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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11952, 29 April 1902, Page 4

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LONDON'. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. London, April 27. CoFPßr.:Spot and three months, 52}. Tin :. Spot, 129£; three months, 1253. Lead, 11*. Hemp is quiet. Fair Wellington Febru-ary-April shipment, 35J. Chests: New Zealand, 17a. ■Butter, 104s to 106s. Leather and btrili unchanged. Rabbit skins: Small supply and quisit trade. Thin pelts have advanced a halfpenny; stout have declined a halfpenny. Mutton: All classes of Now Zealand and River Plate have advanced 146. lamb; Prime Canterbury. 5 l-16d; fair average, including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and tioonoary Canterbury, 1 13-16 d. New Zealand beef, 18011) to 1201b fair average quality ox fores, 4Jd: hinds unchanged. Silver, Is 11 13-16 d. AOXMT-OENEKAI/8 CABLE. [IVY TBI.EQBAPH.-— ASSOCIATION-.] Wkit.incto.v, Monday. Tin- following cable has been received from the Agent-General, dated London, April 26: —"The mutton market is firm, but trade is slow. Tito average prices to-day are: — Canterbury, 3Jd; Dunediu, Southland, and W.M.E. Co.. 3jdj other North island mutton, 3jjd. The lamb market is weak. Shipments now arriving are very heavy. No alteration in lamb or beef prices since last week. Buyers of butter are holding back, expecting prices to go lower. The price today is 105s. Cheese is very firm at 565. Hemp, depressed, £36, nominally; May and ■Inly shipments, £33. There is a better demand for cocksfoot seed; New Zealand, 171b standard, 475." AUCKLAND STOCK EXCHANGE. BUSINESS DON!.—New Zealand Insurance. £3 13a 6(1; May Queen Extended, Set; Koroatu Reef*. l» 2it; Maratoto, ad; Talma Broken Hills, lbs, 10s 3d. BUYERS.—New Zealand Insurance, 735; National Insurance, 204 6dj Standard Insurance. 16s 9d; Key/ Zealand Accident Insurance. 25<t; Hikurangl Coal, 891 Taupiri Coal Mines, Limited, 18s 3d; Auckland this, old. .£l3 16a 6d; Uishorne Oas, 32*; Northern Steamship, contributing, 7» 3d; MUchelaon Timber Co., 16s; D.fa.U., Limited, 9s'Gd; Milne and Choyce. Limited, preferential, 22s 6d ; Kuninui-Calodonian. 6d; May Qneen Hauvaki, 6d; May Queen Extended, 7d; Monowai, 2s; Crown, lis; Koriiata Beefs, la Id; Maratoto, 7d : Tairua Broken Hills, 9s 6d; Walhi Extended, Is lOdj WaiteUanri, 3m 6d. BKUBKS.-Bank of New Zealand, 61s; Nationallnsurance. 21s; South. British Insurance, 83a 6d; New Zealand Accident Insurance, 26s 6<l; Hikurangl Coal, lis 4dj Auckland Gas, new (£4 lOaj. £$• Northern Steamship, paid up, 17s; Northern Steamship, contributing, It 6(1; Devonport Steam Perry, 425; Mitchelson Timber Co . 17a; Avondala Brick and Pottery 22* 6d; D.B.C. Limited. 9* Bd. Broken HID, 3dj"Karariui.'6d; Kurunui-Culedonian. 10dj May Queen Hanraki 8d; May Qneen Extended, 8d; Monowai, 2s 4d; Walotahi, 255; Welcome Jack, contributing, <Wj To Puke Gold Beefs,

2a sd; Chelmsford, 2a; Crown, lis 6d; Koraata Reefs, Is 3d; Mai-Kioto, 9d; Rising Sun. 6d- Tairna Broken Hills, 10* 6d; Waihi. £5 16s": Waihi Beach United. 4d: Waihi Consolidated, sd; Waihi Consols, 3d; Waihi Extended, 2s Id; Waihi South. 6d; Waftekauri. 4s fid; Woodstock. 2«. G. A. BtmTiS, Chairman. W. H. O. Johnston; Secretary. 3.15 p.m., April 23, 1902. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. Calls made. „ .„ £ a. d. Date. Karanui G.M. Co.. April 15 ... 0 0 1 May 6 Thames Talisman O.M. Co.. April 19 ... 0 0 1 May 3 Rising Sun, April 19 ... 0 0 0J May M Bunker's Hill, April 24 ... 0 0 3 May 22 Dividends: „ Bus. Mitchelson Timber Co. ... 10 per cent. Now. Imperial G.M. Co., in liquidation - ■■• - ow -