THE SHARE MARKET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7665, 29 June 1896, Page 4

THE SHARE MARKET.

i — - — » - i Auckland, Saturday night. | To-day's sales were :— Broken Hill lid, fQardigau 2s, Freedom 4d, Golden Point 3s 6d. Puru 6s 4d, Sheridan Is 7d, Victoria 3s lid, Balfour lOd, Great United 55d, Jupiter 6s 3d, Kaipai Vermont 10s 7d, | Maori Dream Is Bd, Maoriland 2s Id, : Alpha 8s 6d, Grace Darling 2s lOd, "Ber;cules Is 7d, Imperial 2s 7d, Ivanhoe ls 14d, New Zealander Bd, Portsea ls 6d, [Talisman Extended 3s 2d, Victor 4s 9d, Waihi Consols Is 3d, Waihi Silverton 665, Waitekauri No. i 7s, Ward Proprietary 6d, Wealth of Nations ls 4d, Bay View ls 6d, Golden Hill Extended 6d, Hauraki No. 2 2s 4d, Katie B£d, Morning Star 9d, New Golconda ls 4d, Hauraki North Contributed 4s, New Tokatea ls 4d, Pride of Tokatea ls 10d.— Markham and South. Mr Williamson, of the Students' Volunteer Missionary Union, says that if Christians " afc home " were to spare for the foreign field oue in every hundred of their number, there would be a force of nearly a million missionaries. But the evangelisation of the world could be secured if they were to . spare one in every 800. VVith 60,000, the world could be evangelised in a generation -33 years. The money needed was L 14 .500,000. The Pharisees gave one-tenth of their income, but the average Christian to-day gives only one tenth of one per cent, of his. Taking one-half of the communicants cf the Protestant Churches, from which to raise the money, it would mean less than a half-penny a day for each of them to contribute. " Threepence a week, and you have the money and a million to spare I" The late Colonel North onoe described his courtship thus : - " My wages were 18s a week. I was in love with a girl who was working in a neighboring factory in Hunslet, Leeds. We'd had many a talk : about getting married, but when I was , only getting 12s a week, and she was only getting eight, we came to the conclusion that it wouldn't do. « So I said, 'My lass, ahm reyt fond of tha, and the moment I get a ri6e in screw we'll risk it, and we'll face the world, lass, for good or for ill.' She gave me a hug and kissed me, and from that day to this she's been my best : adviser, friend, and comforter." A Suuderlaud steamer of 3000 tons, the : Coquette, a fine boat, had an exciting adventure off the Canadian coast last month. She lost her propellor in some icefields, and lay helpless for ten days until another steamer oame to her assistance and towed her to Halifax. Numerous great ioebergs were in olose proximity aud threatened to crash down upon the vessel. The rescuing steamer has put in a claim of 50,000d01s for the tow. The Rev. H. Price Hughes asked his stewards to classify the coins given in the collection at one of his Sunday afternoon Conferences in St. James' Hall. The result was as follows : -Two half crowns, 19 shillings, 168 sixpenoes, 128 threepenny bits, 1661 pennies, 322 half-pennies and 7 farthings. The Methodistj Times says : "Asa rule it is the poor who help by their multitudinous gifts ta swell the large total." An American journal devoted to poultry matters, in recommending the uniting of poultry raising and fruit culture on a 10 aore block, says : — "A profitable subdivision for such a small farm would be four acres planted to orchard, twe acres devoted to small fruits, two acres devoted to general gardening, proper buildings, etc, two acres in well-kept horse and cow pasture, which should be divided into two lots, which could be grazed alternately." The poultry farm-orchard combination has been found to work splendidly in New South Wales. The Hon. Richard Seddon and President Kruger ought to shake hands. Their views with regard to the press are identical. Mr Leonard, the President of the Reform Committee of Johannesburg, tells us in the New Review that the " free " newspapers there are gagged by a press law from the operation of which the newspapers supported by the Government are expressly exempted. Ho says : "In respect of the last extraordinary provision it is fair to add that it is notorious that the Government subsidises journals, and the State Secretary once defended this oourse by the startling statement thafc ' as soon as journals wrote in favor of the Government they became unpopular, and therefore it was just to compensate them.' Uuder Mr Kruger's Aot such journals might publish anything about anybody, and incur uo responsibility j but the independent journal would nofc dare to expose an abuse, as ifc would be debarred from pleading the truth and the public good." This coincides so exactly with the views of the Premier and the Minister of Lands that we suggest they should send for a copy of that Aot. — H.B. Herald. The extraordinary aotivity in the cycle trade^ haa produced something like an industrial revolution in Birmingham. The manufacturers found that they were understaffed. Tempting offers were made to experienced mechanics in other trades, with the result that thousands of men have left their usual occupations to become cyclemakers. As trade generally is exceptionally good, tho Bcaicity of workmen has seriously handicaped manufacturers, and some branches of trade are paralysed. There are no men to fill the vacancies that have be.en caused, and scores of factories have been robbed of workmen. Gunmakers bave -Buffered severely. The amount paid by the West Australian Government to New Zealand for the 150 waggons taken from Lyttelton and Wellington by the barque Alcostis last week was L 12.00. "For rheumatiam I have found nothing equal to Chamberlain's Fain Balm, It relieves the pain as soon as applied. J. W. Ifoung, West Libeity, W. Va." The prompt relief it affords is alone worth many times the cost. Its continued use will effect a permanent oure. For sale by E. D. Smith, wholesale and retail agent. — Advt.