COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIII, Issue 14349, 15 November 1910, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

RUN ON A BANK.

Press Association—Br Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, No-. IS.

The run on the Birk beck Be. 11k o ?]- tinues. Many depositors stayed up sll ( night, arid thousands were wa't-ing in a queue till closing time on Satur.iay. Four hundred clients paid in moneys. The newspapers insist on the complete solvency of the institution. CRACK IN THE SHIPPING RTNG. The Ocean Steamship and-other companies have obtained an injunction from the Higher Court restraining the P. and 0. Company from lowering the freight between Antwerp and Eastern" ports, wMc-h was fixed under mutual agreement in 1899. INFLUENCING WOOL SALES. The Association of German CottinSpinners and Wool-Combers at a meeting resolved una.niniouslv to suop >rt the proposed division of Australian wool sales into two periods. SHARE MARKET. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Nov. 14. I Stock Exchange sales—Waihi, £6 4s Sales reported-Talisman Consolidated, ±,l 14s; Westport Coal, £6 12s 9d. j Stock Exchange quotationsI Dredging stocks—Blackwater b 8s ; s IQ3; -Electric, b. is 3d; Island : Block, s. Os 3d; Koputai (cum. div.) j b. £1 Is; Olrig, b. Is 3d; Pactolus, b ; 4s. • ' i Mining stocks—Ross Goldfields b. 2s ! 6d, s.-2s lOd; Muddv Terrace s £ L 2s; Consolidated Goldfields b 19s 9d ;S. £1 Is; May Queen b. 3s 3d, s 3s :Sd; New Sylvia, b. 3s. lOd, s. Is: Old : Hauraki, b. 2s 3d; N.Z. Crown b. 4s J 2d, s. 4s 6d; Watchman, b. 3s Id, s. 3s 3M; 'Talisman Consolidated b. £2 13s 6d; Waihi, b. £6 0s 6d, s. £6 4s Cd; Waihi Consolidated, s. 3s 7d; AVaihi Grand Junction, b. £1 lis 3d, s. £1 12s. Investment stocks— (All buyers)— National Bank, £o"'lss Gd; Bank of New Zealand £lO os; National Insurance £1 13fe 6d; U.S.S. Coy., £1 I6s ; Westport Coal Coy., £6 12s 6d; Westport Stockton, Gs 9d; Natjono.li Mortgage Coy. (London reg.), £3 2s; Consolidated Dental, £1 Is 3d. Sellers— N.Z. Coal and .Oil 8s 6d. • SOUTHLAND OATS. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 14. The development in the oat market reported on Saturday was responsible for a considerable briskness at the Bluff grain stores to-dny. No less than i 15,000 sacks of oats for N-ortli Tslaud I ports were taken out of store for sliipI nient by the Wanakn . The Warrimon | also took 600 socks for Wellington and jt-he Uliniaroa 400 sacks for Melbourne: | The last-named vessel also took some 150 sacks of grass seeir).