SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1758, 4 February 1888, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adbl&xdk, February 3. An astounding rise has taken place fa Broken Hill silver mine Company's •hares. On Wednesday night shares were selling at per share, and by noon yesterday they had risen to During the afternoon holders were tsking and though no sales are recorded at that figure, it is impossible to buy below that price. Only £9 has been paid op per share m this mine. Last year the dividends were at the rate of thirty shillings per raonch. No reason is assigned for this fresh rise m the price of Broken Hill shares, but the advance may be due to the anticipated receipts, from the sale cf the portions of part of the leases of the mine to English capitalists. The wheat market is dull at 3s ad ; shippers and farmers lots 2s iod ; for export, 4s; flour, roller made, £$ 15s per ton ; oats, 2s 8d to 2s lod; sugars quiet, prices are firm at last quotations. Letters from Canton merchants, per China Steam Navigation Company's, s.s. Tsin, which is now m quarantine with five cases of smallpox on board, warn their friends here to look-out for smallpox, as it is very prevalent m Hong Kong, Canton and Macao. At Hong Kong, several of the Cable Company's clerki are down with the disease.