MINING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 755, 2 March 1910, Page 8

MINING NEWS.

WELLINGTON MINING MAEKET. A comparatively, small business was done yesterday. Old Hauraki shares coming in for most attention. Waihi shares changed hands at £9 15s. 6d., ex dividend. The transactions. recorded yesterday were as under:— Old nanrnki, 3s. 4d. (first call); 3s. 6d. (second call); 3s. 6d., 3s. Bd., os. Bid. 3« 9d 3s. 9d., 3s. Bd. (third call). ■>■••• Waihi, £9 15s. 6d. (third call). Waitangi, 2s. (third call). QUOTATIONS. , Buyers. Sellers. Sales. v •„ , „ . £ s ' d ' £"■ d. £s. d. Kuranni Caledonian — 016 — May Queen — 0 4 2 — N.Z. Crown I) 4 10 — — Now Sylvia 03 11 04 1 - Old Hauraki 038 039 038 Saxon _ 016 — —. Talisman .-. 29 0 29 3 — Waihi Gd. June. ... 112 6 113 0 '- Jfaitangi 0 111 02 2 02 0 Blackwater 1.80196 — Con. Goldfields ...... 110 119New Big Eiver 20 0 — _ I 015 0 016 0 _ Ross Goldllelds 07 9 08 0 — STOCK EXCHANGE. AUCKLAND.. ■ (By Tclegraph.-Presa Association.) „ . ' ' Auckland. March 1. Business done at this morning's call of tiie stock Exchange included:— Point Kussell, 4d. . Waitangi, 2s. Watchman, Is. 6d. Hauraki, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10dV Grown, ss. ' Talisman, 495. 6d. Grand. Junction, 335. •' Mountain King, 7d. New Zealand Insurance, 775. Taupiri Coal, 19s. 3d. Kauri Timber (con.), 16s. 4d. DUNEDIN. ui«'i t."v Qunedln, March 1. Stock Exchange sales:— . Old Hauraki, 3s. 7d. Waihi Grand-Junction, 325. 9d., 32b. 9d ,o Sal .° reported:, Waihi Grand Junction, ' : ACTIVITY IN. WESTLAND. EICH QUAItTZ FIND. (By Teleeraph.-Prcss Association.) \r* trr xr- ~ , „ Hokitlka, Mareh 1. Mr. H. L. Michel, Mayor of Hokitika, and Mr. Parham, 0.E., left en route for Sydney lastevcnmg, m the matter of the Toaroha mining scheme, which involves ah expenditure of £2C0,0G0. Tho present mining regulations compelled the syndicate to alter their plans from hydro-electric to gravitation. - - ; . News has just been received of the discovery of a rich quartz find in Donnelly's OreoK, Eoss. No particulars are to hand. WAIHI DIVIDEND. (By Telograph.-Press Association.) m . . ± .~„ Auckland, March L The sixty-eighth dividond was paid to shareholders in tho Waihi Gold Mining Co. to-day. The total dividend was £99,151, of which £28,129 Bs. goes to shareholders in Now Zealand. Tho total amount paid in dividends to date is £3,714,369 6s. Bd.