MINING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 10

MINING NEWS.

WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. As was expected a strong ■ upward movement in Waihis set in yesterday, an advance of ss. being recorded in the afternoon. The "shorts", are, of course, laments ing the rise, but no one will feel disposed to waste much sympathy on them. Talismans and Grand Junctions were als« firm. The sales recorded were as under:—. '

Saxon, Is. 7d. (first call). ' Talisman, 525., 525.. 3d., 625. 6d. (third call). . Waihi, £9 ss. (first call), £9 ss. (second 'call), £9 6s. 6d„ £9 Bs. (third call). Waihi Grand Junction, 30s. -6d., 31s. (first call). Eoss Goldfields, 9s. Hirst call), 9s. (third call). QUOTATIONS. Buyers. Sellers. ' Sales.. £s. d. £b. d. £s. d Dominion 0 0 1 — — Kuranui Caled'n ... 0 1 3 0 1 6 — May Queen 0 4 10 4 3 — N.Z. Crown - 0 5 0 — New Sylvia HU I SI — Old Hauraki " 0 3 8 0 310 — Saxon 0 17 0 18 0 17 Tairua, Broken Hills 0 12 0 14 — Talisman 212 6 213 0 212 6 Waihi 980 986 980 Waihi Extended ...• 0 3 3 - — Waihi G'd Junction 111 3 112 0 111 0 Waitangi ....: 0 2 0 — — Watchman 0 18 — ■ — B'.ackwater 110 0 — — Con. Goldfields 1 1 3 ''1 2 0 - New Big River ... — 2 0 0 — Progress 013 6 — ' — Eoss Goldfields ....... 0 8 9.-093 0 -9,0STOCK EXCHANGE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, April 5. The following business was done on the Stock Exchange this morning:— May Queen, 4s. 3d. Victoria, Is. 3d. Waiotahi, 4s.

Watchman, Is. 9d. Hauraki, 3s. 9d. . v , Mount Welcome, 6d. Royal Oak (con.), Is. Id. Waihi, £9 85..6 d. to £9 9s. 6d. Grand Junction, 31s. 9d„ 325. Bank of New Zealand, £9 17s. National Bank rights, 335., 345. • Westport Coal, £6 7s. 6d. Northern Steam (con.), 6s. 7d. The following business was done at the afternoon call:—. Dixon's (p.u.), 4d. Waiotahi, 45..1 d. Old Hauraki, .3s. Bd, Champion, 4d.i Crown, ss. Karangahake, Id. Tairua Monarch, 3d. ' . Waihi, 189s. 6d. Waihi Grand Junction, 31a. 9d. Mountain King, lljd. New Zealand Insurance, 775. South British Insurance,- 60e. Tonson Garlick, 17s. 6d. Wilson's Portland Cement, 475. 6d. Dunedln, April 5. Stock Exchange sales:— Waihi, £9 6s. Waihi Grand Junction, 315., 31s. 3d. Reported 6ales:— . , Old Hauraki, 3s. Bd., 3s. Bd.' 1 Waihi Grand Junction, 31s. . Westport Coal, £6 ss. Central Oharlton, 2s. 3d. National Insurance, 28s. 9d.', 28s. 9d. ft

NEW BIG KITES. .' *> (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Reef ton, April 5. • New Big River return:—364 tons, yielding 350pz. The battery cyanided 300 tons of, Band; yielding'6ooz., the • estimated value being £1535. .-.■■'.; CONSOLIDATED GOLDFIELDS. v The following is a copy • of a wire received by. the Wellington Stock Exchange from the Consolidated ..Goldfields, yesterday :—"Progress crushed 4354 tons, yielding bullion value £5965; cyanided 2405, value £938; Eulphurets estimated-'Value £688. Wealth of Nations crushed 1820 tons, yielding bullion value. £2600; cyanided 1340, value £655. Blackwater 'crushed 3200 tons, yielding bullion value £6809; cyanided 2050 tons, value £215.". A wire froin New Big River stated:—"Dividend of Is. declared today; payable Saturday.".

As a,result, of the high food prices in Canada; large quantities of farm produce' are being imported from foreign countries. Six thousand dozen Russian eggs were received in one day at Montreal. European, eggs are being-imported into tho .United States for the first time for five years.

A railwayman, whose wife and children,, disappeared in the- Messina enrthquake,' marned again ten months >'. latef. j"A' few days ago he was startled 1 , by- the return of 'his first wife, who that she was rescued, badly-wounded, by Russian sailors and taken on.a.cruiser to Russia, whence she had returned'after a slow recovery. As she ; could.not write and did not, speak Russian she' had been unable to communicate with, her .husband.