MINING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 7

MINING NEWS.

WELLINGTON SHAKE MARKET. The mining share market is very consists cnt in its dullness, anci. yesterday, a.sinplo sale of Talisman Consolidated at £2 lis. 6d. cum dividend was all that was recorded. The buying and selling quotations were as under :— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Blackwatcr — - 17 6 Con. Goldflelds — 10 3 Kurauni Caledonian — 0 16 May Queen 0 2 3 0 2-6 New Sylvia 0 3 6 0 3 7 Saxon - ... 0 2 5 0 2 6 Tairua Mines 0 1 11 0 2 2 Talisman h 2 11 0 — Victoria — 0 11 Waihi .. 3 16-320 Wsihi Grand Junction ... 1 7 6 17 9 Waitangi I) 3 2 0 3 4 Waihi-Paeroa, 0 12 6 — The Wellington Stock Exchauso received the following telecr.-im yesterday from the Talisman Consolidated:—Hoard has declared the usual interim dividend of Is. 6d. oh fully paid-ui) shares, payable August 25; transfer books closed August 12. ' STOCK EXCHANGE. (By / Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, Aueust 4. Business done on 'Ohr.ngc this morning:— Jtauraki Reefs (con.), led. Moauatairi, s}d. i W'aitangi. 5.-. !!d. Maoriland, 7d. Vi'aihi, £3 2s. Grand Junction, £1 7s. 6d. South British Insurance, £3 14s. 6d. New Zealand Insurance, £4 lis. The following business was done at the 3.15 p.m. call to-day:— Hay Queen, 2-s. <d. Monowai, Is. Ud. Saxon, 2s. sd. Golden Cross, Hid. Tellurides Proprietary (con.). 45d. Waihi Extended. Is. 7d. , Ilauraki Reefs (con.), IOJd. Northern Steamship (paid-un), 15s. 7d„ 15s. 7d. Auckland C,a3 (old), £3 lis. 6d. \ Christchuroli, Aueust 4. A sale Teportcd on the Stock Exehance of Canterbury to-day wa6 Bank of New Zealand, £12 65./ 6d. Dunedln, Aueust 4. Stock Exrbanse sale:— Electric, 3s. la Sales reported: — New Zealand Drug, £2 10s. 3d. llilburn Lime and Cement, £2 os. 3d.

DREDGING. By Telegraph—l'ross Arsoeiation-Copyrieht Duncdin, Auarust 4. Dredging Returns: Elcctric I. 500z.-4dwt.; Good Chance, 290z.; Centra] Charlton. 200z.; Waikaia, 18oz. lEdvt.; Masterton, 16oz. 4dwt.; Koputai, llioz. 7dwt.; Mystery Flat, Boz. 6ilvyt.

At the Mount Cook I'oliee Court .yesterday, before Mr. Bland, J.P., Annie Laura Heighten, charged with insobriety, was fined 100., in default 48 hours' imprisonment. One first offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged. A good euro and a quick cure, And ,a cure that':, clicnp beside; A safe cure and a sure cure, And a cure that works inside. A nico cure and a sweet cure, . One that works so speedily; Woods' Peppermint Cure for linstv coughs Is the only cure for me.—Advt. The completed census shows that the population of Jamaica is 831,123, being an increase of 91,632 on the Inst census in IS9I.