MINING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 8

MINING NEWS

WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. Th/irc were no transactions in mining shares on Saturday. The buying and selling quotations were as under:— Buyer,-! Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Tionanza -'- 0 0 2 Crown 0 3 2 — New Svlvia 0 15 - 0 1 6 Occidental - 0 10 Talisman 2 12 9 2 13. 0 Waihi 2 2 9 2 3 3 W.-iilii Grand Junction... 16 9 17 3 Waiotahi — 0 5 5 Waitangi 0 2 2 0 2 4 Worksop Dredge 2 U 0 - Taranaki Petroleum 0 17 ,0 — The course of sales during tho past week was as under:— N.Z. Crown. 3s. 7d. Talisman, 535. 3d., 525. 9d. Vl'ailii. «*., 435. Waihi Grand Junction, 265. 6d., 265. 6d„ 265. 74(1., 275. 3d.. 265. 9(1.. 275.. 275. Waitangi, 2s. 2»d., 2s. 2(1.. 2s. 3d. The Wellington Stock Exchange received the following telegram on Saturday from tho Worksop Dredge:—"Return, 920z. Tor 115 hours." STOCK EXCHANGE, iliy Telegraph—Press Association.! Auckland, February 17. Kusincss done:— Waiotahi, 3s. 4d. Waiki, £2 3s. Hauraki Reefs (con.), 9d. Crown, 3s. 3d. Mountain King, 4rt. Mny Queen, Is. 6il. Auckland Trams (ord.), £1 3s. 9d. Takapuna Trams. 14s. 6d. Cliristchurch, February 17. Sale reported on 'Change:—Manning and Co., £4 10s. ~ Dunoilln, February 17. The following sale w:i3 ma(b on the Stock Exchange to-day:-Milburn Lime, £1 19s. The following sale was reportcd:-N./.. Insurance, -C 4 15s. DREDGING, illy 'I'elccraph -Press Association.'. Dunoilln, February 18. Dredging ri'lurn«: Golden lied. 250-.-.. sdwt.; Itb-c and Shine 11. 2C07„ sdwt.; Oil-is, 70z.16dut. 15grs.

On l-'ridav evening a "Press" ivp"rl«r asked Professor A. P. \V. Thomas of Auckland University College, i, b„ is „t present in I'hrislchurch, regarding a Press Association message published thai, morning, slating that unusual (hernial aclivily had been noticed recently in I ake ifotomaliana. Profess,,,. Thomas saiil Ihe sput menlioned wns near tho sile of Hie terraces which were destroyed, and was not an unlikely place for healing of Urn wafer In appear. Formerly il ims one of Hie most active siiols near llolomaliana. II was knmvn thai a greal body of molten rock had been injected inlii the lissnr<> through bake Taraweva, Kolomahaiia and away beyond YVnimangii. There is therefore a supply of hint Mow, and doubtless the wilier which sinks into Tarn worn limbs its way along I lie fissure and reappears al Ilia lower level. Professor Thomas imagines dial oicing l» (he presence of -oliii rm-li, old solid lava, Ihe spot inilienlod would be a likely one for Ihe waler lo appear, lie div.s not, however, believe thai there .is any need for alanii from Ihe pre.-enl indications.

While Holy's villages are being depopulated through emigration lo Ihe boiled Slales, Spain, it is rruorlcd, is bising •IiO.IIIIO of her best inhabilaii|s every vear through emigration lo South America. In a recent lorluiglil h'nllll Spanish immigrant-, landed in lluenos Ayres alone.

Fashion ha< a slroug grip on Ihe poor as noil us Ihe rich. An altumpl has been made in Kngbiml to inlroduce among (he children of the very poor Ihe Use of wooden shoes such as are Horn in llnllaud and France. Jhvpilo Ihe fuel Unit llus" shoes arc rliean, waterproof, and almrsl indestructible, Ihov have not become I'.oiul-ir. The children preler In wo:-r wn'lclinl IcaHior -ontiieai' miller than endure the ridicule of their compan ton >■