MINING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 10

MINING NEWS.

WELLINGTON SHARE MABKET. The min'DS market was dull yesterday A sale of Waihi at 455. 3d., reported at the rnonrin? call, was the only transaction recorded. The (motations wero as un> der; - mi,™

STOCK EXCHANGE. '. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, September 15. Sales on 'Change:— \ WaitaJigi, Bd. Occidental, 81K ' . Grand Junction, £1 C-?. 6d. Auckland Ga.s, £1 9s- . Christchurch, September 15. Sale<s reported:—Westport-Stooktou Coal, fe 2d.' Dunedln, September 15. The following sales were made on the Stock Exchange to-day:— Wa.ihi Grand Junction. £1. Os. 6d. Union Steam, £2 te 9(1. The following talcs were reported:-?* actional Bank, £5 7s. 6d.; Rise and Shane, £l te '. „ j • Stock Exchange quotations:—Dredging ftocks: Electric, sellers 4s. fid.; ffartlcy and Biley, buyers 3 s., sellers 45.; ilarraherikia, buyers 1?. 3di, sellers 2s. 6a.; Bising Sun. sellers £1 ss. Mining stocks: licss GoldfieWs, buyers 12s. lid., selers 13s. ed.; N.sw Sylvia, buyers 9d., sellers lis. Id.; Old Hauraki. .eeller; 3d.; Saxon, • buyers £d„ sellers 10d. ; Watchman, sellers 35.; Talisman Consolidated,, sellers £2 2s. 6d.; Waihi, buyers £2 ss. . 6d., sellers £2 s*. 9d.; Waihi Grand-Junction, buyers ±1 C--. 3d. tellers £1 C-s. 9d>. Investment stocks: National Bank,' buyers . 75., sellers £. t.H ■ Bank of Kew Zealand, buyers £10 IDs., ee ll e rs £10 15;.: Standard Insurance, eell : e.rs £t 1?«.: U.S.S. Co.. buyers £2.45. 6d., s-Uots £2 We«tport. C6al 00., buyers £1 Bs. ICa.; West port-Stockton, .sellers 4s. l'.d.; Perpetual Trustees Co., sellers £1 2s. 6d.; Milburn. Lime and Cement Co., buyers £1 11-sellers £1 125.; Mosgiel Woollen factory, Hellers £3 125.; New Zealand Drug Co. (£2). sellers .'£2 ss. 6d.; \cw Zealand Portland Cement, buyers 155.M., sellers 16s. 6d.: "Ola.sro Dally Times. huTers £2 12-. 6ci.: Donsighy's Hone <rncl Twine, sellers £1 Ss. 9d.; Wright. Stcpliensom buyers £6 sd. BOSS GOLDFIEIjDP. '(By Telegraph.—l'rpfs Association.) Hokitlka, September 15. Development, work is still proceeding at the Ross Geldfield? mine, but it_ is expected (hot it will be somo time l>o|oro (lie is lifted. A good deal of preliminary work will have to be, accomplished before active mining operations, arc commenced. ■ ,

Homework is regarded by many parents as an unmitigated nuisance, said Mr. Cary Gilson, headmaster of IvingEdward s School, Birmingham, at tho prize distribution, but it performed an educational function that nothing el.-o did. hi Germany it occupied an oral moro important position than in England. It was said that homework consisted in doing work wrong in order to bo told what was right; but in spito of that it consisted in doing something for oneself, in nia king oxpi>rimcnts and taking risks.

Buyer.! hellers. 1 . N £ s. d. £ e. d. Murray Creek (old) 1 6 0 — • Murray Crock (new) 0 6 0 tt ' New Sylvia. 0 0 U 01 2 Ross Reconstructed 0 12 9 0 13 5 Talisman : , *- , ? J S Waihi Grand Junction ... 1 0 6 1 0 9 Waihi 2 5 6 2 6 0 Waitangi 0 0 7 . 0 0 9 Worksop Dredge 3 10 0 — . 'Premium.