MINING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1870, 2 October 1913, Page 10

MINING NEWS.

WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. Tile feature of the mining market yesterday was the strong upward movement in Ross Reconstructed, which sold at 16s. 2d., 16s. 4d., and Ife. 9d. at the morning call, at at 17s. at the aftornoon call. Tho only other transaction recorded was a- sale of Waihi at 49?. 6d., reported at the after* noon sitting. Tho quotations were as under Buyers. Sellers. £ 5. d. £ e. d. Blaokwater 10 6 — Kuranui Caledonian 0 16 — New Sylvia 0 0 11 — Ross Reconstructed 0 16 U 017 1 Saxon 0 0 8i — Talisman 2 2 0 — 'Waihi Grand Junction ... — 12 9 Waihi 2 9 3 2 10 0. Waitaugi 0 0 7 0 0 85 The "Wellington Stock Excliarig© received Mie-following telegrams 3*esterday:— Ross Reconstructed—Shoot into Oaesin|« un required height; putting sets into position. New Big River—Fifty-fifth dividend Is. declared, payablo October J. STOCK EXCHANGE.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) \ Auckland, October 1. The following sales were made on tho Stock Exchange to-day:— . Union Steam, £2 6s. 3d. .Saxon. 9d., 9£d. 1 Ross Goldfields, 16s, 7d., 16s. 9d., 16e. lCd., J7s.. 17s. Id., 17s. 2d. Jlauralii Reefs (con.), lid. ■ Komuta Reefs, l*d.. 2:i. Waihi, £2 9s. 6d., £2 10s. Id. Grand Junction, £1 6d., £1 2s. 3d., £1 2s. 6d.

The following ealed were reported:—Wilson'6 Portland Cement, £1 Bs. 3d.; New Sylvia, Is. /

A report from Paris skates that Gaston, Bonnier recently submitted to the Nor tional Agricultural Society of France samples of a Ufiw vegetable ivory made from the albumen of the fruit of a, certaan small palm (of the genus Hyphaena, tribe' Borassus) growing in tho forests of French. Sudan. The albumen hardens on exposure to the air, and it resembles natural ivory in colour and texture 1 . This product is 'said to Tesemble the vegetable ivory from another palm (Phytelcphafi llacrocarpa) found in oquatoriaJ South America.