MINING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 10

MINING NEWS.

WELLINGTON SHAKE MABKE^. The mining market was quiet yesterday. No transactions were recorded at the forenoon call. In the nftenioon eale6 were reported of Talisman at 455. and Waihi Grand Junctions at 255. 7d. Tho quotations were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ 9. d. £ s. d. Blackwater 10 0 — Maoriiand 0 0 5 — Murray Creek (old) 116 0 v — Murray Crcok (new) 0 16 6* — Montezuma 0 15 0 — New Sylvia. 0 0 11 — Boss Heconstructed 0 13 ' 6 0 14 0 Talisman 2 5 0 2 5 6 Waihi — 218 9 Waihi Reefs — 0 2 2 Waihi Grand Junction ... 1 5 6 15 9 ■Waitangi 0 0 6 0 0 7J Success Dredge 014 0 — Taranaki Oil — 012 0 •Premium. STOCK EXCHANGE. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, October 16. The following talcs wore made on the Exchange to-day:— Waihi, £2 19s. (two parcels), £2 19s. 6d., £2 18s 6d„ £2 18s. 3d., £2 18s. Waihi Grand Junction, £1 ss. 9d„ £1 ss. 6d, (two parcels). Boss Goldficlds, 13a. 6d. (two calls), 13e. 5d., 133. Bd., 13s. 9d., and 14s. Sales reported:—Devonport Steam (new isues), 135.; Waihi Beefs Consolidated. 2s. 3d.; Saxon, lid. (two parcels); Kuranui, Bid.; Kuranui Caledonian, 6d.; May Queen, 3d.; Victoria, IJd.; Rising Sun, lid, Dunedln, October 16. Tho following salo was mado on the Stock Exchange to-day:—Wa.ihi, £2 19s. Sales reported:—Waihi Grand Junction, £1 ss. 2d., £1 sa. 3d.; Union Stoam (pre!.), 19s. 9d.

In ;a short timo Auckland will havu a certain number of trtinicars running iu couples on tho lines. Amongst its rolling-stock the company lias 24 small cars. These are each licensed to hold 40 passengers, whereas the cars of moro recent date may carry G6 passengers .The small cars, according to the "Horaid," have been found inadequate to meet requirements, especially at rush hours, and the company has imported special coupling gear to like thoso cars up in pairs. Only one motonnan will therefore be required. Two conductors, one for each car, will he necessary. Combined, the two small cars will hold 80 passengers, and thus ho equal in tins respect to the doubledeckers. Tho first of the coupled cars has boon inspected by tho Public (Works engineer.

Something in tho nature of a beef famine existed in Greymouth on Monday. Tho shipment of cattle which canio to hand by tho Defender from Jackson's Bay, comprising 70 head, turned out to be chielly forwdrd store bullocks instead of prime beef, tho remit being that several butchers in town were without the needful supply for their customers. Considerable difficulty, tho "Press's" correspondent states, is being experienced by the trade' i liobtaining supplies of beef, eveil at extreme- prices, and supplies which in former years wero plentiful in the North Island districts are now not readily obtainable, and altogether tho butchers' lot on tho coast at the present time is not a happy ono.

Tho havoc causud by opossums was described in a letter received by tho Auckland Acclimatisation Society oil Tuesday evening (says tho "Herald"). Tho writer stated that tho opossums came down his chimney and ate the food off tho table; that tho yswarmcd round his fruit trees in hundreds every night, Jeaving nothing but bare branches; and that root »nd other crops wcro totally dostroyed by them. Ho asked tho society not to be too kind to the opessuni. As the correspondent failed to givo Ills name or any indication as to whoro ho lived, tho society could only formally, recoive the letter. Doubt was expressed as to whether the writer lived in the Dominion or was talking of his experiences in Australia.

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