MINING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2440, 20 April 1915, Page 8

MINING NEWS

WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. Murray Creek (new) shares were reported to have been sold at £1 12s. 6d. on tho Exchange yesterday. Quotations wcer as under Buyers. Sellers. >r -r,- £S' d- £6. d. New Big River 4 8 0 4 10 0 Talisman 14 6 — Waihi _ 2 4 0 Grand Junction — 16 0 Waitangi 012 g ] f | STOCK EXCHANGE. (By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) „ , m Auckland, April 19. sale.—Talisman, 245. 6d. ™ , „ . , Dunedln, April 19. .The following sales were made on the Stock Exchange to-day :-Talisman Consolidated, £1 55., £1 4s. 9d.: Waihi Grand Junction, £1 ss. 9d. The following salea were reported:— Otago Daily Times," £3; Auckland Trams (pref.), £1 10s. 6d.; Auckland Trams (ord.), £1 2s. The Stock Exchange quotations aro as folio wDredging shares-Electric, sellers 3s. 6d.: Hising Sun, buyers £1 2s„ sellers £1 ss. Mining Shares.—Talisman Consolidated, buyers £1 4s. 8d„ sellers £1 4s, lid.; Waihj. sellers £2 55.; Waihi Grand junction, buyers £1 ss. 7d„ sellers £1 65.; Mount Lyeil, buyers £1 6s. 6d., sellers £1 7s. 6d. Investment Shaxes.—National Bank, buy. ers £5 9s. 6d.; Bank of Is T ew Zealand (old), sellers £11-35.; Union Bank, buyers £56 lSs.« JjAtionel Insurance, sellers £2 lis.; South British Insurance, sellers £4 165.; TJ.S/S. £?• 4s. 2d., selers £1 4s. 6d.; U.S.S. Co. (pref.), buyerß £1 os. 9d.; westport Coal, buyers £1 12s. 9d.; Taupiri Coal, buyers 145., sellers 14s. 9d.; Dominion Rubber, buyers 155., sellers 17s. 6d.; Mosgiol Woollen Factory, buyers £3 15.: New Zealand Portland Cement, buyers 6s. 10d„ ell. crs 7s. 9d.; Auckland Electric Trams (ord.), buyers £1 Ib. 10rl., sellers £1 2s. 3d.: Whitcombs and Tombs, buyers £6; Wright, Stephenson, buyers £6 10s. ' WAIHI BEEPS GIGANTIC. The mine manager of the Waihi Reefs Gigantic, in lus report on operation* at the mine for the four days, April 6 to 10. ; states that the advancement for the four nays has been 6ft. in north crosscut <ind 9ft. in S.E. end, making total driven north of?/? mi ksft., and south from chamber r t* c ? un try in north face continues to be hard, but is more blocky and interlaced with, silica veins and mineral h«ads6ome of the heads are dischaTffinc a little water. In the S.E. face there is no change ' tbe country being penetrated is a. mild andosite. The surveyor has taken measurements and bearings of the underwork, and is preparing a working plan. All machinery is working well.