LONDON QUOTATIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1913, Page 8

LONDON QUOTATIONS

I (Received February 12, 11.50 a.m.) ! LONDON, 11th February. Stock and eharo market quotations includo:—Australian Mercantile, £94 10s; City of Sydney (repayable in 19l9), £99, WATER POLO WELLINGTON DEFEATS CANTERBURY. Tho water-polo mutch in connection with the competition between AVellihgton and Canterbury, for tho recently-presented NordonCup, was decided nt To Aro Bathf. tins afternoon. Wellington secured victory _by 6 goals to 4, after a very disappointing game. Ilealy (who scored 4 gc«H Capper (2 goal*>), and Smith pia\ed very well ior the local team. The nhclo of tip Canterbury team played good poio, paiiicutarly Atkinson and Rich, who did ipo .scoring. Mr. A. A. Soniervilie wa-i rc<""-ee. The rcrrc.iininir events in the competition —a 700,yUs relay race and diving — will be got oft thk cvpii'iig. ■*.

Contractors in New Zealand are ex- j periencittg difficulty in getting vessels to bring over long lengths of Australian hardwood,- required for the various works which they arc carrying out. Amongst those who have had trouble in that respect are Messrs. Donald M'Lean and Company, of Wellington, who have the contract for extending the Taranakistreet wharf. Mr.. M'Lean recently went •to Sydney to hurry up the tran* sport of the timber, which his firm requires, and he returned to-day with the news that the Union Company's Koro* miko is now bringing across a' quantity of hardwood for the contract. He has arranged for further supplies to be sent over in the near future, and it is hoped that the wharf extension will be comEleted within the next three months, ong lengths of timber for the firm's Waisa, coileries' railway contract, will he shipped to Auckland by sailing vessels. • ; It is'nqtified in our advertising columns that a private home for convalescents from operations, medical eases, et«., has been opened at 62, Oriental Bay.- ,