DREDGING SHARE MARKET.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 June 1901, Page 3

DREDGING SHARE MARKET.

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The following sales were recorded at the Dunedin Stock Exchange to-day ; FROM TO Nelson Creek ... 55s Od 56s Od Bendigo ... ... 22s 6d Gclden Beach ... 23s Od Leviathan ... ... 27s Od Long A r alley ... 28s Od

The annual meeting of the Literary Institution was held at Brunner last evening. Mr John Coulthard (vice-President) occupied the chair and the report and balance-aheet was read and approved of. The following were elected a committee of management for the ensuing year : President, E. Allison, Esq. ; Vice-Presi-dents. J. Coulthard and T. Franklin ; Hon. Secretary, Eobert Guild; Committee—Messrs Noble, Jackson, Walker, Masters, Watchman, McCormack, Muncaster, Newton, Scott, and E. Moth. It was unanimously resolved that a hearty vote of thanks be accorded to Mr A. Eyan, late secretary to the institution, for his services and a donation of three guineas be voted to him. It was resolved that ten pounds worth of new books bo ordered from Scotland. The spectators at a football match at Tahuna Park, Dunedin, last Saturday were provided with a novelty in the shape of a course between a greyhound and a rabbit, which took place during the progress of the game and on the actual field of play. Bunny was started in the neighbourhood of the cattle 'sheds, and careering on to the ground, ran between the legs of a Southern three quarter who was waiting to receive the ball. The player in question made a nervous but useless kick at the rabbit, and a greyhound belonging to ono of the spectators then appeared on the scene and gave chase. After a short course bunny was captured by his pursuer. The United States warship, Brooklyn, at present at Wellington, has been thrown open to the public, many of whom visited her last week. The vessel was, says our Wellington correspondent, to have been elaborately prepared and decorated for Eear-Admiral Eeney’a party on Saturday night. There was dancing on deck, and the warship waa a blaze oi electric light,

To ensure due secrecy in connection with the printing of certain matter, the rules of the Government Printing Office just gazetted provide that Ministerial statements and memoranda, customs tariff alterations, policy measures, and all work of a strictly confidential character shall, when practicable, be enfrused only to members ct the permanent staff. Should the extent or urgency of the work, .however, require a wider distribution, it shall bo the duty of the overseers to confine it to as few hands as possible. Any employes who may reasonably bo sus pected of divulging information of a confidential nature shall bo suspended, and should proof be forthcoming he shall be at once dismissed by the Government.

Dunedin, This Day. Sligo Brother report the following quotations to-day: : — Grey River ... 17s 6d 22s Od Leviathan ... ... 20s 9d 27s Od Mosquito ... par 2s 104 .Nelson Creek . ... 55s Od 56s Od Reeves’ Proprietary 12s Od 14s Od Trafalgar ... Nil 6s 6d Wareatca ... Nil 2s 6d

Wellington, This Day. The following are the quotations at the Wellington Stock Exchange to-day:-Amikitia, sellers Os 6d Callaghans Creek, sellers ... 5s Od Kohikohi, sellers ... 6s Od Leviathan, sellers ... 29s Od Mosquito, buyers ... 2s Od „ sellers ... 3s Od No Town Creek, sellers par Shellback, sellers ... par Woodstock, buyers ... 2s 6d