AUCKLAND NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 30

AUCKLAND NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, February 3. The Waihi Gold Mining Company has declared another dividend (the sixtieth) of 3s 6d per share, payable on March 2 next. This will absorb the sum of £86,783, and will bring the amount paid out to shareholders to the date named to £2,926 215. There being at present 124,457 shares held by colonial shareholders, the latter will receive £20,780 out of the dividend now declared. The Talisman Consolidated Company has declared another dividend (the twelfth) of Is per share, payable on the 10th insfc. The- £15.000 thus set apart for reimbursement to shareholders will bring the amount so reimbursed since, the reconstruction of the company to £180,000. More than two-Ihirds of the 300.000 shares in the company are now held by shareholders | on the colonial register, the actual holSing | here, according to the latest available figures, I being 223,000. Of the £150,000 to be distributed, therefore £11,150 will go to colonial shareholders. The superintendent oi -the Talisman mine has received a cablegram from the boa-ret of directors in London authorising the purchase and erection of a power plant, which will be sufficient for all probable requirements. The estimated cost of the plant is about £18,500.