THE SHAREMARKET. Auckland, May 23.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 371, 25 May 1889, Page 5

THE SHAREMARKET. Auckland, May 23.

Bank of New Zealand— Sellers, £8 Is, new National Bank — Buyers, 36s Colonial Bank— Buyers, 43s 6d New Zealand Insurance — Buyers, 77s ; sellers 78t South British Insurance— Business done. 10s; sellers, 41s Colonial Insurance— Buyers, 44s Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile— Business done, 67s 3d ; scllei'3, 68s Coromandel Steamship Company— Buyers, 7s 9d Accident Insurance— Buyers, 7s 6cl Northern 800t — Sellers, 10s Cambria— Sellers, 3s 5d Saxon— Business done, 10s : buyers, 9s 9d ; sellers, 11s 3d Trenton — Business done, 4s 3d, 4s sd ; buyers, 4s ; sellers, 4s 3d < Adeline— Jbsuyers, 6d Crown— Sellers, 6s 9d Kenilworth— Buyers, 4s 2d ; sellers. 4s 6d Silvcrton— Buyers, 9d ; sellers, Is 3d Colonist— Sellers, 2s 6d ' ' ' May Queen— Buyers, 7d »

Yes ! It is certainly true. Auk any o your friends who have purchased there" Garlick and Cranwell have numerous unasked for and very favourable commendations from country customers -on their excellent packing of Furniture, 1 Crockery, and Glass, &c. Ladies and gentlemen about to furnish should remember that Garlick and Cran well's is the Cheap Furnishing Warehouse of Auckland. * Furniture to suit all classes ; also Carpets, Floor Cloths and all House Necessaries.' ' If your now house is nearly finished, or' you are going to get manied, visit Garlick and Cranwell, Queen-street and Lome-street, Auckland. Intending purchasers ban have a catalogue sent free. The usual monthly meeting of the AntiPoverty Society was held last evening in the Cook-street Hall. The President, Rev. E. H. Gulliver, occupied the chair, and an able and interesting paper on "Land Nationalisation and Co-operation " was read by Mr E. C. Purdie, who, while fully admitting the justice and necessity of Henry George's plan 01 land reform, ui - ged that some form of co-operation would be found to bo essential to enable the world to fully profit by it. The reading of the paper was followed by an animated discussion, in which Messrs Kelly, Platb, Greenwood, Batty, Warburton and several strangers took part. A smart passage-at-arms occuned between Mesbis Kelly and J. Gordon, the latter gentleman maintaining the good old orthodox idea that the landowner has a right •' to do as he will with his own," while the former as stoutly maintained modern heresy that no man has a right to hold land except in such a way as shall conduce to the common good of all, and "instanced the depopulation of the Scottish Highlands as an abuse of power which no "pleading of parchments " could ever justify. The Chairman, in his closing remai'ks, urged that this question of the use of the earth * should be dealt with in a broad and comprehensive spirit, and that the claim of the individual must be subject to the paramount claims of the community. Sir Somers Vine, the delegate of the Council of the Imperial Institute, arrived at Dunedin by the Waihora yesterday, and will at once proceed to Wellington to give his credentials to the Governor and Premier, and request the co-operation of the Government in supplying information regarding the trade and commerce to the Intelligence Department of the Institute. He is not asking for money, but for collections of products of districts, which it ia intended to keep up to date. ■> He will visit the diflorent commercial centres,, and pro, bably deliver explanatory speeches,