LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.
[Br TELEGRAPH—OWN COBRESPONDKNT.] Auckland, Friday. Mr Joseph Macky of Auckland, has invente--! and patented a most ingenious contrivance to provide against tampering with cheques. There are three spaces for the figures, coloured differently, one for units, one for tens, and one for hundreds, with three similarly coloured spaces for the signatures of the drawer, thus it will be practically impossible to change a one pound to ten pounds and so on. To-day's quotations: Cambria business done, 8s (id, and Ss 4d :' bnynrs, 8s 3d; sellers, Ss 'id. Saxon : buyers, 3-f (id ; Sellers, 4s. Old Caledonian : buyers, 4s; sellers, os. Trenton : buyers, 2s 2rl ; sellers, 2s 4d. Manulcau: buyers, 2<; sellers. 2s 3d. Moanataiari : sellers, 10m Gd. Alburnia, business done, 3s ; buyers, 2s 10d sellers, 3s. Adelino : buyers, 10d ; sellers, Is. Paroquet: sellers, 4s (id. Gem : Sellers, Is. Golden Drop: sellers, Is fid. Crown : buyers, 2s Gd. Konilworth : Business done, 3s 5d ; buyers, 3s 3d ; sellers, 3s (id. Colonial : sellers, 3s 6d. Fearnought : sellers, Gil. Bank of New Zealand shares are quoted at £11 15.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2465, 28 April 1888, Page 2
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177LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2465, 28 April 1888, Page 2
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