The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-10
MINING SPECULATION IN NEW
 ZEALAND.


 The influence of the Hauraki mining revival has made itself more or less felt in all the big commercial centres throughout the colony, but nowhere, naturally, to the same extent as in the city of Auckland, which has the gold fields, so to speak, almost at it's doors. When the Hauraki mines were in their shining prime, many years ago, Auck- flanders rushed to the Coromandel in such number that there were scarcely vessels enough in the harbor to take them across there. In the boom" now on, instead of focking to the Coroman- del they flock to the Auckland stock exchange, where to meet the excited rush, @ free" stock exchange was established for a time Never in the annals of Auckland has there been such a floating of new companies, and such a tremendous traffic in shares as within the last eighteen months or so. Never have Auckland brokers had such a busy time. To cope with the necessi- ties of their situation, a. new association of brokers has been formed, and the old greatly reinforced But still the busi~ ness to be overtaken has compelled them to work to such late hours that the labor inspector has deemed 1t his duty, in the interests of the clerks, to occasionally make a midnight raid on the ock-brokers' offices. The share Hct ho tn q n c extent that it takes an hour and a half to ''calP' it over. It is also found ne- cessary to have three "calls'' daily, the first at 9:30 am. Knots of eager-faced eager-voiced men throng the part of the exchange open to the public, and there you may see a broker, prosperous and well ll-groomed in aspect in earnest standardization with a. rough looking miner, in Crimea skirt and bell-bot- toned trousers the Sir Crackle of the moment, just over from Coromandel with the graphic details of the latest bit of mining news. All over the town the talk is of mining topics. In the city restaurants in the lunchinghours, any chance words distinguishable above the general hum of conversation are sure to relate to mining matters. When friends meet in the street they exchange instead of remarks about the weather straight ''tips" in regard to their favorite mining shares. In the trans taking the business men back to their homes in the suburbs there is always a rapid and large exchange of pennies and papers when the newsboy enters with his bundle of Evening Stars, and then the eyes of all the men seek, with comical sinuItaneity, the column with the latest share quotations in theil repective papers.
 Even the women have caught the fever of mining speculations, and it is said that at afternoon teas they discuss rises and falls in the share market in a very knowing way, while they com miserate with poor Mrs. K, whose shares in the Never Say Die" have dropped to fourth of what she paid for them and congratulate Mrs. Y. on having sold yesterday, at ten and sixpence, the 800 Golden Hopes" she bought last week at a shilling. Their sex is already represented on the exchange; but 2 lady stock-broker can only be regarded as a natural phenomenon in the first country in her Majesty's dominions that has given it's women the fran chise and produced lady Mayor Chambers Journal