THE GOLDFIELDS.
WAIOTAHI. As foreshadowed in yesterday's issue the directors of the Waiotahi G.M. Company yesterday afternoon declared another dividend of 10/ per 9hare, payable on February Bth. This Avill make £4SOO paid from the new find in two months. THAMES HAURAKI. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) THAMES, this day. The Hon. Mr McGowan, in a communication forwarded to Thames, advises Mr H. H. Adams to submit his proposal for sinking the Thames Hauraki shaft and pumping to the Drainage Board for their consideration. NEW ECLIPSE. The picked stone coming to hand from the Eclipse mine shows the quartz to be \v«ll impregnated with strong free gold, with an almost entire absence of other mineral. VICTORIAN GOLD OUTPUT. The Mining Department of Victoria has just issued the annual return of gold for 1904, obtaining a yield of 821,----017oz gross, or 765,6000z fine, a slight decrease of 14070z as compared with the output for 1903. The value of the yield is £3,252,045, and the total quantity raised in the State since the inception of records amounts to 65,557,----3530z, valued at £270,002,756.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 29, 3 February 1905, Page 2
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178THE GOLDFIELDS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 29, 3 February 1905, Page 2
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