GOLD RETURNS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 31 March 1913, Page 7

GOLD RETURNS.

.CMUIS FOR FOUR WKKKS. The output of bullion from ihr mince in -the Hanraki PeniniMil;! total* Cin,+!:S 2/2 for the parit four irrolw. The groat bnik of thie comes from mines in the Ohioranuri Couuty, as ftomparaAivelv fc*\v Tetu-rus :rre tf> ihand just now from either Thames or Commandel. The detail** are as- folloTve:— f s. d. Waifri Crand Junction. 7.027 tone !i.470 0 o New Sylvia, S4O tons 1.107 0 n Il.tuniki Keefs, 1- tons Sillj HO ft o Talbiiimn ('.on., S.BOO tons.... 111.a<;) 2 L , N./i. Orowu, 1.201 tons iiMLS Ti (1 Old nauraki, :io tons nil 0 0 Koma-ta Ilepfs, DOO tons 1.04r, o o Wsihi-J'aeroa. !),SOO tons .... LM:5f) o o Royal f)ak tribatora 2GO o O I WaLh-i. 13,etfl tons 13,(ilJ> 0- 0

Total for fonr weeks £30,413 2 i'

The strength of the flood Ude was I responaiblr fnr a mishap to one of the I npvonport Kerry Cornpttny'ri steamers I this mornin,2. I lie Peregrim , »vas coming up to -her berth at No. '2 jetty on the 8 o'clock trip from Devonport, and when of the k.s. Opawa, which in •berthed at (he new Queen Strwt wharf, \thr rip <d lllp inctimilljr tide <i»lH=«d the Peregrine In sheer suddenly. Before Captam (Clarke oould her up again she eoHidfd with the big steamer. Some awning and deck gr«*.ar on the starboard side of the. ferry was carried away, but otherwise slie was undamaged. vSlie eontiniK-d in the ser\iee iliii-injsr the bnsy hours of™tlie morrrinj;, hut was withdrawn shortly atti-r 10 a.m. for repairs. So-rae ha-rr-brained individual in (Jisbonw MmeMerci it- a- ca-pital joke to victimise thp -local jnedk¥K>fri by inwting -fchem to irttend imaginary cases of i>rg*>nt eicknesti. A few days ago a local ilxictoT hastened 4<i respond to a rail to a;ttend ■wjiat was described as an urgent ease over a mile, and a-half from His resicfence. When he arrived the oeeupieT of the d"H"eHiugihouc>e ".vihieh was ineuuoned in itlic mec!Basf<- inrmed lately expiamed t+ia-t -he was ™°i 'the first proetiitioner I that hzxi lieen <-ruelly hoaxed J-hat day jLo her know-ledge. Only .in hour or so ■before a lirolJio.r niedicu bad called at her -hoooe on a similar fruitlos errand. also informed hiru that still another doetoT had .tn.nved up at her house that same morning, only tr> be annoyed to find that he also had been hoaxed.