WEST COAST NOTES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11461, 20 December 1902, Page 5

WEST COAST NOTES.

(special to "the press "\ GKKYMOU'HI, Dfcomlcr 19. Wliat tlredgua <iv w:\.-h up to-morrow are likely to show advanced returns. A few of the niuchinc.4 will cios , .- down, und r.ot wash up till January sth, but a liiimocr will continJP till Wi'ii'iu-j'.lay night. The M<sori Kin;,' Company , h dreda-c is workbi? steadily, and is expected to show &n improvement." The Xe!so:i Creek division of dredges will ihow an advance, ultliouirh t'ni> Victory and . Companies' machines have both got I deal of silt to contend with. Buller Junction shares changed hands yesleiday at las. DUXEDIX, December 19. The A;d:n-ja Conjpariy's drtdap has )n<J a now friction pan clutch put in the yrinch. The Victory Company'reports no improvement in the wash. The Cornwall Company has cleared enough bush to lost for three or four months' dredgThe "VVatterson'a Ahaura Company's dredge is still meeting with soft bottom. The Trafalgar Company's dredge has Leen cmecinp out into {Tie Try Again Terrace, where tnere la a siiglit improvument in the wash. The depth runs from 30ft to .'i.'Jft, and thcro ire not the number of bou'dere in it as 'been met before. The Ericksou's Roward Company's dredge it having a good run. She has got, through the worked ground, and should have no r. ore trouble from that source. Everything Ss ■Working well.