MIXING NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11548, 2 April 1903, Page 3

MIXING NEWS.

A Dunedin telegram states that the Premier Sunrise iMscetovnij clean up for M.rc'.i was lOOoz of smelted god from _>0 ton* of quartz. Tue mister of the Erie'-j-on's Rewar.i Company's riredsre reports that the dim hrd been leaking, ar.d this had c?u.= ed_ r-ome de'ay. It has now been made thoroughly _cht. ard vri-1 enable them to overcome the diih-ulty c-iu-eil by tho small amount of water in the creek and the rising bottom. Fair progress is beir.tr made with the recsirs to tho Trafalgar Cor-iwr.y's _dreflge. v.buh, when put into commi.-wion ogam. sbould york to much better advantage than she has hitherto done. The engine is getting a good overhaul, and the framing i* being properly adjusted, to that the breakages should in future uo-t be near.-? po frequentBefore the master of tho Watier-sor.'e-Ahaura. Company's dredge stopped operations for the purpose cf overhauling, the machinery he dropped a small portion, of tho river side o( tho cut, the winch not being then in good order to work the deep ground. The cut v.-.s being taken cut rg-in last week, however, and in consequence* it was necessury to shift a large quantity of top wash wifhout getting over much of tho bottom. Provided that tho dredgo oan get a- steady run without being troubled by silt, the returns should prove very satisfactory to shareholders.