WEST COAST NOTES.
(SFECIAL TO "THE PRESS. ) GREY.MOUTH. April 1. Tho Kohinoor Company's dredge broke down during last woek. ujid did cot clean up. Tho E'ernflut Company's dredce, which sank in the BuHot River, near Murchison, about a fortnight, ;igo. ii expected to resume work within a few ds; ?. A -slight vss'.i cut lit the Ros s Pay Dawn Company's dam occurred (lurin-r the heavy rail-, last week, but the. contractor had it repaired. Work is being- delnyed by the r.onarrivo.l of certain portions of the machinery. Tho Golden Ur.itcr* Company's pontoons nl Duffer's Creek have been successfully floated. Tho water was turned m the c'.nm last v.-fek. and sufficiently high to allow of the. floating tn take pi.ace nt 6 o'clock yesterday mornir.r;. Tho machinery is being carted to the c'aim. and the work of erecting it will be started immediately. It i s expected that the dredge will set a. ttart in about six or eight weeks' tim-3.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11548, 2 April 1903, Page 3
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