MINING NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 8

MINING NEWS.

CONSOLIDATED GOLDFIELOS. The following is a copy of a wire received by the Wellington StocK Exchange from the Consolidated Golrltiei'ls yesterday : — "Progress crnshed ions, yielding bullion value £5965; cyanided 2405, value £>938; sulphurets estimated value £088. Wealth of Nations crushed 1820 tons, yielding billion value £2600 ,- cyanided 1340, value £655. Blackwater crushed 3200, yielding bullion value £6809; cyanided 2060 tons, value £215." A wire from S*:** liig River stated : — "Dividend of Is declared to-day; payable Saturday." NEW BIG RIVER. 'A telegram was received by the chairman of the Wellington Stock Exchange to-day, stating that a dividend of Is has been declared in the New Big River Co., cad is payable on Saturday.

Except for a gale of great violence in the English Channel, the weather met -with by the Turakina on the voyage to New Zealand was of a pleasant character, and the passage was entirely destitute of noteworthy incident. The liner had a severe buffeting on her way to Plymouth, mountainous head seas impeding her progress. Her decks were constantly awash, and a gangway lashed to the •hip's rails was wrecked, in addition to which two ports were stove in by the heavy seas. The Turakina lay at Plymouth, for twelve hours awaiting a moderation in the weather. Alter leaving the English coast m rider conditions prevailed, and were the rule thenceforjrard till rew&ig&tf^Zeabnd.