MINING NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 8

MINING NEWS.

PROSPECTS AT BEEFTON. fEX TELEG2IAPH — PBESS ASSOCIAHON.] REEFTON, This Day. Mining prospects in Reefton are very satisfactory. The Consolidated Company's energetic mine development has resulted in very payable new ore bodies being opened up in Nos. 9, 10, and 11 levels, from 1500 to 1900 feet deep. The stone in No. 10 south, is very rich, so rich that it is bagged from the face. There is also so much stone that additional battery power of 15 heads is being constructed, making 35 Head. The Perseverance Mine, up the Mur- j ray creek, once abandoned by the Con- j solidated Company, is now being wbrked under the present management, and good values in the reef are being followed. Crushing recommences at the Progress Mines on Ist February. DREDGING. REEFTON, This Day. Dredging returns :— Pactolus, 33ozT for 113 houre.

Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald. Limited, advertise their extensive auction bale of Irish linen gowls for Thursday, Friday, aud Saturday next, commencing each day at 10.30 o'*iock. The goods are now on view at tlie rooms, Baker's Buildings, opposite the Onion Bank of Australia; and special jjasligfht displays will be held from 7 to 9 o'clock to-night, Tuesday, and Wcdnes- I day evening*. On Wedupeday the firm will sell by order of the holders ol tlie bill of lading, 130 rolls of linoleum, also lioukchold furnishings ; and nn Thursday, at tlie residence of Mr. H. E. Lc Grove, jun., ! 'No. 8, HawfceEtone-srreer. the whole of hit, household furnishingb, commencing at 1.50 o'clock fcharp. j Tho sale of boot* and ehoea will be continued at the Royalty Stores, U t Man-ners-street, all this weak. j