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Evening Star, Issue 7344, 17 October 1887, Page 3

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The amount of revi nue collected at tho Customhouse on goods cleared t.?lt>y for consumption was L9IC 4s 3d. Mr Montagu Pym offer.- d by auction to-day a cirgo of Qnc;nslnnd sugar ex E'Jith May. The attendance of the trado was full, :md every lino sold—finest whit sup to L2O; fine whites and groys, L 18; soft counters, LIC 1 lis. The few linos of damaged sugar will be sold by Mr l'ym on Wednesday at eleven o'clockMINING NOTES. The ' Western Star • states that Messrs Logan and Spence (representatives of Logan's Patent Goldsaving Company, of Ballarat), after inspecting tho claims at Round Hill, decided to c.-cpb machinery to work the sludge claim there. Mr Andrew Murphy obtained a i'z nugget from amongst other gold in his workings at Skippers on Saturday last.—Several claim-holders are now at work on Criflel. and all will be in full swing there in a week or two —The Gallant Tipperary mine was visited last week by two of the directors, who report favorably on the prospects for the present season. The return of amalgam (plates only) from 90 tons Btono crushed is 970z, being a much better return than any hithi rto received.—A portion of tho Kawarau River opposite tlu Horseshoe Bend has been taken up during the week, and will bo wo kod by means of the hydraulic jet —' Lake County Press.' We hear that advice was to-iay reorived from Mr J. C. Brown, M.11.R.,t0 the effect that tho B ue Spur claims have been successfully floated. Mr Brown returns to the Colony by the November Sin Francisco mail.