LATE MINING.

Evening Star, Issue 11694, 27 September 1902, Page 4

LATE MINING.

Victory: 17oa 14dwt; 123 hoars, > Kohi or: 42ra 13dwt; 134 bows, Rise and Shine: 520z 15dwt;115 boon. vThe secretary of tie Grand Junction Gold Dredging Company advises the receipt of the following telegrams :—From Mr Jamw Horn local director: "Struck payable'gold Thursday morning- probably ptnses; mats now still improving." Fioa the dredge-masters "Prospecte AirCTound verv deep; dredge working «atnfa» > torily." There will bo no wasbmp thi* w«!;. , r The machinerv of the Rise and Shine n runn ng Pro-pects coutinne the same ; Jne Rc'.iancc Company's'dredge sprang • leak on Thursday afternoon—it is thought;-1-jough com ng in contact with a sharp edge of rock. Immediately It was discovered ah ha- ds voer put on the pomps, while stwo*. efforts were mads to stop the leak, These were, however, unavailing and; *ho saik dunng the night. Her pWion ia surh. however, as will enable her to be ia:s?d with the lea«st amount of expense or tioub.e, and it is understood that a diver is being brought from' Dunedin for the pur-' pose.—Mr T. Thompson, dredge-master of the Ettrick dredge, met witb a natty accident last week. While one-of the men waa working with a s'edge hammer Mr Thompson to look oyer from the opposite side of the ladder, while the man was raising the hammer, and it hit him full in the face, knocking out "three of his front teeth and otherwise injuring the face, Mr Thi mpson is progressing favoraby, and will soon be fit to work again.—'Tuaoeka Times.' - ."~ v ~~