MINING.

Evening Star, Issue 14997, 3 October 1912, Page 6

MINING.

The manager of the Roxburgh Amalgamated. Company reports a return of 720z sdwt for about a month's sluicing. It was expected that the Sand\- Point dredge would resume operations last night. The secretary of the Red Jack's Company reports that good progress has been made with the dismantling of the company's dredge. Mr A. F. Warner, engineer, is in charge of the work, and advises that all the machinery has been removed from the pontoons, and that the stripping of the pontoons is now in progress. A contract for cartinc the machinery and timber from Nelson "Creek to the company's claim has been let to Mr James Dennehy, of Rewanui. A BIG NUGGET FOUND AMONG ROAD METAL. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, October 3. (Received October 3, at 9.40 a.m.) A migget weighing 4oz lldwt 6gr was found in a street at Forbes. It had been carted there among some road metal, and was flattened out by the cart wheels. THE SHARE MARKET. BUNEDIN EXCHANGE. Sales reported : Perpetual Trustees 23/6, 23/6. Quotations: —Dredging.— Golden Bed—Sel 9/6. Masterton—Buy 7/. —Sluicing.— Ross Goldfields—Buy 4/9, sel 5/3.

—Quartz. — Consolidated Goldfields—Sel 14/6. Kuranui Caledonian—Sel 1/5. May Queen —Sel 1/2. New Zealand Crown Mines'—Sel 2/4. New Svlvia—Sol 1/5. Old Hauraki-Sel 1/4. Talisman Consolidated—Buv 39/, sel 39/9. Waitangi—Buy 9£J, sel 1/. Waihi—Buy 36/. sel 36/6. Waihi Grand Junction—Buv 22/9, sel 23/3. VVaiotalii—Set 2/. Saxon—Sel lid. —lnvestments. Bank of New Zealand—Buy 221/ National Insurance Company—Buy 40/, sel 40/9. Union Steam Ship Company—Buv 46/6. set 47/3. ... Westport Cost Company—Buy 28/2, sel 28/5. Westport Stockton—Buy 4/. New Zealand Coal and Oil—Buy 5/6. Dominion Rubber (A issue) —Sel 28/6. Donaghy's Rope and Twine—Buy 26/. Milburn Lime and Cement (£l)—Buv 39/6, sel 40/6. Mcsgiel Woollen Factory—Buy 68/6. Now Zealand Portland Cement—Sol 29/. New Zealand Paper Mills—Buv 21/, sel 21/9.. Perpetual Trustees Company Buv