MINING NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12728, 11 April 1904, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

[press association.] DUNEDIN, Saturday. Dredging Returns.—Electric 11. 2210z, Golden Bed 660z, New Roxburgh Jubilee 430z lOdwt 18gs, Sandy Point 420z sdwt 18gs, Rise and Shine I. 360z, Waikaka United 350z sdwt, Waimumu 330z lOdwt, Gabriel 330z Bdwt, Earnscleugh I, 28oz lOdwt, Earnscleugh 11. 28oz Bd\vt, Rising Sun 260z, Waikaka Queen 250z ISdwt, Upper Waipori 250z 14dwt, MacCharitotn 250z sdwt, Island Block 240z lldwt, Otago 11. 21oz lOdwt, Happy Valley 21oz, Rise and Shine li. 20oz 16dwt, Waikaka United 20oz 15dwt, Otago 1. 18oz sdwt, Waimumu 15oz, Revival l3oz lOdwt, Loch Lomond lOoz 15dwt, Waikaka 9oz.l9dwt, Inch Valley 9oz lOdwt, Ngapara 111. soz 7dwt. AUCKLAND, Saturday. The Tairua Broken Hills Gold Mining Company’s return for March was £1320 worth oi bullion from 600 tons.

THE PANAMA HAT. There’s an art in the tilting of a Panama hat (writes “Pippa,” in the “Australasian’') Whether it be a real two-guinea Panama or an eighteenpenny imitation, there never was one fashioned yet which didn’t look dowdy when yon bought it. Knowing girls lake a broad bit oi ribbon, pink or blue, and try the hat on in the shop with that bit of ribbon wound round the crown before they decide which particular kind suits their particular style of beauty. Then they spend hours in front of the mirror at home, coaxing it into flutes at each side of the forehead, with an extra upward tilt in the front and a downward curve against the back of ■ the head. They jab it with hatpins here, turd wet it with the end of a moist towel there, in the endeavour to get it to go. Sometimes it will, but oftener it won’t. If it looks fairly presentable the lirst day, the second day you wear it you look about as welldressed as an Aunt Sally after she has been hit, or a champion-tennis-playing lady after she has succeeded in beating all-comers at a tournament. A Panama needs constant attention, everlasting jabbing with hat-pins, and moistening with wet towels, and, even then, it will be obstinate enough to hang dejectedly down when you very much wish it to rise aggressively up. To look smart, a Panama hat must be turned up in front. Then, what is the use of a Panama hat? For it is supposed to be worn only for the purpose of shading the face beneath from the sun; but a turned-down brim! Never! So we go on wearing these hats at the seaside or driving along the scorching bush-tracks when it is HOdeg. in the shade, and we turn them up in front to look pretty. And all the time-we might just as well wear a paper cap from a Christmas bon-bon for all the protection it is. Far better would the head gear known to milliners as “trimmed’’ be for these seashore and back-block excursions, because to these you can conveniently hang a veil or a gossamer, and not spoil the effect. It looks studied and thought-out, and not “meant,” to wear a veil with a Panama.