MINING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12421, 9 February 1901, Page 2

MINING.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, Feb. 8. Owing to the fall in the prices of-silver and! lead, and tho high cost of working, the direc■tors of the 'Broken Hill Junction mine have decided to close the mine for the present. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 8. The Waatekauri Gold Mining Co. cleaned no for a return of bullion valued at £5097 from 2578 tons of ore. The UnionAVaihi Gold ; Mining Co. treated 1258 tons for bullion valued at £993, •„ DUNEDIN, Feb. 8. The Roxburgh Amalgamated Sluicing Co. - has obtained an additional 230 z 4dwt 6gr, making a total for January of 1530 z 9dwt 9gr. Dredging return—lnch Valley 13oz lOdwt. DUNEDIN; STOCK EXCHANGE'S. DUNEDIN, Feb. 8. . Dunedin Stock Exchange sales at pre-miums-—Grand Junctions 6s 3d, Grey River Consolidated 4a 6d, Mosquito 5s 9d and Cs, : North Beach 3s 3d, Pactolus 11. 25... Paid : up:—First Chance 2Ss 6d, Ford’s Creek 15s and 14s, Fourteen-mil© Beach 31s, Gentle An-, nia 47s 9d and 47s 6d, Gold, Queen 34s 6d_and , 355, Golden Bed 30s, 'Grey River S4s, Halfway Housa 45k 3d and 455, Kawarau Bridge ’ 'll-s 4£d and 11s 3d, Majestic 245, Moa Flat 24s Mokoia 265, Now Alexandra 13s, 13a 3d ; and 12a Gd, Royal Maori lSa, Vincent-Extend-ed 475, ‘Wadmumu 29s and. 38$ 6d, Gold Dcpo- - ait 5s 6d'discount, ’ " • Otago Exchange Sales :-Rai&up ; ■ Arrow Junction 335, Dobson XI. 25s 6d, Electric als • 6cl, Metallic 235. ■ ' ; Equitable . Exchange'salea, at,,prenuum ; : ■Duke of Wellington-6d; Paid! up: .Electric : Extended 89s, Meg and. Annie 67s 6d, Mernmao 46 s - ■ - "• : , CANTERBURY STOCK The following are yesterday’s quotations of 'the'Stock Exchange of Canterbury : —AI, sellers 23s pd; Aldinga, sellers 7s p; Blaokwater River, sellers par; . Callaghan Creek, sellers •Ss p; Croesus (quartz), buyers Is p; Dobson ’No 2 sellers 26s pd; Great Woodstock, sellers ■la p-’Grey River, sellers 54s pd; Grey River. !'No. 2, sellers 6s p; Grey River Extended, sellera" Is p; Grey Monarch, sellers 2s p; HoklHLka Extended, sellers Is p; Hokitika Junction sellers Is 6d p; Hokitika River, sellers ’>l23 p; Koh-i-noor Extended, sellers Is p; ’•Leviathan, sellers 425. pd; Marsdea No. 3, sellers 22s 6d pd; Maori King, sellers 2s 9d ‘.p; Now River, sellers 12s 6d pd; Pactolus iNo. 2, sellers 2s 6d p; Pactolus No. 3, sellers ’9d p;*Red Jacks, sellers Is 9d p; Ruby Creek, buyers Ss p; Reef ton United, buyers Is 9d p; iSullivan’a Lead, sellers par; Waipuna, sellers : 24a 6d pd; [Westland, sellers par. ■ At ai meeting of directors of the Monti gomer/S Terraco Hydraulic Sluicing Comi pany, held at the office of tho secretary* Mr G. D. Russell, it was decided to instruct Mr ; Gillies, engineer to the company, to immedi>ately commence the survey, of the. new water;race. It was also decided to call for -applies*.tions for the position 'Of manager. "; r ’