MINING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12424, 13 February 1901, Page 2

MINING.

[Pek Ekess NELSON, Feb.il2. Newal from Golden Blocks, in the Colling* wood district, is -to' the 'effect that the battery; worked twenty-four days,- and .crushed two; hundred tons for four hundred and twentytwo ounces of melted, gold. DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. DU'NEDIN, Feb. 12. The Dunedin Stock Exchange reports sales as follows: —Premiums—Butler. Jmctroa: 5s 6d, ss, Mosquito 6s 6d, North'Beach ,2s. 9d, Victory 9s. Paid-up—Electric 535, Electee Extended 4ls, -Endeavour 235.6 d, Ford's" Creek 12s, Gentle Annie 47s 63, Gold, Queen SES, 32s 6d, 325, 31s 9d, Golden Bed- 295, -Mokoia 265, New Alexandra lis 6d, 14s 3d,, Otama 12s 6d, Waimumu 275, Waimtimu ' Central _233,_Waipuna 20s, 19s 6d. Otago Exchange.:—Premium—Grand Junction 6s 6d. Paid-up—Al-pine Consols'4ls, Dobson 11. 275, Galvanic 355, Magnetic 31s Gd, Merriinae 43s 6d. ■ Equitable Exchange:—Premium—'Ahaura River. 1 . Is. Paid-up—Grey River 505,. Kelly arid Casey 31s 6d, 31s Sd, 'Meg -and! Annie €Bs, Sailor's -Bend 40S. ' '."■'" .'"■ ..'"' ■ ■ CANTERBURYSTOCK EXCHANGE. The following are yesterday's quotations, of the .Stock Exchange oS Canterbury: —AI, fellers 25s pd; Aldinga, sellers 7s p; Butter Junction, sellers ss-6d p; Croesus (quartz); buyers Is p; Ford's Creek, buyers 12s 6d pd,;.sellers 14s 6dpd; Great Woodstock,' sellers'par;: Greenstone Creek, sellers 39s 6d : pd; Grey Eiver No. 2, sellers 5s 6d p; Grey River Extended, sellers Is 3d p; Grey Monarch, sellers .Is 6d p; Hartley and Riley,, 'sellers- 47 ,pd;Hoki'tika Junction, sellers Is. 6d p; ■-Koh-i----noor .Extended, sellers Is p; Metallic 25s 6d,pd; Mosquito, buyers :6s p;vNelson ' Creek, sellers .655. pd';- .North. Beach, .sellers 3s 6d p; Pactolus No. 2, sellers 2s. 6d p;__Fac-" tolus No. 3, sellers-9d p; Prince of Wales, sellers 63 p; Perry's. Reward,.selleracfld.p;: Red Jacks, /buyers .'ls ?d -p,.' Reeves's -Proprietary, sellers-. 21s:;, M /pa; .Sailor's. Bend, buyers 395. pd. . : The Mining - Investors'. •" Guide, • 'for .January, published' by the ;« Otago- Daily Times." .and; " Witness " Company, is the neatest comprehensive of its kind yet issued, ''having: reference to Otago and'West Coast dredging... The accounts, of the affairs of each dredging; company, together: with the names of:«the ,di-.; rectors, secretaries and , engineers,., and -thei prices ruling for the stock, have been carefully, compiled-by Mr A. H." Burton.. Tne number: is the third of the -series, and should meet -with, an even better reception than the two, -preced-. ing. 'Special -attention has been paid .&>.the,■ "range'of prices," and a list of actual:sales; from Jan. 4 till time-of publication has r.oeeb; embodied.. The dredges '•yet .-unfinished are; enumerated, together with the contract, times.. Mr G S Simpson, the secretary of the! Red Jacks Gold. Dredging Co., hasTeceipd ft' telegram from Greymouth, staling -that, the Chinamen obtained 4£oz from a paddock 20; bv 10 by 12ft. - ■ ~■■.. , " By proclamation, in the " Gazete, . .vanptiS areas of unoccupied Crown .land totalling--338 050 acres in Nelson and 83,970, Westland, have ■ been ■ set'.- apart. for'..-fflunng>. purposes exclusively. , / -./.,'..""'.■ : The proprietary of the Piccamni claim, sifa-_ ated on the 'New River, and adjoining:.the; Maori" King and Maori Queen claims, hasten' lately formed into a limited liability company.-; by Messrs. Hopkins, .Sim>paon, and, C 0.,. afiare-; : brokers, Christchurch. The capital i3'"£9000,; and the: whole' amount was: taken.,up by.twentyj, people in -the course of a, few hours. 2STo ap-j plication of less than. .250. was accepted.- The• shares have"'now been .'allotted;'.-and. the com-; pany registered, and, on iMo'nday;last.iQie'-j»eW manent directors were appointed.-., It;, tended to thoroughly bore and prospect .the property, under the supervision of Mr.Gardime* Wilson,, the West Coast director. . : '-,- " , , |