MINING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12589, 26 August 1901, Page 2

MINING.

vVEST COAST'NOTES. [From Our Correspondent.] G REYMOUTH, August 25. Tie following dredging returns are to. band: —AI 31oz lldwc for 130 hours, Buller Junction 21oz lOdwt for 150 Fours; Three-mile Greenstono 290 z for 96 hours, Pactolus 20oz for 116 hours, Almira River 17oz 7dwt for the week, Maori Queen Koz for 124 hours, Ford’s Creek 13oz Sdwt f0r,119 hours, Leviaxhan 12oz 16dwt for 78 hours,' Grey River 9oz lOdw.t for 94 hours. Greenstone Junction 13oz 15dwt for the week. Ford’s Creek only got om to gold on Thursday. It is now dredging in the Grey River, near Shrive’s Treasure claim, the depth of wash being 31fr. Prospects of the Ahaura River are much improved. It is now in nice free wash, clear of all timber, and the dredge is working well. The Maori Queen s return was very gratifying, the amount of material put through being less than on the previous week. The ground is rich, hutythe dredge is not powerful enough to treat it_in. bulk. Grey River’s return was a complete disappointment, the earlier part of the week indicating ,250 z of a return. Forth Reach ha-s not yet got out of silt, but should strike the wash about Tuesday night. Silence continues to he maintained about Perry’s Reward. No information is available, which is certainly not a good sign. Prince of Wales's pontoons are nearly completed. Robinson’s Creek has been turned into a dam 1 to float them. The wall darrt of Ross Day Dawn will be completed by Tuesday, and the launch of the pontoon! is fixed for next day. Little or none of the machinery is to hand, and j-x will he ten weeks before a start can he made. Erickson’s, and Grey Consolidated, it is reported, have increased yields, but official returns are not to hand. [Per Press Association.] WESTPORT, August 24. The output of coal for the week was 6151 tons oewi), of which 5780 tons ilowt were from the Westport Coal Company’s mines and 370

tons 14 cwt fromthe Westport Co-operative Company’s. ■; GREYMOUTH, August 25.

Coal exports for the week—Blackball Corcw ■pany 1885 tons 3 cwt, 'Brunner Company 2507 tons 13 cwt. •

DREDGING RETURNS. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 34. Dredging Returns: —Rockland’s Beach 31o? 12dwt lor 130 hours. GREYMOUTH, August 34. Dredging Returns;—Leviathan 12oz IGiwJ for 78 hours, Grey River 91oz for 94 hours, 1 Ford's Creek 13oz Bdwt for 119 hours, Pactolas 20oz for 116 hours, Buller Junction 21Joa for 150 hours, Al 31oz lldwi) for 130 hours. Three-mile Greenstone 290 z for the week. DUNEDIN, August 24. Dredging Returns: —Cromwell 2220 z 19dwi, Arrow Junction 4oz, Second Magnetic SOoi 12dwt, Magnetic 470 z, Electric 1520 z, Junction Electric No. 216 oz, Sailor’s Bend 360 z lldwt, Gabriel 230 z lldwt, Spec Gully SOoz 9dwt, Naumai Boz lldwt lOgrs, Fourteen-mile Beach 270 z 3dwr, White Star 14oz 14d'wt, Golden Gravel 13oz 17dwt, Gibbs’s Beach Boz lYdwt, Bannockburn Creek 16oz 17dwt, Shepherd’ 3 Creek lloz 13dwt, Tuapeka lOoz, Teviot 15oz 3dwt 12grs. , -. DUNEDIN, August 25. r Additional dredging returns—Cromwell 2230* 19dwl, Manuherikia 2020 z 4dwt lOgr, Junction Electric 11. 168 oz, Electric 1520 z, Junction Eloottric I. flats Richards Beach) lOOoz, Golden Gate 570 z, iSecond Magnetic 530 z 12dwt, Clyde 490 z, Magnetic 470 z, Matua 460 z, Eemacleugh. 11. 440 z, Perseverance 40oz 17dwt 6gr, Success 39 oz Idwt 6gr, Earnscleugh I. 87oz lldwt, Majestic 370 z 7dwt, Empire SGoz 4dwt, Sailor's Bend 360 z lldwt, Mag and Annie 83oz ISdwt, Eureka 83oz, Fourteen-mile Beach 270 z Bdwt, Long Valley 270 z, Olrig 260 z lldwt 12gr, Gabriel 230 z lldwt, Cairnmuir 230 z, Spec Gully 20oz 9dwt, Molyneux Hydraulic 20oz 2dwt, Chicago 16oz, Bannockburn Creek 16oz ISdwt, Teviot 15oz 3dwt 12gr, White tStaT 14oz 14dwt, Shepherd’s Creek lloz ISdwt, Lawrence ftoZ lldwt, Gibbs Beach Boz 17dwi, Naumai 80s lldwt lOgr, Arrow Junction 4oz.

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, August 24. Sales on the Dunedin Stock Exchange:-*, Ahaura River 3s, Alpine No. 2 265, Bendigo 13a 9d, First Chance 17s 6d, 17s 6d and 17s, Fourteen-mile Beach 21s, 21s, 21s 3d, 21s 64 and 21s 9d, Leaning Rook 12s Sd, 12s, 11s 9<J and 11s 3d, Manuherikia 40s, Meg and Annie 365, Monte Christo 335, 335, 32s 6d, 32s 3d, 32s 3d, 325, 32s 3d, 82s, 32s 9d and S2s 9d, Nelson Creek 63s 6d, 53s 6d «nd 53s 6d, Reeves’ Proprietary IGs Gd and 16s 3d, Vincent Extended 7s and 7s.

CANTERBURY STOCK EXCHANGE. The following are Saturday’s quotations of the Stock Exchange of Canterbury:—Al, buyers 18s 6d pd, sellers 20s pd; Bendigo, buyers 13s. 6d pd; Buller Junction, sellers Is p; Ford's Creek, sellers 7s 6d pd; Fourteenmile Beach, buyers 22s pd; Greenstone Onjek, sellers 16s pd; Hokitika River, sellers 17s 6<s pd; Inch Valley, sellers 42s 6d pd; Marsden No. 1, sellers 18* pd; Monte Christo, buyers S2s pd; Nelson Creek, buyers 52s pd; Orwell (Seek, seller# 12s 6d pd; Red Jacks, sellers 20s pd; Threer mile Greenstone, 20s pd.

The Secretary of the Al Company (Mr W, Rollitt) has received' the following telegram, from -the Dredgemaster:—The return is 31oa lldwt for 130 hours’ work.

The return of Reeves' Proprietary is 28oz foj 112 hours.