MINING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13066, 4 March 1903, Page 2

MINING.

-■■ ■ - THE IAULTUNG-A BUSH. United Pros* Awoedatiou —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, Match 3. Excitement continues over tha Arltunga gold-line'., mid it -has been heightened by tho reported discovery o£ two new fiftocu-inch reefs allowing gold freely. Many persons «ro leaving for uio field, including «. number of well-known mining . men. Several earlier claims are stated to bo giving rich returns. Prospectors arc warned of tbo necessity of being well equipped and financed owing to tho distance and difficulty of access to the field and tho scarcity of water and food. WESTLAND NOTES. [From Quit Correspondent.] GREY-MOUTH,. March 3. Additional returns;—Bullor Junction 690 a for 09 hours. Nelson Crock 490 z Bdwl, 1-edder-sm’s 420 z 17dwtfora week, Ericksons Reward 250 z for 115 hours, Greenstone Creek ISoz for 131 hours, Leviathan Mo* 2dwt ITgr, Cornwall Mo;’,, Aldinga 15oz Mdwt for a week. The Duller Junction.had a deal of silt to clear out at tho end of tho week, as the result cf tho floods. | Nolspn Creek is l still on tho poor park of tho claim, but possibly it will get an improved yield this week. •" . •„ . . Feddersen’s has now got «n excellent face opened, with pood -wash. ■ , . ■ Greenstono Crook is working in previously worked ground. " 'Owing to being considerably, delayed witn timber and silt, Callaghan’s did mot wash up. Silt ds likely to prove- troublesome lor 1 a week or so. Tho Am'ikitea and tho Now Greenstone ace. both idle. Tl»e former as repairing, and the latter is waiting for. a new croivij. wheel. . OTAGO NOTES. r [From Our Correspondent.] : DUNEDIN, Mare\3. The Golden Shore-dredge on the "Wnipori has sunk. The accident was probably due .partly to the dredge’s small amount of freeboard and partly to tho pontoons having an accumulation of tailings in tho shoot, carising the deck to be submerged and the hull filled with water. Those ora board had a narrow escape. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, March 3. Tha following wore the Stock Exchange sales oV Dunedin to-day-First Chance 31 s tkl and 218. Gibbston Is, Happy. Talley 6s 3d,. Kelly and Casey Is 6d. MINING NOTES. The "Welcome Company’s dredge, which was stopped bv floods <m Friday and Saturday, resumed work .at eleven o’clock on Monday morning. ' , ~ „ Mr H. A. Bruce, secretary to tho Commirisiener’s Flat Gold-dredging Company, left veslcrday morning on a visit of ansfiectson! to the West Coast. Tho transfer cf tho Hokitika River Company’s plant,to the Bellevue claim, near Nelson, is boing conducted very rapidly, Tho scow chartered to, carry tho plant from Hokitika to Nelson was expected to return to 'Hokitika on. Monday for its second load. Tho first load is now well on its way to tho new C *The directors of tho Now Golden Gravel Gold-dredging Company have declared a dividend (tho fourth) of 2s per share, payable on Friday.