MINING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13887, 23 October 1905, Page 3

MINING.

WEST COAST NOTES. [Enow Out COBBESPOSKENT.] GItEYJIOUTH, October 22. Stony Moaquitoj now privately owned, washed up on Eriday, with a good yield. After being idle for some weeks, consequent upon some disagreement between, the owners and the workmen, North Beach resumed work early last week, and is said to have got » fair return at yesterday’s wash up. A Prospecting Association has been formed at Brannerton, to drive a low level tunnel in the Papairoa, to prove the reef. Tho Association already has a large membership. Slab Hut Creek has lately had soma trouble, cn -account of worked ground, but last week harrowed the face so as to leave out this n-on-aur'llerous material. Tha return was ISoz, end, seeing that t,ho best wash will ba treated this week, a larger yield is, anticipatecl. . Jamieson’s B-ewa-rd' has declared a Is dividend. Other returns -are:—Pactolus (two drodges) 1740 z, Jamieson’s Reward! 670 z for three days, New Trafalgar 430 z, Notown. Greek 8703, Three-mile Greenstone 230 z. Bighell’s Notown had no wash up, on «occnnt of a breakdown of the machinery. DREDGING RETURNS. [Pee Press Association/] - DUNEDIN, October 39. Dredging Returns.—Golden Bed- 760 z Idwt, Vaikaka- United I. 58oz 18dwt, Time 520 a 14dwl), Sandy Point 460 z BdWt, Rising Sun 430 a 17dwt, Else and Shine 11. 390 z ledwt, Waikaka’ 320 z 14dwt, Rise and Shine I. 82oz, Central Charlton 30oz 17dwt, Revival 270 z 6dwr, Eirst Chance SJ4oz, Matau. 230 z lOdwt, Nga-para- 111. 21oz, Hartly and Riley 21oz, Ngapara 111. 21oz, Hartley and Riley 21o«, 19oz 7dwt, Junction Electric 111. 14oz 7dwt, Upper Waipori 13oz Idwt, Charlton Creek 18oz, M’Charl/ton lOoz. The secretary -of tho Reeves's Proprietary Gold-dredging "Company reports returns from the No. 1 dredge of 260 z for 104 hours’ working, and from the No. 2 dredge of 15oz Sdwt for 117, hours’ dredging. The secretary of the A 1 Gold-dredging Company reports that the dredgemaster has been engaged in stripping, and there has been no wash-up this week.