THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8360, 13 September 1890, Page 5

THE GOLDFIELDS.

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[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Thames. Friday. Sharemarket.— Caledonian, sellers 2s 6d; Consols, Scl, sellers Sd, buyers 7d ; Freedom, sellers Is Cd ; Golden Age, sellers Is Id; Manukau, sellers Is ; May tjueen, 12s fid, buyers Pistil; Moanataiari 8s 3d, sellers Ss lid ; Norfolk, sellers 2s ; Orlando, 10d, sellers Is; Saxon, fis 2d, sellers fis (id; Victoria, sellers is 7d ; Hazelbank, buyers Is 4d.

We arc informed that Mr. J. XV. Walker has been appointed mining superintendent to the Kauri Timber Company, Limited, to control ami eupervi&e the extensive operation* in goldmining now being carried on upon the company's freehold property a' Whangapoua. The reports from the Op tonui and Owera fields are most promising, and there is every probability that duritg the ensuing summer a very large number >f men will be working on them, and tie possibility is that some important ds-

yjvt.-ries may bo made on this ground, whch .iji to tlio present have escaped tbo fro-fiii.-ci.or-* pick and tomahawk. The Kiuri Timber C nn|),iny arc to be congrafcultted an having made si start to develop whao we nay fairly hope will proven rich field.

[BY TELWiUAI'U.— PRESS AssoCIATI»N.] Hokitika, Frtlay. __ file Ross United Company cleaned up at Jone>'.i flat elevators yesterday, wirn 117oz, making the yield fur this run dovn 1660z, valued at iH".V\. Owing to the shortsupply ol wale:' Driugiiue's. elevators did network.