MINING NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4301, 9 March 1901, Page 6

MINING NEWS

Mr George Ross, secretary of the Mahinapna Gold Dredging Company, received tho following telegram yesterday afternoon: —" Mnlunapua is working: lias every appearance of a return within a fortnight.” The Westralia, which sailed yesterday for Dunedin, had a large quantity of gold-dredging machinery on board from the Clyde Engineering Company, of Sydney. The machinery is for the Leaning Rock and Gold Deposit Gold Dredging Companies, of Otago. YESTERDAY’S QUOTATIONS. WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. Quartz —Big River Extended, sellers ‘2s Gd ; Croesus, buyers Is lid. Dredging (West Coast, Nelson and Marlborough)—Aylmer Lead, sellers par; Duller Junction, sellers 14s; Fail-down, sellers 6d p ; Ford’s Creek, sellers 18,s; Four River Plain, sellers 2s dis; Greenstone Junction, sellers £1 7s; Grey River Consolidated, buyers 4s p, sellers us; Hokitika Junction, sellers Is. 3d p; Kohinoor, sellers 8s 6d, sales 8s 6d.-. Marsden No. 1, sellers 9d p; Mikonui River, sellers par; Mosquito, buyers 7s 3d p, sellers 9s; Murchison, sellers par; Notowu Creek, buyers 3s 6cl p; Notown Ne. 2, sellers par ; Old Diggings, buyers 3s Cd )), sellers 5s ; Paetolus No. 3, sellers par; Perry’s Reward, sellers 6d p ; Premier Duller, buyers 2s dis, sellers par; Red .lacks, buyers 3s 3d p; Reeves Proprietary, sellers £1: Rocklands Beach, sellers £1 Is 9d- Ruby Creek, sellers 5s p; Teremaknu, sellers liar; Totai'ii-Flat, sellers 2s 6d p; Wareatea, sellers 3s 6d p; Callaghan’s Creek, bbyers 4s 6d p. Dredging (Otago)—Ca'rdrona Valley, sellers 17s 6d; Endeavour, buyers* £1 Os 3d, sellers £1 2s; Lady Charlton, buyers 6d dis, sellers par. 0, S. Watkins, Chairman. C. D. Morpeth, Secretary. DUNEDIN SHAREMARKET. press association. DUNEDIN, .March 8. To-day’s Dunedin* Stock Exchange sales were: Premiums Blackwater, ,3d; Duller Junction, 13s 3d; Davis’s Bond, 2s 3d; Grand Junction, 7s 3d: Stafford-Wai-meii, 3s 9d; Trafalgar, 10s; Victory,, Ss; Wareatea, 3s 6d. Paid up—Dobson No. 2,14 s; Electric, 545, 54s 6d, 55s 6d, oos 3d and 555; Electric Extended, 54s 6d, G4s, 52s 6d, 525, 51s 9d, 51s 6d -and 51s 9d; First Chance, 335; Ford’s Credit, 16s and 16s 3d; Galvanic, 35s 9d; Gibhston, 225. 22s 4jd and 235; Golden Bed, 235; Golden Link, 32s 3d, 33s 3d, 335, 325, 31s and 30s ; Halfway House, 44s 6d ; Hartley and Riley, £6 18s; Kawarau Bridge, 15s; Meg and Annie, 755; Mernniac, 40s; Nanraai 235; Nelson Cceek, 56s 3d, 565, 55s 9d and 55s 6d; New Alexandra, 13s 9d; Second Magnetic, 41a, 425, 42s 3d, 42s 6d, 425, 40s 6d and 41s; Vincent Extended, 465. 46s 6d, 46s 3d and 465; Wniniuniu, 265; Waipuna, 21s Cel; Lady Charlton, IsGd'dis. Otago Exchange—Alpine Consols, 445; Arrow Junction, 34s 6d ; Caimmuir, 35s ; Galvanic, 365; Gold Queen, 29s 3d; Majgstic, 375,j 37s 3d and 37s 6d. Equitable—Richards’s Bench, Jos; Teviot, IBs. - GOLD RETURN?. PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. .March 8. During, the four weeks ending March 2nd, the Waihi Gold Mining Company treated 13,335 tons of ore for a return of £31,257. This constitutes n fresh record. , REEFTON, March 8. The Reeves Proprietary return is !Uoz gold for ninety-eight hours’ dredging. DUNEDIN, March 8. f The following gold returns arc announced:—Eamscleugh No. 2, 74cz , 13dwt: Hartley and Riley, 40oz sdwt; Inch Valley, 19oz lldwt; Gold Queen, lOoz lOchvt; Globe, Bcz 15dwt. Ibe Deep. Steream Sluicing'Company report v 876 z for 28 days.