MINING NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4318, 29 March 1901, Page 6

MINING NEWS.

The dredges lor the Kookiands and Greenstone Junction claims on the West Const have been oh the ground for some days, and are working iu first-class style. These dredges were supplied by Messrs S. Luke and Co. This firm have also completed a dredge for the Lioness claim, , on the Clutha, and have two others ready for Otago to be .shipped when the pontoons arc built—one for the Golden Milo and the other for the British Lion. A dredge for the Kohi. noor.claim, in the southernmost part of ' the West Coast, is now being built by Luke and Go. Parts of it have already been shipped. This will be the heaviest dredge built in the colony, and will ■dredge to a depth of 30ft. Daring the past twelve months, Messrs Luke and Co. have built six dredges for Otago and the West Coast. YESTERDAY’S QUOTATIONS. WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. Quartz -Barrier-Reef, sellers 5s 9d; Croesus, buyers Is 6d, sellers 2s Cd; New Zealand Crown, ’sellers 14s. Sluicing— Undaunted, sellers £lO 10s. Dredging (West Ceast, : Nelson and Marlborough)— Aylmer Lead, sellers 2s dis; Blackwater, sales 3d p; Callaghan’s Crcttk, sellers 6s p; Greenstone Creek, buyers £1 11s 6d; Greenstone Gold, sellers Is 6d p, sales Is 6d; Greenstone Junction, buyers £1 ss, sales £1 0s 6d, £1 4s; Ban Hau, sellers £1 Is -; Jones’s Flat, sellers Is p; Kohinoor, sellers 8s 6d p; Mahinapua, sellers £1; Marsclen No. 1, sellers par; Mosquito, ’sellers 8s p; Notown, Creek, buyers 2s 6d JJ, sellers 5s ; Notown No. 2, sellers par; Old Diggings (10s paid’up), sellers 11s 6d; Perry’s Reward,’sellers 6d . p; Totara Flat; sellers- 2s 3d p. Dredging (Otago)—Alexandra- Lead; sellers £l;,-. Oardrona Yalleyv seller);; £1; Charlton- Greek; buyers-,£l Jls 9d-. sellers- £ 1,14,5'9d ;, ChattoGrctek,’.seller?. T2s 6di;(Ri)deay()ur, buyers . jHo.use.:.-saleR ic ..£2 ; ,45;, SecdiiddMagWetic, j tuycr3 f £i'ils’; > r,i »■ •• • ’ ~j O. S. Watkins. Chairman, i C. D. Morpeth, Secretary. 1

DUNEDIN SH.VREMARKET. PRESS ASSOCIATION, DUNEDIN. March IS. To-day’s Dunedin .Stock Exchange sales wero: Premiums —Buller Junction, 10s Gd : North Beach, 3s; Pactolns, 28s 6:1 and 28s. Paid-up—Alpine Conacls, 41s 9d ; Ar. row Junction, 22s Qd and 235; Central Electric, 775; Dobson No. 2,12 s, 12s 3d and 12s Gd ; Electric, 50s- Electric Extended, 445, 465, 45s 6,1, 47s 6d, 48s, 495, 48s 9d, 495, 48s 6d, 45s Del, 45s 6d. 45s 3d, 45s Qd, 465, 45s 9d and 46s ; Fourteen-mile Beach, 31s; Gentle Annie. 42s and 41s 6d ; Gold King. 16s; Gold Queen, 26s and 25s 9d; Grey River Consolidated, 13s 3d'; Kelly and Casey, 34s 9d, 34s 6d, 34s 3d. 345, 33s 9d, 32s 6d, 31s 9d, 31s 6d. 30s 9d, 30s 6d, 30s 3d and 31s -, Magnetic, 30s and 295; Miller’s Flat Electric, Is Id ; Rich, ard’s Beach, 4s; Sailor’s Bend, 355; Second Magnetic, 30s and 30s Gd; Three-mile Greenstone, 21s; Upper Magnetic, 29s and 29s 6d; Waimumu, 255; Teviot, Is 6d dis. ' Otago Exchange.—Alpine No. 2,48 s; Galvanic, 17s; Golden Bed, 22s and 24s 3d ; Golden Link, 21s; Half-way-House. 425; Moa. Flat, 20s 9d ; Dunstan Creek, 58s. Equitable Exchange.—Eclipse, 28s; Endeavour, 21s ; Junction Electric, 31s. GOLD RETURNS. DUNEDIN, March 28. The Golden Bed dredge washed up 20oz for three days. AUCKLAND, March 28. The return from the Waihi Goldmining Company’s property- for the month is 175(1 tons treated for a y-ield of £2329.