MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6824, 29 December 1883, Page 2

MINING.

JfOTES FROM MACETOWN. tFKOM OUB OWN COERESrONDENI.)

Macetown, December 20. The return obtained from the Gladstone crushing— namely, 3600z - was gcod, there being only 400 ton 3of etone put through the battery. The wet weather hindered the Company from crushing so much as they intended, but whatever was left in the paddock will be'so much towards another crushing, which will lake place so soon as there is a respectable quantity ot utonc in the paddock. .'"',. Tho Homeward-Bound crushing—viz., 98oz of gold from 178 tons of stone—was good under the circumstances, and will, I trust, be lollowed by better by-And-bye. The Garibaldi stone is being carted from the paddock to the Tipperary machine by Mr R. Hood, and it will not be long ere this claim again reports itpelf to the public. Good reports come from the Keep-it-Dark, handfiome proßpects being obtained from the drillings. Macetown is pretty nearly deserted by men availing themselves of the-cheap fares to Invercargill, Dunedin, and elsewhere.

MINING AT THE THAMES. (Put United Press Association. I

Thames, December 28. The annual meeting ot the Prince Imperial Company was held at the Thames today. The report showed that dividends amounting to 39a per share were paid during the year, representing £35,000, and £49:8 remained in hand. The value of the gold obtained in tha year from tie mine was £59,425,