SEW HOY BIG BEACH GOLD MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9904, 24 November 1893, Page 3

SEW HOY BIG BEACH GOLD MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

The annual meeting of shareholders in this company was held at the Chamber of Commerce at 4 p.m. yesterday; Mr James Gore in the chair. There were about a dozen other shareholders present.

The report of the directors, already published, was read.

The Chairman stated there wa3 no doubt that move gold would have been obtained but for the floods that had taken place during the last three or four months. £5377 10s had been paid into their hands during the year. The shareholders would observe that tb.e coal account had been very considerably reduced. Five attempts had been made to get to the bottom of the present paddock, and they had been five times flooded out, but he had no doubt any stoppage from this cause would be only temporary. During the last ; 12 months the company had disbursed in QueensI town the following amounts :— Wages, £5103; freight and cartage of coal, £l\td ; law costs, £28; rent and taxea, £1(54; working expenses, £40b'; general office expenses, £80 ;—or a total of £7241. The coal consumption for the year ending 31st October 1892 represented £2635, and for the same period up to 31st October 189, i £2327, or a saving of £308. He begged to move —" That the report and balance sheet be adopted." Mr John Mill seconded the motion, which was agreed to. On the motion of Mr Mill, Mr James Gore and Captain Cameron were reappointed directors. Mr A. Bartleman was re-elected auditor-at the same remuneration as last year (10 guineas). The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the directors and chairman.

Mr Callender has received a telegram from Matakitaki dredge reporting 9oz 16dwt for three days ending Saturday, 18th.

The Cromwell Argus hears that the manager of the Cromwell Company, in exploring the old workings, has found a reef some sft in width, which, from stone crushed in mortar, will yield ounces to the ton ; and that he has quite 100 ft of backs to work on from where it was struck. This, for the company, and also for the.district generally, ia glorious news ; as if correct it will revive the confidence of capitalists in the resources of the district, in addition to the immediate benefit created by the circulation of money and the employment of a large amount of labour. An Auckland telegram states that at the Waihi mine 112S tons of ore were crushed and treated for a return of bullion valued at £5112. GOAL ISLAND, PRESERVATION INLET, AND MAINLAND. (From Our Own Correspondent.) November 17.—Coal Island: The miners here have been very busy for the last month. At No. 1 Creek three parties are busy at work. Snow and party are stripping a large paddock, which they expect will turn out well. Kirkland and party are doing a lot of hard work, though as yet hardly payable. Rowell and party, higher up the creek, have great difficulties to contend with, but their well-known pluck and perseverance will shortly land them on the precious metal. At No. 2 Creek Haberfield and Company, having finished the left bank of the creek, have now gone over to the right bank, where some good gold was got in the early days, the ground being given up as being too deep and difficult to work. They, however, so fur do not find it very different from the opposite side, and expect to make it pay them equally well. Above them come the Prospectors, who have very heavy work to contend with. Their present workings are in very deep ground, and the last six weeks have been yery wet, causing incessant baling—a very tiresome and unprofitable operation. The reef now shows signs of rising, when good gold is almost sure to be the result. Campbell and Bradshaw, higher up the creek, are working very hard, but with very indifferent success; other parties have been prospecting up and down the creek, bub with no success. It seems as if the only payable claims were the first taken up, and that nothing further worth working is to be found. At Moonlight, or No. 7 Creek, a few parties are still steadily at work, of which Cullen and Clark are, I believe, doing about the best. More could find work here were water more plentiful. On. the mainland things are, as a whole, rather dull. At Sealers No. 1 several parties are doing very well, while the majority are only making a good living. Au MacNamara creek only a few parties are at work, and they are not doing much. Since the middle of last month the Wilson has almost been deserted. A big Good drove the miners all out then, and the following week another rise in the river fiuished most of them for good. A few parties are scattered up and down the terrace 3, some doing j very well, others only so so. There is very little doing at the reef, only the Prospectors doing a little work in the way of preparing for the machinery, &c, Nothing much will be done until the tram line is finished; then the machinery will be brought on the ground, when it is to be hoped they will have plenty of rich stone to grass to produce a handsome cake. The tram lice continuesjto make good progress, one or two of the most energetic parties having fiaished their sections in a most creditable manner. The township of Cromarty still continues to go ahead. All we want is a few good reefs to make it permanent and prosperous.

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THE MOSGIEL WOOLLEN COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir, —In your report of the annual meeting of this company Mr Morrison, the manager, is said to havo stated that "theMosgiel Company was the only woollen company in New Zealand now doing business outside the colony," &o. This is incorrect, for the Kaiapoi Woollen Company have for the last 10 years done a large business in New South Wales and Queensland, haviDg n, warehouse and offices in Sydney under competent management.—l am, &c,

Christchurch Shareholder,

November 22,

ROWDYISM,

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir,—Every true man and lover of liberty must feel disgusted and alarmed at the intolerance and disorderly proceedings of the faction who would not permit a candidate for parliamentary honours full expression of his political views at the City Hall last night.

I thiuk ib is time that citizens of this enlightened city should make it their duty to put a scop to such riotous conduct, and make a stand to protect themselves from all interference with their candidates, and their own liberty of voting according to their dictates of right and wrong.

It is a most significant fact that the meetings of Messrs Pinketton, Earnshaw, and Hutchison have been singularly free from all these blackguardly and intolerant interruptions, and that directly anyone who is not of their ticket ventures to hold a meeting he is howled or sung down. The inference, to my mind, and to every right-thinking man, is that if you are not of the select trinity you are to be stamped down and kept under foot, and all power of speech and voting to be taken from you. _ Liberty, liberty, not abuse, misrepresentation, and intimidation, I claim.—l am, &c,

Dunedin, November 23. Semper Fidelis,

mHE GENERAL ELECTION.

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