WEST COAST NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14088, 17 December 1907, Page 6

WEST COAST NOTES.

(From Our Own CoRrEsroNDBiT.) GItEYMOUTH. December 18. The Progress Minos of New Zealand (litd.) returns for November arc as follows:--Millet], -1133 lons, yielding 10670z 16f.lwt u£ a value of £4124 14s; cyanided .1060 tons for a yield of -19:107. Sdvr't, of Hie value of fIGW 15s sd: total, lofiloz ldwt, of a value of £6034 9s stl. The Consolidated Goldlields of New Zealand (Ltd.) returns for November are: — Golden Fleece—Milled. 355 tons, yielding 20307. 12dwt. of a value of £SIS 15s 9d; Wealth of Nation?— Milled, 1205 tons, yielding 3990z lSdv.'t, of a value cf £'1050 ss; cvanided. 11*20 tons, vieldinq 2-lSoz ISdwt, of a value of £766 10s -Id; total, GJSoz 16dwt, of a value of £244.'! Is 4d. Bignell's No Town drodgo has been refloated. hut repairs will cause a further delay of a week or so ere dredging is resumed. The Mx-rrimar dredge, which sunk at Boaton Wednesday morning last, was successfully lifted on Saturday evening last. Tho dredge had been ballasted on Tuesday afternoon, and some time between 10 o'clock and the nest morning she sank. She was to have started dredging on Wednesday. The dredge sank iu 19ft of water. No time was lost in making preparations for refloatin" her, and a number of men were immediate'y employed in bringing up a tail race, so fs to lower the water in the i]ain. Tliis was completed 011 Saturday morning, and the dam was lowered sufficiently to allow the outer deck of the port pon'toon to be out of tho water, while the outer deck oi the rtarboard pontoon was 6ft under the water. All hatchways and other openings under tho water were closed, and a- 12in centrifugal pump connected to the lower pontoon and driven by a 1G h.p. engine was set going. Three oilier emergency pumps' were in the meantime got- readv, 'but were not required, for after the big'pump had been going for one hour it was seen that t-he scheme was going to be a success, and at HM tho dredge was afloat. It is naticipjted

the will start dreeing this evening. This must surely bo a record, for lifting r sunkou dredge, only three days elapsing from the time of sinking til! ilia machine was refloated and ready to resume work. The pause- of her sinking remains yet a mystery. No hole \va? loeated, and she is quito tightTho export of coal last week reached 10.409 tons, which is a record for the port.