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The Hartley and Riley dredge is not working this wesk, having stopped to put in a new top tumbler. * Our Alexandra coirespondent wired' on Tuesday:—"The river is a shade lower. A resolution was passed last night at an extraordinary meeting of the Divnstau Pioneer Investment Company to inciease the capital from £7000 to £9000." The Secretaiy of the Waimumu Central Dredging Company reports a return for last week of lloz lGdwt for 10i hours. The Woolshed dredge washed up on Friday for 15oz. For some days the dredge had to work through old tailings to secure a better position on the new ground, and this accounts for the drop in the returns when compared with pievious takings. —Bruce Herald. It is leported (says the Brvice Herald) that the Riverbank Gold Dredging Company's application for lpnd on the south branch of the Tokomairiro River, to come before the warden at Lav/reace on Monday, 21st inst., is to be opposed by Messrs Aitcheson, Hanley, and Haley, whose farms are m close pioximity to the lands applied for. At a meeting of the directors of the Island Creek Gold Dredging Company (Limited), held on Monday afternoon, the company's engineer (Mr Roberts) was in attendance, and stated that an engine had been cabled for, and would be in readiness in due time. He purposed visiting the claim next week, when he would complete all arrangements for the immediate transferring of the company's dredge to the claim and its subsequent erection. A meeting of the diiectors of the Eoyal Sovereign Gold Dredgirg Company (Limited/ was held on Monday evening, when it was reported that boring operations had been successfully completed on the claim with satisfactory results. Plans and specifications for the dredge are now being prepared.