ALEXANDRA, August 24. (From Our Own Correspondent.) ALEXANDER, August 24.

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ALEXANDRA, August 24. (From Our Own Correspondent.) ALEXANDER, August 24.

All the gorge dredges are working, birc are yet engaged opening out the paddocks. The dsrift is rather troublesome lai the oentT-e of "the river. After discarding the screen amd erecting boxes, the Alexandra Eureka dredge resumed work at the end of last week. The new Perseverance dredge had a run? of the new pumping apparatus last week, when everything appeared to work satisfactorily. The trial was made only wrfchT water, "but after a few alterations are made a dredging trial will be given tShia week. ' I understand that two mm-ere have struck: a quartz reef on the site of the^old Conroy'e. After sinking a shaft to a depth of' ?.Oft they mat a lode a foot wide. Ai crushing of the bton© produced ' splendid, prospecte. Reefing on the Old- Man Range is alswt receiving attention, and a movement _ia - on foot amongst a number of Ihinedin in« vestors towards forming a company to take) over the properties which -are now being worked by Mr Robert Symes, and knowM as White's, j&ray's, and Symee's Reefs. All three are different lodes on different spus»* but in the same neighbourhood. The proposal ia, I understand, to form a company

With » capital of £12,000, amd -tiheTe seems •very" probability of a successful flotation.