DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 65, 9 November 1912, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

“MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.”

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, November 8

The message in the bottle purporting to have been signed by a member of the crew of the missing dredge Manchester, was received by the Marine Department to-day. It is written in violet ink pencil on a piece of foolscap, roughly cut to note paper size. The message is being sent to the Lyttelton Harbour Board to cbmparo the signature with that of Lambert, which is in the Board’s possession.

DUNEDIN TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Dunedin, November 8

At a meeting of the managers of the Technical School to-day, the tender of McLellan for the erection of a new building was accepted, the price is £2642 17s 4d deductions having been made on acocunt of modifications of plans. Mr White’s tender was originally accepted, but it was subsequently found that its acceptance was illegal as the Board was not properly constituted and he recently withdrew.

ALLUVIAL MINING

Westport, November 8

The Carthago Gold Mines, Limited, a small colhpany, formed here some time back, has successfully solved the problem of working our low lying bead) gold leads. The mine has been making a steady profit of £l2 to £l3 per day, and it is confidentially predicted that the whole of the beaches from Westport to Ngakawa will now be worked on thfir principle, which is the invention of a local man. The fact that those sands can be raised and treated for a penny per yard is a factor in gold mining that must give the whole of this West Coast a fillip, as there arc many miles of similar beaches from Cape Farewell to Jackson’s Bay.