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Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9209, 28 June 1898, Page 4

ALPINE EXTENDED MINE." MINE MANAGER'S REPORT. (from our own correspondent.) Ltell, June 25. StoplDgbftß been oontinued at the bick ot the No 10 main Booth level and the reef ia the lower slopes is now more clean thin it was las) week and varies ia width from , three to eight feet, In the upper ttopsi very little stone remains to be taken ont. The contractors for driving the No 11 level somh, started work yesterday. There ia now very little stone in tbe face in tbe etopea. At the b*ok of thia level the reef ia from four to six feet in width, all clean s'one. The drive in No 1 le\el has been extended a farther distance of 15 feet without meeting any ohange in the country, Woik was then discontinued here and a sisri made to croßSont from abont forty feet down the crrinecting winze between Nos 1 and 4 levels in order to intersect at a lower level the t-aok of reef upon whioh the drive in No 1 level W9B driven. Tbe cumber ef tons of stone aent to the battery is 215 and the scraping ot',tbe top plates jielded 110£oz) amalgam from 212 tons of stone. THE PROVINCES. The mayor of Picton has been entrusted with the task of preparing a memorial to the Bight Hon G. J. Goschen, First Lord of tbe Admiralty setting forth in detail the advantage offered by Queen Charlotte Sound and Picton as i* site for a New Zealand naval station. A boy between 14 and 15 years of age was found guilty at Lyttleton of some inhuman tricks. He was charged with burning the lips and and eyebrows of a small boy with a