MINING NEWS.
HARTLEY AND RILEY'S DREDGING CLAIM.
A recent telegram announced the ■udden fall of Hartley and Riley shares, and their recovery as suddenly. It appears the men employed on the dredge are allowed to purchase shares. The Tuapeka Times thua refers to this phase of the subject: A! dredgehand on the Hartley •<nd Riley who keeps his eyes lifting md has a turn for speculation, is in .", position to considerably enhance liis weekly wages at the expense 1 of at fevered and watching public. At all events they were given the opportunity, and' if they did not take it the fault is theira In this connection it s amusing to remember that Mr. Fergus, some little time ago, pub himself at the: head of a syndicate of good men solicitous for the public welfare, who proposed founding an institution of some kind whose duty it would be tol watch over the welfare oi mining investor^. And now Mr. Herdman delivers himself thus: The shareholders of the Hartley and Riley Company may not consider'; themselves aggrieved; still we think it our duty to point out that if the affairs of all our dredging companies were similarly managed there would be an end to all confidence in the dredging Industry as an outlet for capital.' ' •
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9616, 19 April 1900, Page 2
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214MINING NEWS. Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9616, 19 April 1900, Page 2
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