MINING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 3

MINING.

«— — . COPPER ORB. n?E» Pkess Association..! • , L NELSON- August 20. The Mineral Belt Cower S^ffrN^T ntnick a lode in No. 5 level of the United works -will "be erected. I>EEI>CtING- RETURNS. rPER Pnnss Association. J L DTJNT2.DIN, August 29. Dredfeiug Ilfitumv. —Perseverance *>o. L inlrlrn 220z, Wnikak* Syndicate S4oz, SSo J?o I Aw lOdwt, Gate 18o 2 stock 230z, yel»o»gwkaaoK^_ The latest bird to become extinct i* &*■ California* condor, the spread of whose Swas 12ft. Four hundred^potinds * offered for -an egg, but none has been found for seventeen veara. ' , -, "Travelled?" said a brown-faced sailor in a South-Eastern train to a -P»««|K« who had. questioned him.. "I rtojild think I "aye I've bin all* round the world ; hover an 1 hundex it, too. There ain't many portg fdon't know the binaide of." "Why, you must know a lot about geography, said hia hearer, and Jack, having furrowed hia brow with momentary though saKi : . n ?> vus; we did put in there once—only , to coal though- Taint much of »pla««> what i -i«^^;^itJf.^ ..;,..... ■ „.■-.:/.