MINING NEWS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 15 September 1904, Page 5

MINING NEWS.

The height of the river at the Alexandra bridge last evening was 4ft. Sin. above the "normal" mark. The Mmuherikia dredge is the only machine now working in the gorge below Alexandra, the others having * ji a d to stop owing to the rise of the river, and the consequent heavy drift, A sranewhat >r v vnt case was heard at Clyde on Saturday before Mr Burgess. A winchraan named Reid, was appointed caretaker by the Davis Bend Co at full wages. For three weeks he wo-ked a shift on the Monte Ohristo dredge, for which he also got lull pay. News of this coming to the Davis Bend they declin-i to pay him the wages for the th-ee weeks he was working on the Monte Ohristo, and he su*-i for the amount. Mr Brodrick appeared for the defendant company and Mr Huttoa for the plaintiff, and evidence was given by a number of dredgemasters ar.d other witnesses. Toe deciron was in favor of the company, the plaintiff being mulcted in ce- , about £B. The directors of t'>e Manuherikia Dredging Company have declf a dividend of Is per share, payable tomorrow. At the fifth annual meeting of the Manuhedkia Gold DredgiDg Company, held at Dunedin on Friday (Mr W T Talboys presiding), the report ? id balance sheet were adopted, and Messrs Joseph M'George and W T Talboys were re-elected directors, the directors remuneration being fixed at £7O, the I aame as last year. Messrs Crawford and Bartleman were re-elc ited auditors at the same remuneration as previous ly. It was stated by the directors thaf ginoe they had put bows to the dredge and lengthened the ladder the dredge vras an exceptionally good one, and wo uld be fit to work out the claim, which was perfectly good for the next jkree or four years. The one thing that troubled them was that, being so close to' the Manuherikia River, they were always liable to meet with far more drift than practically in any other part of the Molyneux, because the-e was so much sluicing going on on the Manuherikia,

DREDGING RETURNS.

oa dwta gr New Roxburgh Jubilee 163 11 0 Cromwell No 1. Cromwell, ... K!ectric No. 2, Cromwell 105 14 1 100 2 0 Electric No 1, Cromwell 56 1 0 Bandy Point, Alexandra, Lead, Alexandra. 43 1 12 47 IT C Sneddon's Freehold, Waikaka ... 41 0 o flailoiVn Bend, 42 15 0 Taniwha, Tnapeka Kiver 39 2- 0 Biaing Sun. Upper Clutha ... 36 0 0 Rise and Shine, Up'er Clutbi ... 36 2 0 Perseverance No. 2. Alexandra . 35 0 0 Hanuherikia, Alexandra, 83 5 0 Royal \» aimuma, near uon. 32 o 0 3 0 0 Matau, Clyde, Upper Waipori, Waipori. 28 16 0 Otago, Miller's Flat, 28 10 0 Unity, Clyde.28 lO 0 Majestic, Miller's Flat. Junction El No 1, Cromwell 28 0 0 27 4 0 Earnscleugh No 1. Alexandra, ... 26 10 0 Waikaka Syndicate, Waikaka ... 26 o 0 Waikaka United No I, Waikaka 24 1 0 Waimumu, near Gore. 24 1 0 First Chance, Alexandra 24 0 0 Garden Gully. Waikaka 23 12 0 Enfield, Wa>pori, 23 13 12 Waikaka United No 2, Waikaka 23 8 0 Junction ElectricNo 2, Cromwell 23 2 0 Waikaka Queen. Waikaka .,, 22 9 0 Enterprise No I, Alexandra 22 8 15 Central Charlton, rearCioro. 21 Id o Ettrick, Roxb rgh. 134hrs 21 10 0 Molyneux Hydraulic, 21 5 0 Waikaka, Wa .aka, !: 14 0 Enterprise No . Alexandra ... 20 2 0 Waimumu Queen 19 14 0 Island Block, Beaumont, 1Q 5 o Hartley and Riley, Cromwell .. . 0 0 Happy Valley, Tuapeka. wk lb 15 0 Junction Waikaka, Waikaka IS 3 0 Alpine No 2 Cromwell 1G 18 15 Gabriel, Tuapeka Fiat16 8 0 New Golden Beacb, Alexandra 16 S 0 Olrig, Manuherikia, 15 lo 0 MacCharltoa. near Gore, 5 4 0 Hessey's Waikaia 13 17 0 New Fairdcwn, Waikaka 13 5 0 Inchdale, near Palmereton, . 12 16 0 Lady Roxburgh, Roxburgh . 12 o o Moa No 2, Alexandra . 11 0 0 Otago No 2, Beaumont, 11 0 0 Molyneux Kohinoor, Roxburgh 7 U 18 Zotal 1633 12 19