MINING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2715, 9 March 1916, Page 8

MINING NEWS

WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. There wore again no transactions in the • mining market yesterday. The quotations were as undor Buyers. Sellers, is. d. £ a. d, Murray UTeek 2 5 0 K-ot.i I) 0 2 Wailil -■. 1 15 9 Grand Junction 0 19 3 — THE lIAORAKI REEFS, LTD. The mine manager of the Ilauraki Reefs reports:—'Stuping over No. 3 level is being continued with good results. A total of 601b. picked stone was obtained for the past week in addition to good general dirt. In the stopc cast of ma.in rise some fair crushing dirt was obtained. The reef in the No. 3 and No. 2 faces continue in good country. In the Wynyardtun face strong gold was seen in the quartz, but owing to a, break the reef litis been showing small through the week. VICTORIAN WHEAT GliOl'. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Melbourne, March b. The Victorian Minister for Agriculture (Hon. o'. W. Hagelthorn) estimates the wheat crop of the State at sixty million bushels. The harvest over South Canterbury is now practically finished (says a southern paper), and a large proportion of tho grain is threshed. The quality, especially of the wheat, with lew exceptions, is excellent. Reports of actual yields vary from 50 or even 60 bushels per acre, down to less than 10. It is generally agreed that the average, yield will not' exceed 20 bushels pe;- acre. To build up a successful herd ol cows that will yield the maximum annaul profit, says "Hoard's Dairyman," a man- must look on caclr animal as a highly sensitive mcchanisin, constructed for the purpose of mill, production. He must recognise the close connection the accepted dairy type and milk yield, aiid the importance of good breeding, and the unfailing laws of heredity, The Palmerston branch of the Farm ers' Union, says the "Age," is _still dissatisfied with the purchase of the Mauriceville limo kilns in the interests of the fanners, and is suggesting the formation, of a company to work the WoodviUe lime deposit.