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PROSPECTUS • OF THE pOXJRTEEN MILE BEACH i 1 QUAFvTY MINING COM FANY. To bo Registered under tbo Mining Companies Limited Liability Acts. Capital, £3OOO, in Shares of £1 each. The Prospectors retain to themselves Six Hundred paid up Shaves, and the rereinainiiig two thousand four hundred are offered to the Public in the manner following, viz.—ls. to be paid on application, 2s. on allottment. and the remainder in calls not to exceed 2s. 6d., until the Capital of the Company is called up. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. GEORGS MAC KAY, Roxburgh, JAMES VvOODHOIbSE, Roxburgh THOMAS CAMERON, R xburgh, JOHN KINNARSTUN, Roxburgh, GEORGE BIDGOOD, Roxburgh, GEORUE IRELAND, Roxburgh, JOSEPH TAMLYN, Coal Creek, M. C. MANUAL, Coal Creek, PETER BOYD, Bankers BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. The Ground of the Company consists < f about live acres, adjacent to the Fourteen Mile Beach, through which the ’-ecf runs for a distance of 1200 feet. The reef, si far as has been prospected, is well defined, md varies in thickness from S to 22 inches, mtl several experienced miners have expressed it as their opinion, that, from the nature of the ground through which tie reef run? there can be no doubt as to its permanency There has been a trial crushing of a ten of stone from the reef a, the Government .attery, which yielded better than 9 dwts. ,f gold, but the character of the stone sent could not be considered a" average sample, i: being largely intermixed with mullock. - Besides this tiial there has been a fewsmall teds, none of which yielded less than at the rate of 3 ounces tn'the ton, and one tr-st at the Bank of New Zealand Roxburgh yielded at : the rate of nearly ooz to the ton. From the situation of the reef every facility is afforded for working it, as the qu ir'z to a dep hof 400 feet, can bo extrade t by means of tunnelling, which may he c mini- nee A on the reef in. the Company's groun l, at a 41)0 feet level. There is also a water race on the Com* pany’s ground, containing an ample supply of water far tlie working of a battery 0 f any number of stamps up to fifty he-.d, and this may be cither purchased in whole or part on the most rea-.oiiable terms from the proprietors. It U proposed, as soon as 1200 shares are disposed »f, to convene a General Meeting of the shareholders, to make the nec-.ES3.iy arrangements for the working of the Company. Ail applications to be made to the Secretary, J. C. SAVAGE, Roxburgh. TO QUARTZ MINING COMPANIES, &c. non SALE, by Private Contract, tho whole of. the PROP E R T Y OF Til'S ■CONROY'S QUARTZ REEF MINING COMPANY, Near Alexandra, and compiising: A 26-feet iron Water-wheel Stamning Battery of five heads, complete, with Hippie and Copper Plate, Tables, A ma'gamating Barrel, <kc. Large quantity of Quicksilver lion Truck and about 200 yards oi Tramway Rails Blacksmith’s Forgo and Kit of Tools Lot of Mining and other Tools Quantity of Foies and Driving Timber Iron House, and a large quantity of Pp'pertv, in all forming a compleb Pi.iii for working a Quartz Claim and battery. The whole to be Sold at a Moderate Price, on Easy Terms. For particulars apply (o JAMES RIVERS, Secretary. Alexandra, Dec. 4, 1872. DRYBREAD RACES. OWNERS of RACE HORSES and Visitors will find J. Mellor’s BALLARAT HOTEL. Tinker's Gully. To lo an economic nudpha>ant place of 'journ. A commodious range ol s!a ling and line lomy loose boxes, FOR SALE. A first class SPRING CART, nearly new, also, a goad DOG CART. Apply GEO. FACIIE. A u-elie user, I Clyde.

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Dunstan Times, Issue 557, 20 December 1872, Page 3

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Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 Dunstan Times, Issue 557, 20 December 1872, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 Dunstan Times, Issue 557, 20 December 1872, Page 3

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