DREDGING SHARE MARKET.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 July 1901, Page 3

DREDGING SHARE MARKET.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, This Day. The following sales were recorded at the Dunedin Stock Exchange to-day ;

Complaints are often made by frequenters of the Public Library and Reading Rooms at the scarcity of periodicals and illustrated weeklies on the table of the public room. This is not owing either to the committee, the Secretary, or the librarian, but to the habitues of the room itself. On Saturday the table was covered with periodicals and weeklies. To-day there is not a solitary periodical and with the ex» ception of one or two weeklies, the whole disappeared. It is really too bad of some of those who attend the institute to serve it in this manner. The reading room is open in good faith to the general public in the belief that the publications would be respected, but on the principle that impels people to rob and strip public gardens we suppose the same feeling exists in frequenters of public reading rooms. The various publications are for the use of all, and not for the special benefit of those who have a propensity to desire and too mean to purchase. We understand that the committee have resolved in the interests of the general public, to prosecute any person who is caught in the act of removing anything from the tables, but the real difficulty will bo to catch them.

Wairoa is just now on short commons. Owing to the bar at tho month of the river being in a bad state, the steamers trading from Napier have been unable to take any cargo up for about a fortnight. Three days ago the local stores were clean out of flour, oatmeal, and sugar.

We notice that Mr Lutz of the Wharf Hotel has just commenced the erection of new stables in connection with his hotel.

Good progress is being made with the erection of machinery on* Marsden No. 1 dredge. Three or four weeks should see her in active operations. At present on the West Coast fifteen dredges are in course of liquidation. Smith and party of Dunedin have commenced to prospect by boring the Picanniuni Company’s claim situated on the New River above the Yellowstone Company’s claim. Although Perry’s Reward dredge has been working for about seven weeks and has a good paddock opened out, no returns have as yet been made public. Probably the first return will be published on Saturday. The Grey River dredge has been running smoothly. We hear that the bores put down bottomed 32 and 40 feet respectively. As the dredge is only working to a depth of 23 feet it is evident that the best gold is being left untouched. The Ruby Creek dredge—the fourth one on the Grey River—was completed oh Monday last. The claim is between the Ford’s Creek and Grey River Com. panys’ ground. As soon as the river has risen sufficient the dredge will be moved to where it is inteded to commence operations. It will take at least a month to open out a paddock, so na returns need be expected tor five wseks.

At the instance of the Greymouth representative (Mr W. Keehnie), in the Counties Conference on Thursday, penalties for plying for hire across a stream near a bridge or ferry at which tolls are payable, were made to apply to the use of a ‘ horse, vehicle, or other means,” as well as boat or punt. Proceedings grew so tre Diocesan Synod in Wellington that the representatives of the Press were requested to leave the room, and they left accordingly.

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Dunedin, This Day. Sligo Brothers report the following quotations to-day Puller Junction .. Os Od Grey Consols .. 7s Gd Leviathan .. 16s Od Mokoia .. 23s Od Nelson Creek .. 59s Od 59s Od Pactolus .. 28s Od Beeves .. 13s Od 14s 3d Trafalgar, dis .. Is 6d Victory, dis .. Os 9d 2s Od