GOLD DREDGING RETURNS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 July 1901, Page 3

GOLD DREDGING RETURNS.

Noth.— The figures after the name of the dredge represent the number of hours worked during the week.

(per press association.) OTAGO. Dunedin, July 26. ozs. dwts.

A girl 14 years of age was committed at Melbourne on the 2nd instant by Judge Ohomley to a rerormatory for mixing a spoonful of carbolic acid with the food of a boy aged 11, who had annoyed her. She was employed as a nurse girl by the boy’s parents.

Wreckage, comprising furniture, pianos, general merchandise, chaff, flour, barrels, beer cases, spirits, commercial travellers’ sample boxes, bedding and clothes are strewn along the bank of the Murray, where the steamer Shannon was recently wrecked,

The Premier of Queensland says that there is a deficit in the finances of that State of £500,000. The drought was largely responsible for decrease in the railway returns.

At Marseilles, a boy fourteen years of age, who has been blind in one eye since his birth, and came there to embark for America, quarrelled with a porter, who dealt him itwo formidable blows on the left eye—the blind one. The eye was attended to, and when the bandage was removed a few days afterwards the boy found that he could see perfectly with both eyes.

WEST COAST. ozs. dwts. Buller Junction (123)... 26 10 Pactolus ( 130 ) 25 10 A.l (week) 18 18 Maori Queen (124) ... 10 10 Leviathan (129) 9 12

Alpine II. ... 104 0 Sailor'* Bend ... 105 1 Alpine Consols ... 41 5 Central Electric ... 33 11 Waimumu Queen ... 32 13 Waimumu ... 28 14 First Chance ... ... 23 1 Hartley and Riley ... 22 12 Enterprise II ... ... 22 0 Enterprise I ... ... 19 6 Charlton Creek ... 17 0 Vincent Extended ... 14 15 Globe ... 9 10