GOLD DREDGING RETURNS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 December 1901, Page 3

GOLD DREDGING RETURNS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Dunedin, December 29,

Daring the week ended to-day returns weiv reported from 12 dredges, the total gold yield being 257 ozs 10 dwts 13 grs or an average of 21 ozs per dredge.

News from the Islands has reached Sydney to the effect that the wreck found at Blear Island some months ago is supposed to be the ship Manchester, bound from Philadelphia to Japan with a cargo of kerosene, and which, it is believed was lost with all hands. The schooner Santa Cruz, bound from Hongkong to the Carolines is missing and believed to have been lost with all hands.

Two men each received a month’s sentence at Christchurch the other day for soliciting alms. One of the accused threatened a crossing keeper that if he didn’t give him a half crown his mate would stick up the train at Eiccarton.

Some commotion was caused at the New Plymouth breakwater the other night. While the work of putting the baggage, etc., on the s.s. Takapuna was in full swing a tin trunk, which, it was stated, contained the samples of a jewellery traveller, slipped out, dropped into the sea, and sank out of sight. The owner od learning of his loss was greatly perturbed in mind, and implored the assistance of the officers to regain his lost treasure. He, however, was compelled to leave his treasure behind, on the understanding that it would be recovered the next day and forwarded to him. The trunk was recovered by a diver, and when opened the contents were found to consist of several hundreds of gold and silver watches/ tho value of which, according to the “Taranaki Herald,” was estimated'at between £2OOO and £3OOO.

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