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Kumara Times, Issue 940, 4 October 1879, Page 4

The manager of the Mount Rangitoto Silver Mining Company reports having but one ton of dressed ore through the amalgamating barrel last week with the result of 4120 a of amalgam, which will be forwarded to Auckland or Melbourne shortly, for the purpose of separating the gold from the Bilver.

The Keepit-Dark Company's battery re turns for last week show a marked improvement, the quantity of amalgam obtained being 3490zs 3dwt, from 168 tons of stone. At a meeting of the directors of the company, held on Saturday evening last, a dividend, the 18th, of sixpence per share was declared.

When the members of the House of Representatives were sworn in they were called up to the table in batches of four, who shared the solitary Bible among them. It was a singular thing that the Premier and the leader of the Opposition chanced to be included in the Baine quartet, and were thii3 cworn together. It would, however, be improper to term them sworn brothers.

The balance-sheet of the Wellington Tramway Company shows a credit balance of L 704 11 lid. There is a charge of L 1945 7s 3d for interest, which absorbs the balance. The unpaid ca]Js amount to L 1945 15s.

The case of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company, owning the line of Bteamshipa plying b-tween Baltimore and Boston v the Firemen's Insurance Company on a policy of insurance on the hteam&r George Appold, and involving the question of general average, was decided in the Maryland Superior Cou.it (Judge Dobbin) on Ju D e 13. Some time since, the steamer, while lying at the wharf, Savannah, Ga., laden with cotton, took fire. To save the vessel and cargo she was flooded with water. The Joss by damage to the vessel and cargo by fire and water was abont 12,000 dols. The damage to the cargo was adjusted by general average, the vessd bearing its proportion. The plaintiffs claimed that they were not only entitled to recover for the actual injury to the veesel by fire, but the general average assessment upon the ship as an immediate proximate result of the fire. The defendant tendered the amount for damage to the ship by fire, but denied the right to recover for general average loss upon the cargo as a risk not within the terms of !he policy The decision wm for the defendant, on the ground that the general average assessment upon the ship for loss of cargo was not within the risk assumed. The case will be taken to ihe Court of Appeals. There ate about twenty cases in. the Superior Court depending in the final decision.—Mitchell's Maritime Register,