PROVINCIAL NEWS.
[united press association.]
Wellington, May 8. Messrs Luke and Sons, founders, have received instructions to build a 300-ton steamer for Captain Williams, coal merchant, Wellington. The vessol is intended for the West Coast coal trcle.
The cake of gold exhibited in Wellington as having hien obtained from the Queen of Beauty mine, Makara,
was sent to Melbourne mint through the Colonial Bank. The result of the assay has just been received from the mint authorities by the manager of the mine, and is as follows :—Weight before melting, 15oz ; weight after melting, 14oz 9dwt 4gr ; standard, 10.496 ; value £3 17s per ounce, £4O 17s sd; fine silver, at 4s 6d per ounce, £1 Os 6d; total value, £4l 17s lid.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2398, 9 May 1884, Page 2
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