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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 76, 30 March 1874, Page 4

P.ALMER EiVER DIGGINGS. The Sydney Morning Herald publishes tbe : following document : — . • ■ . Cooketowo, Feb. 14. We, the undersigned miners, beg that you will publish the following resolutions passed at a public meeting held at CoofcstdwD, February 10 : — \», Tjhat the. reports printed in the papers of th.e colonies concerning the large amounts of gold that have been got ( pn the Palmer are altogether ex?ggf rate^j and must have come from ■ interested parties, and not from miners ' 2. That no gold haa been got. or is getting, to warrant so large a rush as is setting in here. "r ■s.,' That what gold has. been got has qnlyj come uiroaL crevices in tbe rocks over which the river is running. '4s That' the roads are at present impassable on account of tbe heavy rainfalls iere. • : -5i That plenty- of known miners have returned from the Palmer, who all .give a; very poor account of the fush as ad extensiye gold field. .6, That we. miners advise people intending to come here to remain where they arej and people determined to come, to w.ait till Apri l . j- 7. Provisions can at present not be packed at' all to the Palmer, and, if practicable, would cost 2s 3d per lb. for Jaqkjng.: This is signed by eighteen Victorian miners. > 'A San Francisco couple were recently married in a ballopn, at an elevation of Bev.eral hundred feet from the eartb. , !A clever dealer in milk at Clifton has done the right thing at last. He ta^ea hie cow' round with him, and J^tails^^ r fljuid, produced in . the presenceofjbiß customer, at sixpence per qtiartl This te the best answer to the Adulteration Act, for "Simpson" can have no possible chance with milk retailed under such novel and satisfactoryjp;r'oi^[fß^aiiceß.~ Western Press. A correspondent of. the American Stock Journal writes, in reply to tbe query, IJowlfttlejland will keep a cow? Bs;followe:— On the first day of June last I commenced cutting clover for one^co.w confined in a yard enclosed by 4;high tiglit board fence, with a stable attached, in Which she has been fed. She haß had no feed but fresh cut clover. from 'the Ist June to the 15th October, and all taken from one-fourth of an acre of ground.' She has averaged IBf;,qtitirt8 L of; strained milk per day, f!^h(iqh my wife has, made Blbs of butter per week, during the four and a jbiif. 1 The cow is five years old.' and across of the Ayrshire and Durban);.. She, has, given more milk, m.Qr&Jbuttei\ and of a better quality, than she has ever done on pasture. On another fourth of an acre, by mowing four times, I bav,e secured two tons of good. hay. . On one-eighth of . an, acre I^have raised 150 buisbels of sugar beet and carrots, which, with: the two tons o,f v hajfy .wall, keep her handsomely through ih£ balance- of the year; befijdep^,,the m^pura saved is quite an jfewo'i-1 -•' /. .-" '."•■' ; r ; IVjjiiffftg Cjdmpaiiies Notices. PJEfiSSYEfiANOE MININO COMPANY ' ~" ' (REGISTERED). Jks.it requires, the consent of the majority in ' .' tLufaffbgr.' and, value of, the Shareholders in ' tbw Company to enable the Directors to t giyeejßFect tpthe-^Resoiutidnspassed at the General Meeting, held on the 24th March, therefore, ' " . ' AN EXTRA.C-KP.JNARX MEETING of the 'Shareholders w/h be held at the Odd-Fhllows' Hall, Nelson, on THURSDAY, April 23rd, at 7-30 p.m., thti.yoteitdfiiheShareholderßwill be taken to.'ajscf plain whether the majority, in number lind- value are.for winding-up the Company. V A Cireularapd Pibxy-Paper will be posted to each Shareholder. Those unable to attend that Meeting, arid are in' favour of windingup, are particularly requested to sign the 7 Paper ftuthprisingisome. person to vote The Proxy-Papers must be sent to the Office of the Compaßyr without delay. JOHNvB. MABIN, 807 Legal Manager. COLLLINGWOOD COAL MINING COMPANY' (REGISTERED.) FTIHEj TENTH HALF-YEARLY GENE- :•]*[. RAL -MEETING of the SHARE- ; HOLDERS- in this Company will be held at StJHAPKit's Hotel j Collingwood, on WEDNES- ■ DAY Evening, the Bth 6f April next, it Eight o'clock. .'■• .:■ Buswbss,: : To; receive Directors': Report and Balance ; ; Sheet, and., to elect 'Ahree Directors in , place, of Messrs, Fikl.p, Cross, and Webster, who retire but are eligible for re-election. M.M. WEBSTER, 1 • r Legal Manager. Nelson, March 18, 1874. 694—3 ENERGETIC QUARTZ- MINING COMPANY (REGISTERED.) rEIENDERS Wanted for the PURCHASE JL of a Twelve Horse-power Portable ENGINE and BOILEB, complete, and in good working order. Tenders to Close on THURSDAY, the 2nd April, 1874, at noon. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. G. W, MOSS, Legal Manager. Greymouth, March 24, 1874. 752 THE LARRY'S CREEK GOLDMINjENG COMPANY (LIMITED). N EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of JOL the SHAREHOLDEKS in tha above 'Company will be held at tbe Office of Messrs. Taplbjt, Davis, & Co , Reef ton, on the 18th day of April, 1874, at 3 O'clock, p.m. r ''Bl&SitfEi&s'i To adopt Rules for the Com- ? "pa^y, and td elect Directors and Auditors. '[ ;}■; '• ,' ; ROBERT TAPHUY, 74& — 4 ' Manager. CHAMELEON TOPS. %&:*■■■''■■- • -''- At B. LUOAB & SON'S.