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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 239, 15 July 1872, Page 3

A change has come over the spirit of the Independent's dream, and it actually has commenced to acknowledge that the San Francisco service is approaching dissolution. A paragraph this morning commences : “ Mr H. H. Hall has taken advantage of the break-dowu.” Though our contemporary has not been trained up in the path in which lie should go, he has accidentally s'umbled upon it. May he continue iu it! — Post. The usual statement of atfairs in several goldmining companies is published in yesterday’s Gazette. Seven of these companies possess between them £lO Is 6d cash in hand. Out of twenty-three whose statements are published, eighteen have declared no dividends at all, and the remaining five have paid dividends to t’ne amount of £lß,llß 10s, of which the Moaaataiari Co. has contributed £13,485. So «ays the Wellington Post, bat it entirely forgets to mention the six companies gazetted whose statement of accounts shows the pay merit of more than £BOO,OOO in dividends, Y