WESTPORT MINING.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1188, 4 October 1882, Page 2

WESTPORT MINING.

(From the Westport Times). The lied Queen Gold-mining Company is the name undnr which the amalgamated Auckland, Cleopatra, and Canoe leases are to be registered and worked. The company is to be in 48,000 shares of £1 each. Mr Home has received the appointment of Legal Manager. The traffic on the Puller road is continually on the increase, and calls for the exercise of every effort in fostering it. There are now .sixteen vehicles regularly engaged in the business of carrying between Wesport and the inland townships, employing, of course the same number of, drivers, and over sixty horses. It will thus be seen that the quantity of goods convoyed on the road is very considerable. The quartz from the. Christinas Eve mine, Casarle Creek, which was sent to Dunedin a few weeks ago, for testing, has not yet been crushed, an accident having happened to the machinery. So soon as the damage is repaired the stone will be reduced and the result made known. Mr !Rocco, of Lyell, has been appointed Mining Manager of the Golden Sign Company, Waimangaroa. Mr James Slowey, who has been engaged at the Welcome mine, Boatman's, for years, has received the appointment of Mine Manager to the Guiding Star Company, tJokihinui. There were twelve applications for the post. The shareholders in the Cascade and Buller Companies, at their meeting on Wednesday evening, decided to take ( measures to prove the value ami extent | of the reef known to exist in their ! ground, before proceeding to register ! the company. To this end a call was made on n ednesday evening and, it was resolved to send out two men to prospect. Provisional Directors were also appointed. ' It was resolved, on Wednesday ! evening, by the shareholders in the | Great Northern, Southern Cross, and j Golden Ledge Companies to ainalga- ! mate and register under the name of ! the Great Northern Gold-mining Com- ' pany, in 48,000 shares of £1 each, i Mr Win. Loyd was appointed Legal j Manager.