Canterbuby. I No. IRink. ■■l^uu-j-.-J ;| W A Comerford J A lexarider ; ' ' ' -1 W Hargood J'Carl ■= ; '■ ; J Nelson G-A Coleraan- — i J Hogg {skip) ... 14 H Oakley 19 \ No. 2 Rink. " 7'| 1 T Johnston J Tooney • J O Bentloy. G B Woodman ; P Blackley ' V W Parsons • T Mackenzie (skip) 11 B Hale (skip): JL. 29 1 • No.-3Tlink...->'-r,0;; ][ *y. : :T P,aterson. H Tooraeri f sen.- ' D' B Sie v w right J Delbridge i,\ ri ' X ' W, Wilson H J Raphael. ; > 3 G W Hutchiris (skip) 15 RTooraer^ jr. (skip).. 29 Total ... 40 Totiil i;n ; 'j!/ 4 77 ',

The Tiiapeka correspondent off |the Evening Star writes : — From accounts" to -. hand by the mail, which has. just reached here, the Home shareholders' in the 1 Bine. Spur and Gabriel Gully Consolidated Gold ' Company are hardly satisfied, .with the wayin which -things are "'panning, out.". Instead of monthly (and,, then snbse- • quently quarterly) dividends, at/the^fate of from 20 to 25 per cent. , the discovery is made that theicompany's claihi ia >pay- , ing little more than working expenses, and the local directors' 5 salaries^' v Alltliough. about 10 months in operation, the, Qab'riel Tailings Company's, mine, which' .was, ' according to the prospectus, tOj'giseya , re* turn of LI, OOO clear profit, or a little over ' L 1,500 clear profit weekly, Ah&Bitidtuyet yielded. L 5,000, or- a ~]ittlerqyer~Ll'jsoO clear profit.. One can; hardly wonder at dissatisfaction springing up among 'the shareholders at Home!: when' the, jackal results i ,of , the company's operations are ' placed.before them. Stpjijt, who took great credit ; to "himself jsome time ago in effecting the sale of the ; jßlue Spur claims, was- here .about a rfortnight"^ago trying to arrange, on; behalf of <he|Home : 'directorate,^ for an extension of^ki]^ie^ T for the final payment of the purchase-mdney^ due in about a couple of months' ■time. As : all the original; : shareholders') in^(the Spur were taken aback at this~request, time was allowed ijhem.to; make uplstheir minds. 1 Since then some -of ; the, companies , have met,. .and , in every ; ins^ancej t^ey liave passed resolutions ; : not.to^ accede ' r Sir Robert's request. 