Mr Leslie A. Horman, reports having received the following wire from the legal manager of the Mount Highlay Consolidated Q.M. Company (Limited), Hyde:-" The company washed up yesterday, the result being 71oz of retorted gold from 150 tonß of quartz. A lew hours later the manager again wired mjing:-•; Be Mount Highlay. The reef fsßtt wide! nd with the appliances we have erected 3dwt per m will pay all the cost of reduction and raising " By private s dvices received in the colony by last

mail we learn that the London board of directors the Blue, bpur Consolidated Gold Company (Limited have resolved to go into liquidation and reconstitute fclie company on a new basis. She plates of the ;Croesus Company, Nenthorn were scraped on Thursday, after running IU hours' Thr fl m ™,HCl^ riodßo •° ns of Bton<>were reduced: f»i^l al} rlfe f 10U8.We^ th of the dist™t- Given a fair Bupply of water the golden gravels in the Box burgh district especially will yield good return, Some little excitement has been created at Nen thorn by the discovery of two new reefs, both carry- BuUa-Zea^andia^ 6 ar6 Baid to be °° "^

taSr, f B?h °J} M? cd. from the crushing of stone taken from the Break-o'-Day Company's reef, Nen thorn, reduced inKincaidand M'Queen's battery o Vf a Xoridperlo^Sterdari tha result &ng *»* «S MrR. E. Fletcher, A.1.8.8, .known in New Zea land m connection with the successful installations of electric transmission of power at the Phomixmine, lighting at the Mosgiel Woollen Factory, and who superintended the installations at the Adelaide and .Melbourne.exhibitions, notifies mining agentß.&c, that he will be in Dunedin on Tuesday next.
SPORTING.
NENTHORN RACES.
