The company, consisting of five gentle men from Christeaurch, was niet by Mr S. Gibbons, one of the shareholders in the .dredge, and under his guidance were shown over it. To the person who sees a modern gold dredge for the first time it presents a somewhat peculiar appearance. All the machinery is built over and all that meets the eye is the corrugated iron walls and roof which, enclose it, the elevator ladder at the stem, the chimney of the boiler, and the "pulpit heads," where the contents of the buckets are "tumbled", into the screen. The dredge is 75ft in length and her beam is 30ft to 27ft at the bow. While the bow line was being attended to we were shown the machinery. The engine was made by Messrs Marshall and Sons of Gainsborough, England, and the nominal horse power is twelve, but at a pinch, twenty-five. The boiler was made by Crabtree, of Wellington, ami Messrs John Anderson and Sons, of Christohureb, supplied the winches and lad ders. The buckets, which have a capacity of four and a, half cubic feet, and other parts of the machinery, were constructed by Stevenson and Co., Duned'in. The driving wheels are about 3ft in» diameter, and the belting, in order to etand the heavy strain is very wide and proportionately strong. There & in addition a dynamo to provide tlie electric light with which the dredge is to be fitted up, Mr Horton, a,n electrician from Keefton, having arrived on the day of our visit to superintend the installation Going to the stem of the dredge the screen and the gold saving tables were next ex plained. The screen is a large cylinder perforated with small .holes through which the fine dirt with the gold is washed through on to the gold saving tables. This is per formed by means of water continuously playing on it from a pipe running the whole length of the .screen, the continuous supply bemg secured by pumping. The water brought up by the buckets, of coud*, also helps in the process. Tie screen Iβ sft in diameter and 22ft in length. There are five tables, which are inclined towards the edge of the dredge, earih bekng three feet wide, and their total length 18ft. 