Resolution—This ground is broadside to the Inkerman, Reward, and corner on to the All Nations. The venture was placed on the market without a word of pre announcement on Saturday evening at 6d per share (24,000), and was subscribed nearly twice over in the space of twenty minutes. The scene at Wise's office, where the business was done, was quite amusing, the crowds of eager applicants bustling one another as though their very lives de pended upon their getting on the share list, and a little later the shares were selling at a premium. The local brokers are having a "high old time " of it just now, and as they are practically " running the show," the earnings must be large. The number of brokers, too, is almost daily increasing, and all sorts and conditions of men are crowding into the ranks. With the desire to place a check upon the number of persons starting as brokers, the Associated Brokers talk of increasing their entrance fee to .£SO, but should they do so the only result will be probably that an opposition associa tion will be started.
The following are the battery returns for the past week: —Keep It Dark, 1930z amalgam for 170 tons; Globe, 1450z amalgam for 185 tons; Progress, 2120z amalgam for six days; Inkerman, 198oz amalgam from 80 tons; Inglewood, 730z amalgam from 60 tons; Lone Star, 420z retorted gold from 225 tons.
