2s 5d, buyers 1s 6d; Waterhall (pro.), sellers, 2s; Yilgarn, sellers 2s.
Tin: Bunbury (pro.) sellers 4s 6d; Floyd (pro.), sellers 1s; Greenbushes
(pro.), sellers 3d; Spring Gully (pro.) sellers 9d.  Investment Stocks:
Perth G s, sellers 27s, buyers 26s.

THE TIN FIELDS.

A correspondent, writing from Bunbury, under date the 18th inst., states:
— "Last week fourteen tons of tin were brought into Bunbury.  There are at
present about sixteen tons lying on the field fit for market.  The
prospects of the field are steadily improving."

THE EXCHANGE G.M. COMPANY.

Mr Edwin S. Mansfield, legal manager of the above Company, has handed us
the following report, dated Southern Cross, August 11: For the week ending
August 9, 1890, I have sunk the shaft at mine a further distance of five
feet, making a total depth of 102 feet, reef about 3 feet wide; make about
200 gallons of water every twenty-four hours.  At machine I have been
covering the boiler in with stone work, which will keep the cold air from
the naked iron, and consequently steam better and be a great saving of
firewood; also I have shifted exhaust pipes so as to condense as much
steam as I can with the small amount of pipes I have on hand.  I have also
had to repair all rollers in well, which will work much better I am sure
when we start again.  I have also excavated about 20 chains of drains to
the dam, to conserve as much water as possible.

TIN DISCOVERY NEAR LAKE MUIR.

Mr Andrew Muir has written to Mr Councillor Muir, states the Advertiser
(Albany) of the 15th inst., informing him that a party of prospectors have
made an important discovery of tin on the Topanup River near Lake Muir.
The tin is described as good as that got at Greenbushes.  Lake Muir can be
reached, we understand, by road from Albany, Mount Barker, or Cranbrook.
It is a fresh-water lake, estimated to be three times as large as Princess
Royal Harbor [sic].

THE YUIN GOLD REEFS.

A SUCCESSFUL CRUSHING IN SYDNEY.

[BY TELEGRAPH.]

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

GERALDTON, Aug. 19.
The following telegram has just been received from Mr Benjamin James of
Sydney: "Half ton of stone from Yuin, resulted in 19 dwts. 14 grains gold.
 Fennel left yesterday."

and Bernd have discovered alluvial gold north-east of Cruickshank's
station.  I have been shown a fine nugget weighing 1 1/2 oz., which is set
to have come from the same locality.

and started the battery again on Sunday night.  Yield 71 oz. from 120 tons
of stone, a little over nine days' crushing.  Rise from bottom level to
immediate shaft, 4 feet.  Still carrying the stope south back of immediate
level.  Gold showing in the face rise from back of same level 17 ft.  The
air in it is becoming light: if much lighter will have to sink from the
surface to meet it.  Shifted the men from the north cutting, and put them
to break stone where I got a prospect north of the furthest shaft south on
the lease.  A set of steel shoes, five of the old dies, four pinion
wheels, five drums of oil, and one case with canvas and other things
arrived on the 30th.  Re a main shaft to work the mine, as I am doing at
present, will require extra hands to sink it.  As a probable cost here for
the first 100 feet, taking all the drawbacks into consideration, such as
want of skilled labour, and high price of timber, I dare say from £7 to £8
per foot.  — (Signed)
HENRY RYAN.

been prosecuted with fair success.  The battery has worked eleven full
days of 24 hours, crushing 120 tons of stone, from which the return of
gold is 134 ozs., troy, (smelted), equal to 1oz. 2dwts. 8grs. per ton.
The workings at Fraser's shaft continues opening up just as usual; no
particular remark to make on it.  I have been prospecting on the lode near
the South shaft and am having loaders made to develop as deep as possible
there.  This work must remain in abeyance pending the arrival of the new
Tangye pump, when I will proceed with energy on this ground.  I had the
boiler and engine thoroughly examined on Sunday and yesterday,
necessitating a stoppage in crushing of 24 hours; this will be considered
in the next fortnight's work.  I am pleased to say that all parts of the
machinery appear in perfect condition."

the Murchison, a fortnight ago, returns with supplies to-morrow.  The man
is very reticent in giving particulars of the find.

the fortnight.  Cleaned up at the battery.  Yield 66 oz. 4 dwts. from 100
tons of stone.  The small amount of stone crushed was owing to stoppages.
Had one stoppage through the pump bucket having slipped from the coupling
down the working barrell [sic], although working for several days; also
having to clean out the pump shaft besides stoppages through want of
water.  It will be necessary to sink a main shaft or the Tangeys shaft
deeper for a supply.  If the directors can see their way clear to sink a
main shaft, it certainly would be best.  Would then be in a position to
work and prospect the mind properly from it.  Should the Tangye shaft have
to be sunk for more water will require before starting it a few lengths of
each size pipe 1 in., 1 1/2 in., and 2 1/2 in.  To try and make up for
some of the lost time, I ran the battery till Sunday morning, at 7
o'clock, and then cleaned off afterwards.  Had one of the stamper shanks
break close to the head; got it welded yesterday; now fitting it.  Having
broken so near, the head gives a good deal of trouble to fit.  Also the
engine shaft having worked low had to be lifted and liners put under it,
which necessitated lifting the Cam shaft.  I have started No. 2 stope
South, back of intermediate level, rise from same level up 25 feet.
Stopped it for a little time, and put the men stoping.  I am raising the
usual amount of stone from the deep cutting.  Stoping it underhand makes
it slower getting.  I am also breaking stone South of the underlie shaft.
I would have had a better yield this time, had the stoppages not occurred.

It stoping from the bottom level and taking the full width of the lode, I
would be able to break more stone with fewer hands and would require less
labour to handle the quartz as I would have shoots through the workings to
run the stone down.  As it is I am only stoping from the intermediate
level and taking a portion of the lode on the footwall side, causing more
labour by so doing, having to leave the Western portion of the lode secure
for future working.  Another disadvantage not having a main shaft that I
could raise stone quickly from could then fix a hopper that would hold
several tons of stone.  One man could then run more quartz to the battery
in a day then can be done now in days.

FRASERS G.M. COMPANY.

The following report has been received from Mr W. Oats, mining manager of
the above Company, under date August 26.  During the last fortnight our
Tangye pump has caused much delay in crushing, through breaking of parts;
consequently the battery has only worked about nine days in all, but by
pushing on when working with greater speed we have put through 112 tons of
stone, yielding 126 oz. smelted gold, being 1 oz. 2 dwts. 12 grs. per ton.
The battery started working for this fortnight at noon yesterday.  I am
hoping we shall have a fair run for the next cleaning up, as we have an
ample supply of water, and the machinery is working steadily.  The
underground development is satisfactory; quality about as usual.

be despatched.

THE NOR'-WEST GOLDFIELDS.

PROMISING REPORTS.

DISCOVERY OF A 39 OZ. NUGGET.

[BY TELEGRAPH.]

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

ROEBOURNE, Sept 9.
A man named Monson has arrived from Shaw Falls, where the big nugget was
found, bringing in a large nugget, weighing 39 oz. 8 dwts.  He was only
there a week.  He reports favourably on the field.

Diggers arriving from Ashburton give good reports.

Fourteen men camped at Nickol are doing well.

Mr Jacobsen, of the Mallina Gold Mining Company, is expected here in a few
days.  News of the company being floated in Sydney and of machinery coming
has been received here.

Between 180 and 200 ozs. of gold have been brought in from the different
fields within the last three days, to my own knowledge, but the names of
the persons owning the gold are held back.

Numbers are diggers are going to Shaw Falls daily.

The prospects of the Ashburton and Nullagine fields are looking up.

A discovery of gold at Flying Foam, about eighteen miles distant, is
reported, but nothing reliable has been heard yet.  Several men have gone
out to the place.

previous managers devoted their time in rooting out the best tin, we, the
undersigned, workmen (we are not miners) under the former manager, beg to
contradict that statement, if you will kindly allow us space in your
valuable paper.  Instead of rooting out the best tin, Mr Mulligan, for six
weeks after his arrival on the claim, was working in a far worse face than
that with which Mr Sheppard is so disgusted, and with better results,
though under greater difficulties, as at that time there was a scarcity of
water, which involved more labour and loss of time in cleaning out the
dam.  He then commenced washing at the lower end of the workings with
better results, which kept improving slowly until we stopped for want of
tools.  We were then getting more tin per day than had been got since the
claim started washing, so instead of rooting out the best tin, as Mr
Sheppard stated in his report, we left it behind; moreover this was
pointed out to him on arrival at the claim.

He then says it is a waste of public time and money to employ the men who
are here as miners.  Surely that is more applicable to himself then the
men working here.  The former manager could obtain good results and
reflect credit on his men under greater difficulties than those with which
Mr Sheppard has had to contend.  For those reasons, coupled with the
poverty of the claim, he is compelled to resign.  Had he said that he
could not obtain men he would have been near the mark, for he has been
shorthanded since he came, until within this last week very few caring to
work under him.  It speaks but little for a man's integrity when he seeks
to hide his own deficiencies by passing such unmerited reflections as Mr
Sheppard does on the former managers of Spring Gully and working men of
Greenbushes.

Thanking you for your valuable space, which enables us to do Mr Mulligan
justice,
We are, &c.,
William T. Selborne,
Edward A. Yates, Junr.,
John Rowland,
James Rowland,
Michael Smith,
Michael Shanahan.

Mr Greene, of the firm of Cooke, Greene & Co., has arrived from the
Ashburton.  He states that another patch of gold bearing country has been
discovered twenty miles north west of the "top find," by Wilson's party,
who worked for five weeks before they found it.  There is water six miles
away, but Mr Greene sunk a well, getting good water in four days.  Two
hundred men were there when he left and all were doing well.  There are
plenty of provisions at the find, which has been named the Soldier's
Secret.  Mr Greene says that four distinct patches have now been found,
and that the gold-bearing country extends from the original "Top Find" to
Mount Mortimer, twenty-one payable gullies having been opened at the "Top
Find."  His opinion is that the field will prove a big one.  He thinks
that lots of reefs exist, but no one is troubling about them.  There are
seven hundred men scattered over the different finds.  Another seventeen
ounce nugget was found on the "Top Find" just before his departure.  Mount
Mortimer is 150 miles from Onslow.

Another informant tells me that Wilson's party, consisting of five men,
obtained nearly 700 ozs. of gold in five weeks, at the new rush before
they were found on the east side of the creek.  Gold has been found on the
west side since.

The Bank is now giving the highest price for Ashburton gold.  A good
quantity of gold has been brought in from both the Ashburton and Nullagine
within the last three days.

cleaned up on Monday, and the result, I am told, is quite equal to the
last crushing.  The gold is coming down by the train to-morrow.

The Central was cleaning up when the mail left.

NEWS FROM THE NULLAGINE.

[BY BENGALEE.]

The population of this place is again steadily increasing, and as the time
draws nearer when there is a chance of getting rain, it will probably
increase to a greater extent.  Owing to a long stretch of dry weather the
waterholes are getting pretty low.  The claim on the hill to the right of
Grant's Gully, owned by McNamara & McKenzie, and also the claims owned by
the brothers M. & J. Marshall, are progressing, and both parties are said
to have a very good show of gold in a sort of cement lode, that runs
through their ground.  As for the rest of the field most of the men are
employed in getting wash-dirt and having it carted to the water.  But some
still stick to dry blowing.  Both at the clay pan and the forty mile, all
hands have had to come in for want of water.

The usual placidity of the mining community here, has been disturbed to a
very great extent by the action of two gentlemen taking out and applying
for a lease of eighteen acres on the hill near Grant's Gully.  At a public
meeting held here on the 22nd July, nearly all the mining population of
the Nullagine were present.  The feeling seems to be very strong in the
minds of the diggers against the system of gold mining leases.  This is
shown both at the meeting and the way the men rolled up to sign a petition
against this particular lease, and also against the system as a whole.  It
is not my intention to enter into a discussion on the merits or demerits
of the system, as in reality it is the abuse and not the use of leases on
goldfields that does harm, and it is to be devoutly hoped that the
practice of rushing about and pegging off leases for speculative purposes
will be nipped in the bud.

The late visit of the Warden has not been a very pleasant one to the
business people here, several having been fined various sums for slight
infringements of the Licensing Act, such as not having a lamp, no
signboard, etc. and in one case for selling without a licence or rather
neglecting to have had a licence transferred.  Now, how in the world is a
possible for anyone to comply with any regulation in the absence of any
one to apply to?  Even for mining purposes the regulations state that
notices of application for claims, dam sites, etc., have to be posted
seven clear days, before they can be granted.  The Warden stayed here six
days and a half, including Sunday, so how was it possible for anyone,
unless aware of his arrival, to do any business connected with mining
matters, except leases?

There is some talk of a party of men having made a valuable find of talc
or mica, somewhere on the Roebourne Road.  The Condon Road is beginning to
attract attention and without doubt, it is the way supplies will have to
be brought here, if ever the place is going to go ahead.  The distance
from here to Shellborough, a surveyed townsite at or near the mouth of the
DeGrey river, is stated to be a fully one hundred miles nearer than from
Roebourne, and the road from here to there is said to be a very fair one.
Several drays have come across lately and do not speak badly of the road.
The fact also of payable gold having been found at the Talga Talga Creek
and the Condon River is also an additional inducement for the opening up
of a road this way.  This road was spoken of some time ago, but probably
owing to interested motives was cried down, and it is within the bounds of
possibility that after trying to bring to life mummy townships like
Roebourne, it will be found advisable to start a fresh township in the
mining interest, either at Shellborough or Pt. Headland [sic], where there
is said to be a passable harbour.  A glance at the geographical position
of this place will illustrate the truth of my words, and according to the
report of men no way interested, who have come down hear from the DeGrey,
the road is not a bad one; but a well or two would have to be sunk between
here and Coppin's station to ensure a supply of water at all seasons.
The Nullagine, July 30.