GOLD-MINING INCIDENTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1669, 10 December 1873, Page 2

GOLD-MINING INCIDENTS.

REEFING IN OTAGO. . .„_._.,, The last crashing of the Cromwell Quartz-niining Company was 318ozfrora 110 tons of stone. The Argus says :— "Three shares in this company cannot? have paid their fortunate possessors much les3 than the handsome sum of L2oooa piece for the last twelve months ; and this, be it remembered, in the face of the stoppage which the company experienced last summer for- nearly^ six months, on account of the scarcity of water and the breakdown of the water-wheel." AN EXHrBITION OF GOLD. A "Waipara Miner" writes to : the - Tuapeka Times : — " Agricultural and pastoral districts have their periodical shows, which satisfy feelings higher and more profitable than those of mere curiosity,, aud their utility suggests, thie idea of ex-r tending the area of exhibits. For example, why should there not be an exhibition of gold ? Why should not the various gold;, fields of New Zealand compete iri brie ' grand annual exhibition of the precious metal ? In such a show we could have an exhibition of both golden. quantity and' golden quality; and, in view of the fact that our escorts, owing to obvious causes, ! are almost as fallacious a test of our mineral wealth as the census returns are I of our floating population, I consider th^; an- annual exhibition of the best sampleß of gold, silver, antimony, iron sandj and precious stones constitutes certainly a ; desideratum, and vrould probably, in England and Australia, be looked upon as a commercial necessity. As a stimulus to future effort— for comparison is the stimulus of genuine healthy rivalry— such a show as that here suggested would, I ; think, be productive- of consequences which would be literally incalculable. " THE LYELL REEFS. A correspondent of the Nelson Examiner writes :— " If gold is the root of all evil, then the Lyell must be everything but. a . desirable place of residence. Alt' present I there is more gold in the Lyell than there has . ever been known before at any one ■' L time. The Break o' Day obtained noless ,; than 3oz to the tori by sluicing roughly the broken stone before passirig it through the mill, and after 'the stonie 'had been operated upori a quanflty of about 100 \ tons has, as nearly as can be ascertained, ' given a further return of over spz per >r ton j making in all for the 100 tons an ' average of about Boz to the ton. The Maruia Company has put through about seventy or eighty tons of stone, with an average of over 4oz to the ton." Their return would have been much larger, but they?put through, to use a mining expression, 'everything before them.' Both companies are still hard at work. The Monte Ohristo will be: the next to orush, and the stone they have at present . stacked will give a return of soz or over that to the ton." • ■ ; H

i Holloway's Pills.'— Disorders of thekidheys : Z known by the deeply-seated pain in the back . and scanty secretion of water, can, be ari \ rested in their distressing and rapid coarse by these regulating Pilla. . Their highly tonic and strengthening properties prevent the impoverishment of the blood and the derangement of circulation, characteristic of kidney disease, and often ending in partial or general dropsy: ."Experiaum»-faay preved^the- almost- - unvaried success obtained when HoJOloway's " Pills are taken in the earlier^- stages, and the ease, they: afford when the disease is more „ advanced. They relax the hot and parghed I skin, overcome: the . attendant, costiveness, induce a copious secretion, by the kidneys, which are the harbingers of disease departing and health returning, . „,-, .;.;.-