MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10179, 13 October 1894, Page 7

MINING.

A Lyell correspondent telegraphs :—" Lyell Creek Company.-Owing to further slight delays in the delivery of the timber for the Water race, this contract is not' quite completed, but should be out of hand early next week, when work in the mine will be again immediately commenced. The Cocksparrow dredge returns for the week are 46,V0z amalgam for 136 beiprs'. dredging, lhe dredge has been stopped for rejrairs, which should be completed by Monday next."

NOTES FROM WAKATIPU. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Arrowtown, October 6.—No later'news is to hand from the Premier mine beyond the fact that exploitations are going on apaco. . For some time p<*Jt very encouraging reports have been in circulation about good stone being struck in the Achilles Companys mine at Skippers. These reports are now confirmed—Ao. 3 and No. 4 levels yielding quartz of a highly payable nature. Unfortunately one of the dynamos generating • electricity came to grief last weeK, and all work had to bo suspended until tlio damage has been repaired, which will take several days. .

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HE MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED ANY DAY. Thero was once a man who, on account of j his religious convictions, was arrested by a despotic Government and thrown into prison. Looking at the strong stone walls that shut him in, he naturally concluded that he inns'; spend thii rest ol his day* in this lonely and dismal place. Yet' wrufched as the prospect was, there was some comfort in the thought that be was a victim of oppression, and not undergoing punishment as a violater of auy good and righteous law. All the same he would have beon glad to get out, as ho had a right,to do if he could. • * Nevertheless there ho (.fayed and languished, for 16 years. At nearly the end of that period io occurred to him one day to climb up on a projecting stone in - tho wall »nd take a j,eep through the window above his head. He did so, and found the iron bars removable and tbn sash not fastened.. An idea struck him of coarse. Why not escape ? He opened the window, jumped six feet to-the ground, and left that district immediately. He mi-jht have done so at anytime during his protracted occupancy of the place if he had only been blest with a more inquiring mind and not taken so much for granted. . . Now here comes an incident both like and unlike that of tho martyr; like it because there was loss of free action ; -unlike it .because the sufferer was not imprisoned as he vros.. ' The story is in tbe l orm of-alerter, one ot tho-e letters" we all prefer io get^-short, and -made up of sbmt words., Th** writer, a lady, sa?s —'* For tha last 16. yeara I have been greatly afflicted with bilious complaints and weakness. V was always tired, weak, and lowspirited.' I bid.no- appetite, and when food was placed before me I could uot touch it. For days I could k carcoly ; e**.t anything. At t mes 1 was troubled wj'h sickness aud hewing at the stomach, spitting 'lip a- thick/phlegm. I had a troublesome cough, with pain at my chest ahd difficulty of breathin'it.; ' I got, very, weak aud could scarcely dr ? g myself in .and _out of the shop. In December 1891 il began to take; a medicine I had heard well spok«n of by many of my customers, called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. After I hadtaken only a few dose**, 1 felt relief, and I bad rot used" the medimoe for a fortnight when I felt better than 1 had done for years. Thus encouraged, I kept mi with it until" Twb's restored to go.-d liealto. My* son .Arthur.had suffered off and on for a year from pain and heaviness; after nit-als; 'with a sinkingfeelingat the piti of the stomach ' He'was induced/to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and the result was tbe same as m my own case. I know several persons in this district who have been cured by the Syrup after allother means had failed. You;atee.t liberty, to publish my, letter if you thiiik.it.m-.ght he ot benefit to others afflicted as X wss.-Yours truly (signed) (Mrs)- M.'Ward,;W Ilkeston road, Radford, Nottingham, April 1. 189-. We congratulate Mrs W«rd upon her deliverance from a distre-sing'and dangerous duease. What Vpity, she'did not sooner le-.ru how easily and r certainly she could,"*-, cured ..-Sixteen yeara is too large a -slice" Qut'.of one, s Ufe^to b*> ■' spentiu bodily and mental misery„; < Te.ry few ot us can have wealth in any ca* c, -but health should 'beTcblessingi common:find,universal as sunshine! '. • And it might be if everybody-knew how ■ to preserve it when they pbsHesi >t, or to regaiu it when lost! This Udy's disease was of the digestive organs—indigestion -and- dysofipsia— the most afflictive and perilous of. all, because it involves every function of the body, scattering its poison at' every point; through the mediumof the blood. Nearly all silments are but -the ' differeutlymamed' results and'.symptoins of this prolific parent of evil. -That the.remedy she mentions t-hould have cured her-will not surprise those who know its well-founded reputation. Many worse cases constantly' yield to

ifc. ■ .■■•■-,...■ Our friend tho martyr abode in his cell a weary time because he wa3 igoorant of the simple way out. If the reader of these lines is a captive to disease he h»s no excuse for remaining so.', In her short and honest letter our correspondent points tb the open door.