INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1465, 13 December 1879, Page 19

INTERCOLONIAL.

i . (lfVem our, Melbourne contempowriu.) -, „ . 'f - ' : -,' VICTORIA. V. ;> - „ 'j..\-jil The Stowell correspondent of the -Age, writ.. ' 'v. ing on the 25th ulfci sayg :— The official report* a ". received- from the. Pleasant Greek- Gross Js«efb : Company continue to be of a moat cheering nature, and indicating that in the reef now bW - . ;ng opened up in No. 1 shaft a highly import tant discovery has been made. The mining; ' manager intimated last week that "at the 112 ft feet level, No. 1 shaft, a shot was put into the xeef . The stone broken' oufcjearried splendidgold, but width of lode not yet known." Moihi ? day's official report stated :— " At the 1120 fee*-' *' level, No. 1 shaft, the men are engaged rising* i up on the reef receutly struck ; the atone eon*- ' tinues to show good gold, but there is a consider* .. ,' able quantity of mullock with it. There is riot* ■•' sign as yet of being through the reef." Since, then no official information has been receivedfrom the mine. ... Of, the other portions -of the -mine, it may be stated that in ' Nor 2 ahaft the the flat reef Na ;3eaat looks-well, igood gold being seen throughout the -stone. ; The vertual' '; atopes No. 3 north' are without change ; average | thickness of reef three feet,, the Btone being of- , * | fair quality. Several quantities of atone hare? ■- : , been carted to the mills, the results from which: *" : will be obtainable next week. 7 A. report .has been received by the Miniog, ' •'■ department from Mr H. B. Nicholas, inspector of mines at Sandhurst, which states that a. practical test was made at the Unity Company's* mine of Mr Matthew Barker's invention for signaling in mines by-means of 'the telephone The trial is said to have • been a successful one, and Mr Nicholas thinks that Mr Barker's invention would bean economic and valuable contrivance to adopt for underground, signalling paE- ' poses in connection ' with, mining claims. -, Messrs Lumbert and O'Brien, of the Go-Idea Bar, Ghiltern, report a crushing of 13 ton* efe quartz, yielding 3oa. sdwt. per t0n. ,. „ r _ . ' The Ohiltern\Valley mines,- yield of gold foe the past four,, weeks. .is 8740z. 12Jwt, M and thft mine still improving. The claim employs about , 140 -men. >■:; The ' second dividend/ only ' xjna- - '' > month apart, has been declared! 1 The Gariualdi claim, a large number of shares in various. New Ghum companies and two 4At> ' tagea, all In the estate of the late Clark Mage*, ! of New Cham, were submitted to auction at Sandhurst on Friday, the 14th November, it is thought at the instance of the .Bank of Victoria^. 'The bids (reached £15,000,; and. then stopped. This being under the reserve price, the whole was bought in. For tha Garibaldi claim itself £6600 was bid,. but it is reported that Mr Lao- « - • ■ mil is ready at any time to give £10,000 lor tk% mine. '. ' ,' . f" '-MKW SOOTH WALIS.", ,' • No. 6' South Lady Mary, at Gympie, have . cleaned Jip 108 ton* of stone for the extraordinary yMd of :£3170z. of »etorted gold. ... V i SpeOdngrf the Charters Towers reefs,- th» Northern^ner says :—" The. Brian O'Lyunl cleaaed up fforr r the last fortnight's crushing ;,«» 12|30z r .7dw^ being sor. 3d wt. l4grs to the tpn. j the preceding crushing, 10940z~ being 4ioz .to.' - ihd ton j ! , tiR; yield for the J month was ,2»7ba2F 7dwte',t>r abtwt £B\>oo a month gross yieia^. After deducting for working "expenses,': 'Mir- "Si StubJej, the principal shareholder, draws about dglOOo.;.»jiweek. This is «t princely iaconie^ and it ia likely to increase. Mr Stubley ha& ■ ' been singularly fortunate ia his mining ventures-, here."* 1