THE OTAGO CENTRAL MINE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1805, 25 June 1886, Page 15

THE OTAGO CENTRAL MINE.

Quite a flutter of excitement was caused in Naseby last week (writes the Daily Times correspondent) when the news was promulgated that the recent crushing by the Otago Central Company, Rough Ridge, had slightly exceeded the anticipations of those connected with it. From information supplied me from an authoritative source, I glean that about 65 tons of quarts tras crushed, with a total gross return of 740z lOdwt from 2150z amalgam, or with some 30 or 40oz of amalgam in the battery, between 2G and 27dwt per ton. On making comparisons I find the present crushing is about 140 per cent, better than the first one, from which about 138oz retorted gold was obtained, or about lldwt per ton. I learn the battery will continue crushing for several weeks longer, so that when the final clean-up ensues the company should obtain a large cake from their operations of the past two or three months. The stone in the mine is improving, and the adit level has just about reached one or two of the rich shoots of gold worked several years since ; and there is the satisfaction of knowing that the further the level goes to the rise the better will the stone become. From this reef some 2, 1\, 3, and 3£oz stone has been taken, so it appears that there are some good things in store for the company. The reef in the drive is now 18in in width and is | becoming wider, so that without the slightest exaggeration I can assert that the prospects of the company never looked brighter or more promising than at the present moment. Better times are apparently in store for Rough Ridge, and there are signs that the industry of quartz-reefing is now to bo revived in that rugged region. Nasbby, Jnne 18. Th« actual yield from the Otago Central cjrushinjj was 750z lOdwt. It is estimated tfofcr©" \* about X2ob on the babtery-

plates. In consequence of the improved look of affairs there has been some trallicking in scrip here to-day.

Operations in alluvial mining arc almost entirely suspended in the district on account of tliu recent fall of snow.

The legal manager has received a telegram stating that the United Alpine's return is 66'Jtoz amalgam from 837 tons stone, plates only.

Ixveucaugill, June 2;5. The two years and ten months old daughter of Mr W. G. M'Kay rliod through eatingmatches.

Our Wakatipu correspondent writes : — The whether of late has been much against all outdoor work, oscillating between wet and frost, and rabbit-poisoning' under t>\ieh circumstances is an unsatisfactory occupation. Natural feed is abundant upon the hills, much moro so than has been the case for many years past at thi.-> time oFve.tr. The indications of a lise in the prieo of whcit should bti rather goon news for this district, as there is still a goodly quantity held by local growers.

An Amuiican correspondent writes — "A fow days ago I hcj:u\l from George, who is training at Ford hum Heights, New York. Hi; haid, in answer to my question as to how he felt, ' I am glad to say at tho present t.ime I am well, and I full}'- believe if 1 keep as I atn now until after my races with Mr Myers, that in Iho.so races I shall run faster than I have evur done before.'"

How TO E.VJOT Cui,i> WbatiiiiH.— Take something to warm you. and which will at the s.ime 1 ! me give you strength and vigour. Nothing will d i this and keep out the cold butter, and be nioieeonUortiny. t; lull i a hot, tiagianfc cup of " Oadhury's &«;o<i Essence."

Two earthquake shocks were i'eit throughout Otago about G. 17 a.m. on Wednesday.

All the compensation claims in connection with the Dowlincr street blasting accident, with the exception of two — those of Mr lrwin nnd Miss Vivian — havo been settled. Mr Irwin's claim is £2000 and Miss Vivian's £500, and it is most probable that an amii-nhlc ariMugcniunt wiil be come to betwocn these parties and the I'ity Council.

Advick to Mothehsl— Are you broken in your rest by a sick child&nlferinjr wifchi iienani of cutting teahh ? Go afc ouee to it chemist and }>i-(, a iiottk' of r.liiS Willow's Soonii.Th rtruup. It will roi»e\«s the poor suit'erer inun diately. It is perfect ly harmless ami pleasant to the taste; it produces "natural ijuiet sleep, by relieving the child trom pain; iind the little uherab awakes "as bright as ;i button." H cootheo the child, it softens the giims, allays all pain, relieves win-l regulates the bowels, uirl is finbest known remedy tor dysentery am! diarrh.ea fthether arising from teething or other causes. 3ii« WiN'SLOw'sdooriiisw Svuire is sold by nicdl-ciue-denler3 everywhere at la lid pei bottle. — Aovi I .]

A sad accident occurred onboard the Japanese warship Tsukuba on the 7th of June at Lcvuk«. The men were housing topgallant masts, ami one of the fi<!s full, striiring Mr MMshipniau Shirafuji on th« head. Tuo Wow fmcfcnrcd his skull, and he lived :nit a short time after the no'i'luut. Application was subsequently ma^c to cremate the body, so that the ashes of tho deceased officer might be taken to Japan, but difficulties were raised by the curator of the cemetery, and eventually the body was cremated at Y-innea Island, in the presence of a largo number of the suttlers.

The demand for the greafc American remedy. Hop Hitters, in tin's part o/ htie world lias bouome so great that the Hop Bitters Co., whose hcidquaitcis .lie at Hoohester, New York. U.S. A., have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr M. H. Van liei-gli, a gentleman of scvcutl years experience with this Company, and the trade m.iy I>a assui-cd of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and the most courteous treatment. The 11. 13 (Jo. have establishments at London, Paiis, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland, and Toronto, and their American Bitters aie piobably the beat known medicine in the world.