LITE MINING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2103, 14 June 1894, Page 28

LITE MINING.

The secretary of the Sandhills Gold Mining Company (Limited) reports 240z 14dwt 20gr of gold for last week's dredging. A Lawrence correspondent telegraphs that tho North of Ireland Company's claim was sold by auction yesterday, and realised £1005. The purchaser is Mr Thomas Mark. A Tasmanian writing from Coolgardie states that the reefs are looking very well, and amongst many recent important discoveries made the "White Feather bids fair to eclipse Coolgardie. The gold in the vicinity of the Feather is fjqe and being well distributed in the stone, a fair average test can be made. Experts anticipate a good future in this locality. At Cue he says there is some " wonderfully rich stone heio in places which dollies from 5 z to 7oz, and if it only lives down to any depth must be big things very soon. I went out to the Four-mile yesterday, and had a look at the Day Dawn, which is the biggest mine about here, and has about the only decent machicery on the field. It belongs to the W. R. Wilson people, and they have a property" called the Trenton, for which machinery is coming up. It is very hard to get work, so many men are waiting for the rain to come to get out prospecting. There are a very decent lot of fellows here, but a beastly lot of typhoid. A man coming here now with j£looo i could buy up several real good things. There is no mistake about the stone ; you can see. good free gold in a lot of it. Out at the island, at Lake Austin, they are getting as much as 200oz a day at times, and it seems to be a regular Bayley's Reward. From what I can see and hear, it will be plenty of time six or nine months hence to come here, when they all think things will be proved better. I really would not advise anyone to come now, unless he has got some surplus capital to buy up interests and place machinery on the ground."

— Every spring the Emperor of China goes to " the emperor's field," ploughs a portion of it, sows it with several kinds of seeds, and superintends the ceremony, while the princes and nine courtiers perform the same act, in honour of the god of agriculture. Tbe empress tit the same time gives her ladies a lesson in •ilk culture.