MINING NOTES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1869, 6 February 1892, Page 3

MINING NOTES.

The mine manager of the Amalgamated Waipori Deep Lead Gold Mining Company (Limited) reports for the week ending January 30 as follows : — " I intended washing up on Saturday, but coming across an extensive pothole on Wednesday night I have determined to bottom this -before washing up. The elevator is bow lifting the stuff to a perpendicular height of 81ft, and is still working satisfactorily. The stuff in this pothole consists of good payable wash, as usual intermixed with large boulders of hard schist rock, which take a considerable amount of time and hard work to get rid of. " On Tuesday morning he wrote : — •♦ I expect to bottom pothole during the day, and shall wash up to-morrow." The quantity of gold obtained by the Roxburgh Amalgamated Mining and Sluicing Co. since Ist May last is 16020z 16dwt, of the value of £6172 11s lOd. The Ettrick Dredging Co. washed up on Saturday last, the gold return being lOoz for four days' work. A CONTEMPORARY says : — I once heard of a most respectable man who suddenly broke into a howling rage and declared that this world was as chockf ul of deceit and devilry as an egg was full of meat, and he cared not how soon he left the illusive show for ever. When he had cooled down he explained that he had been a constant borrower of the local paper for over seven years, and had just discovered that the man (if it were just to call him a man) from whom be borrowed it, had not paid a single subscription during tbe whole of that time. He was pained, shocked, disgusted, to think that such a wretch could walk the earth and look into the face of an honest man. He did not see that he was meaner himself. The man who got the paper probably intended to pay, but could not ; the man who borrowed it never intended to pay. The borrower is tbe meanest man.