Tuesday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 30, 23 November 1883, Page 13

Tuesday.

The Champion Copper Company, who recently sent 20 tons to Newcastle, have received the following cablegram :--" Out-turn 38£ per cent., and sold at 12s per unit." It is calculated that the shipment has thus realised £23 per ton, which is considered very satisfactory. The cross-cut is now through the Doctor's lode, about 2ft. wide. The manager estimates that the Dector's lode is worth. £150 per fathom. Samples of the drilling, which appear to be half native copper, are to be sent to the analyst. The highly encouraging reports from the mine are causing excitement. Miss Chrisp, head nurse of the Auckland Hospital, has had conferred on her by the Queen the decoration of the Order of the Red Cross. Miss Chrisp has already two medals for service in the field. The Governor will be asked to present the insignia to Miss Chrisp. News has been received that a Volunteer force of 220,000 men is being raised in China in view of the prospect of war. Much uneasiness is felt in consequence by foreigners resident in Chinese territory. In the course of an interview which was granted by the Marquis Tseng to a newspaper correspondent, the latter elicited from the Chinese Ambassador a statement to the effect that an attack upon TJactninh by the French troops in Tonquin would be considered by the Chinese Government as a oasus belli. Remarkable disturbances in the two largest lakes in the Colony have been reported to Dr Hector. A letter from the officer in cha'ge at Camp Taupo states that last month a schooner was moored partly out of the water at the jetty near the outflow of the lake, and shortly after noon the water was seen to retire and leave the vessel high and dry. The water returned to its normal level in ten or fifteen minutes. At another place, where the outflow approaches the rapids, two men of the Armed Constabulary Force were bathing in a •warm pool near the river bank at a higher level than the water flowing from the lake. They noticed the cold river water suddenly flowing into the warm pool, and the river sinking to its usual level in a few minutes. The water of the lake must have been affected for about a depth of 20in. It is thought that this was due to volcanic action. Mr. Foster, the owner of the buggy overturned in Pleasant Creek while conveying passengers from Palmerston to Dtmedin on Saturday, has died of the effects of the immersion.