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Evening Star, Issue 3853, 30 June 1875, Page 2

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Abbow, Jane 28. Accounts from the Phoenix claim, Skippers, continue most favorable, and some very lick samples of stone have been shown here. The reef from which they have .been obtained is tien feet thick, two.feet of which shows exceedingly rich, the remaining eight feet being company tively poor. The tnbuters are, however*tiudDg out the whole for convenience of stacking it for the spring- crushing, which is expected to turn out a large cake of gold. The discovery of this % valuable lode. q£ quart* Is causing some excitement; claims have been taken up_ over an extensive area, and next season will _ witness a great revival of mining enterprise in; the locality. Southbcrg .and party, whose workings adjoin the tributeis; have had a good crushing, and have taken up additional ground. The abundance of tilpher in the neighborhood is of immefase advantage*tp the reefers, and will greatly help in bringing this favored locality into notice. . At the Sandhills, Shotover, a miner huned James Carolan has lost .his earth while sinking a prospecting "hole. His mate, in trying to assist him, was caught by* second fall, and got out with difficulty,j .ne rfubd an alarm, and on returning with found Carolan buried under six feet of Wron* and dead when recovered. , r In the Arrow district a claim known as.the Rule Brittannia has struck rich wash diA 4ft thick. This claim has' been for years Unite- , munerative, having , had to be opened by & drainage tunnel under the bed of the Attpw River and through worked ground—a taskiOf much difficulty and expense. i Now that iolid ground is reached the claim is likply to repay the* shareholders handsomely for thw-tteevroSl outlay. Mr John A. Miller (wbrkihgntiuSgte of the Sons of ForttmejCompany) is one cftne oldest shareholders, and to his pterafeveranne jfa ■ ultimate successls greatly due. : . Tm newMfcrbinC 'Of the Arrow'iObited Company it wish* ihgnp to twenty-two strokes per xninutt* only eleven ibe obtomedwith former one. Should no accident occur,' tM unking of the shaft will be effected by

its aid, andlunuoh confidence is felt as to the success of the company. The manager of the Lucknow Company, Bendigo, has expressed his intention of procuring one of thesejtnrbines, which are supplied by Mr Manning, of Dunedin. Mr Evans, agent for the proprietor of the Phoenix claim, Skippers, and Mr Roskruge, of the Nugget Reef, are likely to do the same. Mr Maiming deserves credit for his liberality in macing this turbine at the disposal of the United Company for triad; his action has been the means of saving the company from collapse and placing it in view of favorable and successful results. Henry Eager, formerly of the Shotover, writes from the Palmer, May 16, as follows; As for the Palmer goldfield it is the meanest I ever was on; if a bit of a gully is found it is all taken up in twenty-four hours, and worked out in a fortnight. Some of the reels ■» Rood, but no machinery is yet available, and food is so dear that ft poor man is unable to hold eut,” He further states that he has been ill for months with the fever, and is anxious to return to New Zealand.