THE SKIPPERS REEFS.

Evening Star, Issue 3966, 10 November 1875, Page 3

THE SKIPPERS REEFS.

Southberg and party have just finished crashing two tons of from Cornish's reef (Crown Terrace), which •yielded loz 3dwts of gold per ton, and they will crush the stone from Wacetown shortly. But Skippers Cre>k st-11 carries the palm amongst reefs, and the old Scandinavian will take a lot of beating. The tributors, through the rotten Btate of the flundng, were only enabled to crush by fits aud •starts ; in faot, they only had forty tons put through when they had to clean up and ere.t a new fluming. The yield was most satisfactory. A cake of 2300z was the result, being at the rate of nearly 6oz-i to the ton. I'hey have still about 300 tons of the same sort of .stone in their paddock to put through, which cannot f-.il to shape as well, as the trucks are filled from a trap in the bottom of the paddock, and thus the stone, rich and poor, is thoroughly mixed when tipped into the battery. The total crushing will yield from 1500 to l.TOOozs. i he other iUy one of the Phoenix Company's tn'butors offered to sell bis eighth share in the claim for LBOO cash down. As the present stone to grass will probably produce this amount for each man's shaie, the tffer was ''dirt cheap," but the conditions—ready money —was r,n insuporablb obstacle. The tributors are busy crushiug, aud it is said they will send down during the week a cuke of some fJOOozs of gold from about 100 tons of stone.—' VVakatip Mail.'

A Satisfactory Reply.- -They do some things much better in France (says the ' Hornet.') A male convict at Cayenne, not long ago, obtained permission to marry a female convict, but, as the man wa3 a widower, the governor declared it was necessary first to obtain the ceitificate of the death of his first wife. A communication was addressed to the authorities at Home, but the mail returned without a reply. The couvbt insisting that the ceremony should be no longer delayed, the Governor said, " But what is th re to prove that your first wife is dead ?" The reply of the convict was tolerably satisfac'ory on this point: " Why," he said, " I'm here for having murdered her !"