MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4161, 28 June 1876, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From our Exchanges.)

Work will soon be almost entirely suspended at the Arrow if the hard frosts continue much longer. The sluicing claims are a’l washing up for the winter, as they soon will ,be frozen up. There are very .few people paying any attention to alluvial mining at present, as quartz reefs are en grossing the time and attention of everyone. The shares in the All Nations wont up to L7OO last week. L 1,500 is now asked for a one-seventh in the above claim, and considered cheap by the shareholders. A gentleman residing in the Riverton dis trict was recently shown a parcel of rough gold, weighing about sozs., which bad been obtained at the Longwood Ranges. Various rumors are afloat as to the success which a prospecting party who recently went to try theix* fortune in that direction have met with, but as yet there is no definite information regarding the result of their enterprise.

■ L The first .person who ever went round the world was th« man in th« mpon.

A SURGEON AND HIS HORSE KILLED BY LIGHTNING. One Friday afternoon, not long since, as Mr Rust, surgeon, of Wethersfield, Essex, was riding on horseback to visit a patient, the Rev. J. C. Gooch, of Toppesfield Rectory, a thunderstorm came on, and being on an elevated spot the lightning struck the unfortunate gentleman, and killed him on the spot, and also the horse he was riding. Mr James Bell, of the Stour Inn, Sudbury, was driving near by, and immediately went to see whether he could render any assistance, but found that both the horse and his rider were dead. On examination it appeared that the electric fluid had struck the felt hat worn by the deceased, tearing out a portion of the back part, had then passed down one arm and hand, rending off the back of his glove, had scorched and blackened the saddle, and had singed the back and flanks of the horse. A laborer, who was working in a field close by, observed the flash and also saw the doctor fall. Mr Bell sent for assistance, and the police officer stationed at Toppesfield came and took charge of the body. The deceased gentleman was much respected, and leaves a wife and family to lament his loss. The animal he rode is said to have been a valuable one. —* Bury Post.’