THE GOLDEN BAY ARGUS. (UPHOLD THE RIGHT.) FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER 1885.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume I, Issue 120, 9 October 1885, Page 2

THE GOLDEN BAY ARGUS. (UPHOLD THE RIGHT.) FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER 1885.

We have been shown some stone taken from a leader in the drive now being put in the Great Northern lease at West .Wanganui which confirms our already expres- ' sed opinion that this claim will ultimately be the means of resuscitating the mining industry in that locality. Quartz-reefing is proverbially uncertain, but in this particular instance the present indications of future prosperity are most encouraging. In years gone by, very good payable gold was obtained in all the creeks in the vicinity of this Company’s lease, and especially rich quartz specimens were found in the two gullies on either side of the ridge now being prospected, and as the tunnel has already been driven a distance of 25 feet along one of the leaders which carries goldall the way, there is a great livelihood of it continuing and mak.ng into a well-de-fined permanent lode. The Company has been gazetted and an extraordinarv meeting of shareholders will take place early next month, when the Directors will be elected and steps taken to determine the value of the reef. In the meantime Mr Wilkie will continue driving on the leader and will furnish a full report to be laid before the meeting.

The Golden Ridge company have not yet recommenced work at their mine no manager having been appointed, but wo hear that Mr Giles will be again sent, out to-take charge.

A Special meeting of the County Council will be held in Collingwood on Thursday evening at 8 p.m, to elect a member for the Hospital and Charitable Aid Hoard.

The meeting of Directors in the Pub

lie Hall company, has been unavoidablv po.-tponed until Wednesday evening at 8 pirn.

A medical man has called the attention of the Dunedin Herald to the danger

of allowing empty jam or fruit tins to bo played with by children. He lias had several cases of blood poisoning, the result of scratches from these vessels. Only the other day a little child scratched his-finger with the nsgged rim of an empty jam tin. Within a few hours blood poisoning set in, and-in about- three days the child’s arm was swollen about five times its ordinary size, and the swelling quickly spread to the body. Since then the child has died with the most virulent symptoms of blood poisoning.

The “National [Gazette” of August 2‘2nd says that China has contracted with a Manchester firm to furnish material for construction of a railway from Takon, at the mouth of the Hoen Ho, on the Tellow Sea to Fong Chow, on the Peiho, an affluent of the Hoen Ho, twenty-five miles east of Pekin. The railroad will be a

most important work, 100 miles long, Tt will give Pekin direcLaiuL-easy com-

munication with the Yellow Sea. The

road is to be built- and' operated by a Manchester firm, with Chinese labor and

capital. China is now engaged in rtti.-ing iu Europe a loan of one hundred million florins, to be expended in internal im-

provements

The report that Oliver Paine was executed by order of the Briti-h military authorities in' the Soudan, has led to some trouble in Paris. The Anarchists made threats against the British Embassy and on the 18th the building was surrounded by a body of police for protection and the doors kept closed all day. Roclifort’s paper continues to demand vengeance. on England for the alleged murder of Paine, and the friend; of that adventurer are advised to publicly insult Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador. So far as the British Government is concerned, Roclifort’s desire to get up a l erious agitation will not be gratified. The affair is at an end, in fact, for Lord Salisbury, acting on the advice of Lord Lyons, has finally decided not to ask M. de Freycinet to prosecute the agitators. Itochfort, however, has also vilified Major Kitchener in this connection. A personal row may result, as the Major’s friends think he will cowhide the editor in the streets of Paris.

South America has for a long time threatened to be a formidable opponent of Australia in the production of line wool, and now threatens to run us close in the matter of beef production. For years past selections from some of the finest purebreeds in the United Kingdom have been shipped to Buenos Ayres. On the 9tb May last a magnificent collection ol Clydesdale horses, shorthorn cattle and Oxford Downs and Lincoln sheep were shipped by the It.M.S. Tagus. On the 9th Juno another collection of shorthorns and Lincoln and Oxford Downs sheep, and on the 24th of June six yeaning colts and fillies (thoroughbred) were exported, all for Buenos Ayres. It is noteworthy that nearly the whole of

the shorthorns sent were either Booths or Scotch, the River Plato breeders evidently favoring robustness.—Queenslander.