GOLDSBOROUGH NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 April 1901, Page 2

GOLDSBOROUGH NOTES.

(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Stafford Town, This Day,

The contractor for Gillam's Gully drainage tunnel are now on the reef, but strange to say, havo lost what litilo gold they had, The Waimea Gold Dredging Company aro now sinking shafts on ihn Middle Branch Flat: The first shaft was sunk close to the hillside and false bottom was struck at a depth of 12ft, after sinking abouo 30 tect it had to be abandoned, not being able to cope with " the water. An attempt will be made to sink two moro shafts.

The prospecting shaft on Loch's Freehold had to be abandoned owing to the water coming in too freely. Ths Syndicate intend sinking no moro shafts, but shortly intend to drive a drainage tunnel from the Gillam's Gully tunnel. The first crushing on Lawyer's Paradise from claims sluicing into the Waimea channel took place last week and was highly satisfactory.

An old miner named Morazzi about 67 years of age, was killed in his claim by a fall of earth on Saturday last, at Duffer's Creek. An inquest was held on Sunday at 11 a.m., before Coroner Maefarlane and a jury of six, when a verdict of accidental death was returned.

A wedding ceremony, at St. John's Church, Stafford, had to be unexpectedly adjourned for a few hours in order to enable the bridegroom to go to Hokitika and obtain the marriago license. It appears he bad forgotten all about the license until asked by the clergyman just as ho was about to splice them. The journey was made in record time, and the license being obtained, the ceremony was then gone on with.