ENERGETIC.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 81, 23 February 1877, Page 2

ENERGETIC.

This company bad a general clearing up at the close of last week, and the amount of gold obtaiued, added to other sums taken from (he plates previously, gives a return of 661 ounces retoned gold for fire weeks crushing. The result is so far satisfactory that a dividend of fonr shil insjs hns been declared. In the interior of the mine a shaft has been commenced on the main level with the object of further testing the reef. A steady course of prospecting is still carried on by eross-cnlting from main level, and also ii the upper tunnel. Ouiy 20 stampers liare been 'employed this week, new cams andolheralte alions having been made to the remaining tai* Tliis afternoon the whole number will be put in ection. An accident occurred on Tuesday last foone of tbe cont "actors engaved on the Macedonian tramway, named Buchanan. The man was in the act of walking on a stringer wbich was fixfd across the creek for the construction of one of the bridges, and missed his footing, and fell a distance of 30 feet, causing serious injury to one of his shoulders and ribs, He was immediately conveyed, at his request, to his own dwelling oa the Buller Road, and attended by Pr Martin.