Mining in Australia.

Manawatu Herald, 23 December 1893, Page 3

Mining in Australia.

In every way Australian minibg promises a big revival. The refractory and the poor reefs even, which once baffled the intrepid prospector, have been robbed of almost all tbiir > difficultjes by the achievements of tnephknioal Boience, and the ever-inoreasing improvements in ore-breaking machinery. 1h& revival of trade in the manufacture of mining .machinery shows clearly that the general reflex of investment is toward the mining industry. The old fields, Orympie, Bendigo, Charters Towers, and Ballarat, are better than they have been for years — the deserted alluvials of Victoria are being rushed again N.S.W. mining is coming on vigorously and the Eldorado of Bailey's Reward points to the rapid exploitation and settlement, of Western Australia. It is to be regretted that in the case of mining at least, no movement has been made to admit the working miner to a share of his findings as well as his ordinary wage. The investor may risk his capital, but the miner risks his life a dozen times a day ; for if he escape a violent death by the breaking of a cage chain— the falling in of a drive— or the flooding of a shaft — he dares the terrible kidney disease or the agonies of pleurisy. That is, mind you, after -he! has got on to gold— as a prospector he dares all these things without any show of reward and merely on bare ohance. Mr B. J. Coffry, a miner and proapeotor of Mt. Morgan (Qld.), writes on Nov. 22, 1892, recounting his recovery, by the use of Warner's Safe Cure, from a dangerous attack of bush fever and ague, fcbhtrabted whilst prospecting. And the experience of Mr J. R. Ware', miner, of Long .Gaily, Bendigo (Vie), is an ordinary description of the discomforts and diseases to which the poorly paid miner is subject. Says Mr Ware:— * ftLoNO Golly, Bendigo, Victoria, Oct. 2, 1891— Working for many years in the deep of Ballarat and Bendigo,. I contracted a disease known as, the miner's disease, or lung complaint. I also suffered from rheumatic pains in the, baok and legs, oaused by the dampness and foul air in the mines. I worked on as long as it was possible, and was then compelled to lay up, , . I used many remedies, and consulted dootors, but could get no relief, and began to despair of being able to help my wife and. family. I had saved up a few pounds, but with doctors' bills and medicine ft soon went, and I could see nothing before me but bad times, and no prospect ot regaining my lost health. One day an old miner friend called to see me, and was surprised to find me in such a low state. On leaving he said he would call again the next day and bring something to .cure me. I had lost all hope, and only shook ray ; heftd. On the morrow he called, bringing trith' him a bottle of Warner's Safe Cure, and said if any medicine would cure me, this would ; and that he had kuown a Boore of.minei'3/who had- been oui&d; by its use, and insisted on my faking some at once, Hia words cheered me. I took the medicine, felt better, kept on with it until Xha.d consumed seven bqttles, and in three months I wag at work again, and am thankful to say have not had a day's sjokness since, . r