MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 32, 10 September 1869, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Streets op Gold ! —The Arabian Nights Entertainment would seem to be transferred from Bagdad to the Thames, were the following discovery anything but accidental and transitory. It is . related that considerable excitement prevailed on Friday morning last, in Shortland, from the fact that gold was discovered in the sand which forms the pathway in front of Messrs. Harrison and Co.'s establishment in Pollen street. A crowd soon collected, and dishes were brought into requisition. Several .fine prospects were washed, the gold being of a fine flaky character. It appears the stuff that forms the pathway was bronght from the Karaka Creek. The Town Board must have viewed with consternation their footpaths being pegged off and the traffic impeded by goldwashing. — 4 Wanganui Chronicle.' The ' Northern Argus' (<Rockhampton) contains the following:—On Wednesday a monster nugget, weighing2sß ozs. 8 dwts., was brought into Eockhampton. It was found by a little boy of nine years of age, the son of Mr. Cadden on Mount Wheeler, Cowarral. It is a beautiful specimen of pure gold, slighily waterworn in parts, and is valued at £4 per ounce. It was discovered a few inches below the surface, on the top of a slight ridge, near to a place where many small nuggets have 1 been lately picked up. Scarcely had the news of this rich find spread over the town, when another nugget was

brought in which weighed 179 ozs. 14 dwts., the property of Mr. Luckman, and found within a few inclies of the one |first unearthed, also by a boy. . The Thames G oldpieliß.—An Auckland contemporary thus epitomises tlie mass of intelligence that inundates the papers on this all-engrossing theme : The Thames still continues to give evidence of its richness in the regular discovery, day by day, of new claims of extraordinary richness. Scrip, however, is generally unsaleable, even in good claims—not for want of money. Everybody has bought into everything, and very many are short dated acceptances, and the consequence is that very many are anxious to realise, and must indeed realise on any terms. Thosewho can hold for another month or six weeks will reap a harvest, and some wise ones are piling up good interests now, buying in a fall for the expected rise which must come with the fine weather, and the influx of capital from without. There is considerable talk of Ohinemuri being opened shortly. This would attract thousands of working men to the Thames, who, if unsuccessful at the-alluvial diggings supposed to exist there, could fall back in the position of wages men in the Thames quartz claim's: Coromandel, too, presents great attractions, and the long-spoken Waitakerei is likely to turn out a goldfield.

Improvements in Mining Machinery.—A great want in hydraulic mining has been supplied in a new invention by Joseph Jacobs, called the monitor. It con sists of a pipe supplied with an oscillating joint, which can be easily adjusted at any angle, and which has many advantages over any pipe heretofore in use. It does entirely away with hosej and all its appurtenances, and has a greater range than any similar contrivance, in use. The pipe may be easily shifted by one man, when it has a pressure of 180 feet. In the claims of Jacobs and Sargent at Quaker Hill, where they use 700 inches of water, they have two of those monitors at wort, and they have proved more economical, and much more effective, than any pipe ever before used. Those who are interested in hydraulic mining would do well to visit these claims, and see the monitors at work. The pipe and machinery complete costs about BuO dollars.—' Daily Transcript.'