LATEST MINING NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 168, 24 May 1872, Page 5

LATEST MINING NEWS.

The Paxtou Company, Tain '< >aroora, has been floated with a capital of £160,000. Poster, the bushranger, who was shot while engaged in a burglary, has died of his wounds. .

The ' Mount Alexander Mail' says: —" A curious coincidence in names and ages is to be found at Guilford. Three men are working in a tunnel,, each of whom bears the christian name of Adam. They were born the same 7 year, and in the same town in Scotland. They came to the colony at different periods, fell in with each other, and eventually became mates."" It has been long thought that nuggets of gold increase in size while lying in the drift in which they are found. Mr. Wilkiuson has lately announced to the .Royal Society of Victoria that gold, when placed in. a solution of chloride of gold, in contact with organic matter determines the deposit of liberal gold upon itself. Mr Skey, of the New Zealand Geological Survey, has lately communicated a series of experiments, giving similar results to the Wellington Philosophical Society. By a telegram which appears in the " Otago Daily Times" we notice that the application of the Beaumont and Tuapeka Water Kace Co. for a subsidy of £2OOO is likely to be granted. Four miners were blown out to sea in a boat from Newcastle Three of them were picked up, but the fourth was drowned.

At Alexander, a well was sunk by order of the Borough Council, but when the rock was reached, gold was found instead of water. The wash-dirt was. two feet thick. It is proposed to hand over the shaft for mining. ""Probably the first instance of a girl being killed in gold-mining," the Ballarat Courier of the Lst May remarks, " occured at Clydesdale last Monday. Mary Crow, aged 13, who with her sister had. assisted theirfather for some years in digging, was filling the bucket at the bottom of a. 40 ft. hole, when a lump of cement fell and struck her head."

The" TVakatip Mail" says:—The ins and outs, or the ups and downs of the Grace-Eagar case have afforded much food for speculation. There has been chasing and racing o'er the hills to Skippers and back, but with no evident result to the public. The bailiff (Mr. W. Donne) is in possession of the claim, and won't be put out. The telegraph wires are busily employed, and. now we hear five or six Dunedin lawyers are engaged by Grace, and party, and rumgur asserts the* terms—£2oo for tWtrip,.and a;refresher of £lO 10s. eaph-for every day over two. TliSr , '?Jb ; eatnen''.is beginning to assert himself; SOm < Friday - last, a - petition from 827 Chinese residents of the" Lake "Wakatip district, praying for "the removal of Mr Warden Beetham, was presented to the Provincial Council by Mr. Macassey. A nugget weighing 421bs Bozs, has been found at Dunolly. Sumours that alluvial gold has been brought secretly from the Waikato are again in strong circulation, but I can find no foundation for them.

A daughter of Scotia was united to a gentleman hailing from the Elowery Lafid by the Eegistrar last Teusday. The happy bridegroom is Mr. Chew Lain, one of the proprietors of the Chinese Empire Hotel, Tuapeka, and the bride was a barmaid in that establishment. The marriage was a very quiet affair. The bride and bridegroom accompanied by two Europeans, drove up to the Kegistrar's Office, and on the ceremony being performed, drove back again to the Chinese Camp. In the evening Mr. Chew Lain entertained some of his friends at his residence.—' Tuapeka Times.'

iEgles in the * Australasian' says : " A canvasser of a life assurance office (he doesn't represent the European now) was so vigorous in his solicitations that he enraged the gentleman whose premium he was trying to get. 'No,' said he, *I won't insure my life—but if you -could insure my soul I might give you a turn.' ' Ob, no,' was the reply, ' we" are strictly a life office —we don't take fire risks ? "