MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 183, 6 September 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

In regard to the Australian cable,! we take the following from the Tara- ] naki Herald' of the 20th instant; i - i -" As it may be interesting to our! readers to know the course' taken by a! message transmitted. froqi'England".-, to ! Australia,: we shall briefly mention; the different places the telegraph! would pass through. Leaving Falmouth it would go to Gibraltar, from! Gibraltar toj .Malta, from, Malta to Alexandra by three lengths of submarine cable.. Then by land lines! across the Isthmus of Suez. Then by ; cable again under the lied Sea to Aden,' and by another length of cable from Aden to Bombay. The Australian message takes to the land again here, and crosses India by the Govern-! rnent lines to, Madras. At. Madras it is once more transferred to a submarine cable, and.is carried to Singapore, touching at Penang. lip to this point messages .for China ,and. for Australia follow the same route. Here, they diverge, those for China bein tar! ken northwards to Hongkong, Amoy, or ShanghSrf while- the Australian message, which .it is our business to ! follow, ik transmitted fry cable to Ba- 1 tayia, in Java, where it is taken along the Dutch lines to Banjbewaiigee, and from, thence by cable once more under; the sea, to Port Darwin, on the north side of Australia. , .

Mr. F. Ziegfeld, director of the Chicago Acadetny of Music, is now in X ondon as special commissioner of the " Boston International Musical Peace Jubilee." ilis mission is to complete the final arrangements for the co-oper-ation of the English and Continental musicians, as well as-for official and Governmental assistance in this great project. He is to tender invitations to Sovereigns of Europe, on behalf of the city of Boston, to attend the jubilee. He will visit the capitals of France, Germany, Austria, liussia, and Belgium, and has assurances of obtaining the countenance of those countries in furthering the undertaking. The plan of the jubilee embraces an enormous building, on which work has been commenced, capable of seating 100,000 persons, a chorus of 30,000 singers, an orchestra of 5000 players, and other equally gigantic features. The San Francisco Bulletin says : "In California most of the mining has been done by co-operative labour, during tyrenty-y,ears. Perhaps f to be quite correct, we ought io say most of the more importainib mining has been so done, for at the ,outset when .the surface deposits were un? skimmed of their richness, individuals could mine alone-very prdfUa'blvy little if any machinery.. s was. required,; - and the .first, day of labour brought its shining reward at night. But when rivers" were to be turned, deep excavations drained, tunnels cut, high banks sluiced away ,by..the -hydraulic, process, and veins of rock followed, co-operation was •; necessary, .and/all through the mining regions of the State impromptu ' companies' were formed, composed mainly of men who had discovered the

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tsl W > -tb cir ;, pr^tes ivgjPi&X u r current wages. The cases in which mines in this • S fcate are wor keel by;, associations of capitalists are still exceptional. The great bulk 'of'the - gold product of Californiahas ted by simple co-operative JtsVociations °f l^b'ours, ; or byindividuals, . hiring assistance workiiig alo the debate on .the Permissive Bill in the [liouse of Mr. Plimsell House an' account of a to Americk'tb"' ascertain the working the Liquor liaws there, demonstrating fcb*».ir fail-' l J J- InPortland,, .the chief town of Maine, a place of <31,009 inhabitants, tbere are about 390 publichouses, arid! 2090 arrests for drunkenness evervi year, tfrough the Osale of is entirely forbidden. 1 •The area within the Colony 3,595 miles of "water races, carrying 7,056 sluice heads, constructed at an estimated cost of -1i71i,356 ; but eveni this seemingly supply is not nearly; sufficient to meet the pressing demands of tbe present workings,' either alluvial.or .quartz. It will be 1 seen by reference to the Warden's re-: ports that iri 'many- districts in the Province of Otago and .County of! Westland, mining operations were en- i tirely suspended for two or threej months during the last' : summer from; the want'of water. * ' ■ 'i

The Pope'was_ eighty years of age on the 13th Mav. v j

Mining matters at Tuapeka are. very! dull.. A correspondent, writing "to a contemporary, says The accounts' from the river bank ..claims, arp anything but clieeririg • many tlainWlatelyj taken up have ,been ; abandoned, notbeing worth the working. : There vis an uneasy feeling; amongstmany,of the' miners. Tnose who have the means, propose'seeking pastures new. in the adjacent colonies. Many Chinamen have already left, and many more-.would gladly leave were they possessed of the means.

The Shag Yalley Quartz Mining Company are about to develope the gold resources of the Shag Valiey. A\ company has bce.it formed to work some .91 acres of freehold (exclusive; of the- valuable prospecting claim) through which a gold bearing quartz reef runs, the stone put, of which- gave an average of 16dwts. to the ton. The engine, battery, and entire plant of the Duke of Edinburgh at Macraes- which are acknowledged by competent judges to be the best of the kind in the ; Province, have been purchased. ..