MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 25, 30 January 1871, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

MR. H. J. L. AUGARDE'S WEEKLY REPORT. Culliford Shares, £3 10s. paid. Business none. There is a disposition to sell a few shares, but investors prefer to wait for the results of the first crushing, which will take place about the middle of February, although the whole of the extras cast by Mr. Moutray are not yet arrived at the machine site. : The calls are being paid up well considering the trade position of Nelson. -..Perseverance Shares, £2 paid. Inactive. A small parcel of shares on the market. Mr. Curtis has resigned, and his resignation . been accepted. Mc. Adams' resignation led to the election of Mr. Milner. No gold came oyer this, week from the mine; we may fully expect some the next trip of the Lady Barkly. Plans ahd specifications have been' received from the working manager relative to the extension of the water race. The coat of thexintended; improvement ;^il;be about £100&£ father .? this will lie managed }wi thou t maklnjg a call is ; un.certain. VAppJicatiq^ parties desirous of being Legal .Manager *fo^'tlii^.c^ ted ;\ ;i'f'B.ep9'r t '•'. >says Ahifoßr&y'MdZrfw'&Z, geqiiiemeni' xia :: . thel* xfi«»w "•'' Z'Zaa- '->'■ -yy :••>;• '■■'^'■y/jyAyy ■ ; uciu. t - /•?■„, i \- ;;■:. j\',-y.; yy/yy} ;yy- •-:■■■ •'■:.'7/"..' -^'"77 .<■

Collingwood Coal Company's Shakes, £140 paid. Nothing new, A meeting of the shareholders will take place at Collingwood* on the Bth February, when many improvements will be proposed, and, it is hoped, carried out. Want of money is the only drawback to the working of this remunerative property. Energetic action is wanted as the summer is gliding away, and no time should be lost. Waimea South Quartz Crushing Company, 10s. paid. Tenders are invited to convey the machinery from the edge of theßush to the machinesite. and will be open till Wednesday the Ist February, (he vt eight of which is seven tons. It is hoped that no time will be lost in getting this machinery on the ground and at work. Doran's Goldmining Company's Shares, £l 10s. paid. The call due on the Bth February next, must not be overlooked. Tlie machinery is advancing under the skilled hands of Mr. Moutray towards completion, Sutherland Goldmining Company's Shares, £1 paid. Everythng is progressing and the arrival of machinery is anxiously looked for from Auckland. Pioneer Shares, £8 paid. Lucky Hit Shares, £10 paid. Masonic Shares, £12 10s. paid. Mount Ophir Shares, £9 paid, and Commercial Shares, £19 15s. paid. Quite without business. Our share market is at present passing through the probation of calls and contracts, which of course must be paid for ; still the mining events are important, Mr. Curtis's resignation of Legal Managership of the Perseverauce is one event, Mr. Adams' resignation of a seat in the Direction is another, he being a promoter. This will tend to an alteration, whether for better or worse remains t> be seen. The enlargiug of the works is another event which will thoroughly test and prove the capabilities of the mine,inasmuch as it will enable it to be worked on a larger scale, which will produce more gold, and thus by quickening the returns, be the means of saving money. The work is progressing in the Decimal Company, the drive is 100 feet in The indications are still favorable. In the other claims nothing doing, A deal of gold comes over from various alluvial patches. The ensuing two or "three months will have a great effect on Nelson, as three batteries will be at work within 60 miles of the town, in addition to the Upper Buller aud Collingwood, and this must tend to the long desired, and anxiously looked-for advance in prosperity and the restoration of trade The Independent says, in allusion to the Nelson Auniversary :— " Id common courtesy to the large number of Nelson people attending our anniversary, we thiuk our fellow citizens should return the compliment by accepting the opportunity offered by the steamship Phoebe, leaving here on Monday next, to celebrate the anniversary of the Nelson Province on the Ist February. . We are informed that the Phoebe will call at Picton, proceeding through the French Pass, arriving at Nelsou early on Tuesday morning, remaining there uutil Thursday, thus giving excursionists plenty of time, both to enjoy the sports of the day, and pay a visit to the delightful country around Nelson. Our friends in the Province of Wellington, N.Z., (says the Australasian) appear to be in desperate financial straits. The Provincial Government has stopped payment; the officials have received no salaries for months ; and even the day laborers on the public roads are in a similar plight. Like Mr. Micawber, who, in the midst of pressing embarrassments, found time to meditate throwing out a bow window for the improvement of his sittingroom, the authorities at Wellington are prosecuting, at this very moment, a costly survey of a line of railway which is to connect the provincial capital with every other town in the North Island. It is going to borrow a few millions to execute this work with j and at the same time it is obliged to importune the General Government to step in and assume a portiou of the provincial liabilities. Wellington is already weighted with its proportion of a debt of eight millions sterling, and ; cannot pay its way. It finds itself in the position, of the young spendthrift in one of Jerrold's comedies. "How came you to getoyer head and ears in debt like this ?" asks his exasperated father. "It was so ~— esisy," rejoined the prodigal. Colonies, have the Bar_ie ; fatal; facility, for contracting xdebts which .young men with good expectations experience. But the xbotrowers '-': are ■-„,;i rtadel to smart iforX itafterwards,^ t ies/ which :have "beenXsobajger to mortgage fjkieir^ r^ser^irs> jwhichj, w^'tx hold watery and j Ss^phbn^ :||iijßJ^ y

in theory, but it turns out to ba very Co3tly iu practice. Hard up. — The following extraordinary letter disclosing a truly pitiable state of things, so far as Wellington is concerned, appeared in Wednesday's Evening Post. . It is signed by the Secretary of fie Wreck Eecovering Company : — " Sir — I observe that somenotice is taken in your is^ue of last evening of the case of a stowaway who came over from Nelson in the Taranaki. It is not correctly reported that an arrangement has been made with the purser for payment of the man's passage. ' He was discharged, on the ground that the Province could not afford to keep him in gaol, if locked up." A Hoax. — By a telegram dated Napier January 26, we learn that a man, named Donaldson, made his appearance at Johnston's and Westrupp's shearing shed at Poverty Bay in his shirt, alone, stating that he had just escaped from Te Kooti, and that his mate, Feed, had been tomahawked. Major Westrupp called for volunteers, went out, and ascertained that the statement was false. The Press (Canterbury) says that what might have been a fatal poisoning case was happily prevented by the activity of the police. It appears that one day last week a person in the city purchased at one of the chemists' shops some medicine for her son up country, l^fng, we believe, near Oxford ; and by mistake, insfead of taking the medieiffe, took a bottle of sulphuric acid, which she gave her son to take home. Shortly after the mistake was discovered the police got to hear of it, and instantly a mounted sergeant was dispatched after the sulphuric acid. Through tbe prompt action taken the truant bottle was recovered in time to stop any mischief happening. Cricket in CANTERausr. — In the adjoining province of Canterbury cricketing seems to be carried out iu the good old Euglish style, and that attention paid to details, by which alone the game can be carried out satisfactorily. In reporting the late match between the eleven of Canterbury and Otago the Lyttelton Times says :« — The ground was in most beautiful order, a fact which, considering the late hot weather, as evidenced by the very parched state of the grass, around the refreshingly green wicket, speaks volumes for the unremitting attention bestowed upon it. The spot selected for the wicket was more like the surface of a billiard table than anything else, so finely cut was the grass, and so nicely level the ground. It was, without doubt, the be'st we have ever seen even in this well-cared-for cricketing enclosure, and called forth high encomiums from all qualified judges. The general arrangements of the match committee were also of a very perfect nature. The public were kept at a proper distance from the wicket by means of a series of posts, bearing notices, and the number of tents pitched at various points, were almost enough to make a small encampment. First there was a scorer's tent ond two others for the geueral use of tbe cricketersj then there was a large marquee specially devoted to the ladies ; ; a series of military bell-tents at intervals round the circle for the convenience of the general public j and last, but in the face of such hot weather by no means theleast, a refreshment tent of pretentious size loomed largely in the vicinity of the pavilion, the whole forming a very imposing ensemble,. Tbe attendance from one o'clock was very large, and included, many ladies, whilst to further enhance the scene, the Cavalry Band _ played some ol their most popular airs in front of the pavilion. The scoring in the game was done in the orthodox manner, and was so well attended to that the varying chances of the play could be followed with the greatest ease by all. The Australasian thus discourses on protection : — '.. The schoolmaster is abroad " with a vengeance. Somebody has been found audacious enough to affirm the following propositions : — (1) that protection does not conflict with the laws of God's Providence ; and (2) that free trade is a modern theory. Is^it not high time that the schoolmasterjffould return from abroad, and comjpence teaching our population tbeymements of political economy, and^^uV rudiments of history ? Protection, as every man ought to khow^ ; tbok- its riser in the dark ages, while freedom of commerce was guaranteed to Englishmen, and to foreigners trading with Englishmen, by Magna Charta. Perhaps the most concise statement of the harmony which subsists between the principles of free trade, , and. the laws of nature is to be found'. ln the letter .given by an statesman to Sir •iHiagh !Wlilbugbhy aud Captain 'CbAnceirduT^'wheii tliey set out bu their : faraous^byage '-, o ! \ discover^,^ \ disposition t ib ' "cultiy ate ' 'ihe '',' x'joye^, Vand '''■friendship, b'fxhis. kind,; implan'te<3 f\ffy the Almighty ym- tthe'x' , heart',: of * , !manV Z "the" •dppumenfeVgpi^Jxph jto^siEiy :^*^For the , God of heaven-, aod^

viding for mankinde, would not that all things should be found in one region, to the ende that one should have need .of another, that by this means friendship might be established among' all men, and everyone seek to gratifie all." Similar in effect was an admirable remonstrance against the wickedness and impolicy of protection, published in France in 1668. In this the writer,' after pointing out the wide diversity and distribution of the bounties of nature, proceeds to say : — "We ought, therefore, to perceive that Providence has established this diversity in order to oblige mankind, by the mutual need they have of each other, to exchange all such things as are necessary to them. And this bond of civil society (i.e. free trade) is as old as the world itself. Non omnis fert omnia teiius." Incontestable truths like these might be advantageously expounded from our pulpits. The natives allow the mail to Tauranga to run, provided it is made up as a parceL^f they are afraid it may otherwise be4^ regarded as recognising the Queen u™ authority. Since Queen Victoria took her place on the English Throne, thirty-three years ago, every other throne iu Europe, from the least unto the greatest, has changed occupants. Among the ladies who have so nobly gone in person to the relief of the sick and wounded in the war is Miss Kingsley, daughter of the canon and novelist. For remainder of News see Fourth page.