The Nelson Evening Mail FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1871.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 143, 23 June 1871, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1871.

The Beth Shan. — The Gothenburg reports having spoken this ship at the head of the Bay this morning. The Gothenburg arrived from lington and the South this morning, bY.ingiug us our usual files, which, however, contain no news of importance. . Winter Evening Lectures. —We once more remind our readers of the lecture to he delivered by Mr. F. C. Simmons, at the Assembly Room, this evening. Festival of St. John the Baptist. — This great Masonic Festival is to be celebrated this evening by a dianer at M'Gee's Hotel, when all the brethren of the Order are invited to attend. "Stodake's Wonders." — Mr. Stodare will give another performance at the Assembly Koom to-morrow evening, when the mystery of second sight will again be exhibited, together with music, tight-rope walking, and conjuring. Resident Magistrates' Court. — Thomas Wade was this morning; brought up before Lowtuer Broad Esq.,. R.M., charged with stealing an Inverness cape from the store of E. Buxton & Co., was sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment with hard labor. Football. — We are requested to state that au alphabetical match will be played to-morrow open to all players in the Town and. College Clubs. The sides will be from A. to H. versus I. to Z. As the sides are pretty equal, and a large number of players will show up, a good game h anticipated. An Explanation. — In our report of the meeting of the Culliford Company 'vill be found a discussion arising out of a paragraph in the Evening Mail of September last, the correctness of which Mr. Lightband took leave to doubt. Iv order to remove any misapprehension on the subject, we have made an extract from the letter referred to which co'inpl&tely exonerates us from auy attempt to deteive the public, as Mr. Bush pleasantly put it. It rims as follows : — " In the shaft a drive has been opened to the east at a depth of 65 feet from the surface, and driven 11 feet, when the reef was struck. It is a little over two feet thick, with gold plainly visible in the stone."

CULLIFORD GOLD-MINING COMPANY. The adjourned meeting of shareholders took place last night when the directors' report and the balance sheet were read and adopted, and Mr. S. Wad man elected a director in the place of Mr. Elton resigned. The following report on the tailings that were sent to the Geological department at Wellington for analysis was read by the Legal Manager. Tailings from the ground of the Culliford Goldmining Company, for examination for gold . About half-a-pound of a fair sample of these was crushed much finer than as received, and then well mixed with mercury at a temperature of from 100 to 130 degrees Fah. After being intermittingly stirred well about at this temperature for three hours, the mercury Avas separated from the tailings and retorted off, when a residue was obtained, but which wag much too small to weigh, or ever^to identify as to its nature by mere inspection^. On being chemically tested, however, it proved\o be principally gold. This* result shows that while there certainly is gold in the stone, it does not exist in such quantity as to lead one.justly to suspect that the battery at which these, tailings were crushed has lost any notable portion of it, owing to the circumstances stated in "your letter of the 26th May. • . - ■ ■ (Signed,) W. Sket. The Legal Manager eaid that a letter had been received from Mr. Gil! which he would read. It was as follows;— Wangapeka, IBjth 187 J. Deae Siß,-=rTbe .crushing fronV No. ? Reef waß washed up yesterday. The quantity crushed was about 5J tons, out of which has been obtained

about eight penny weights of retorted gold. Caldwell and party, have commenced to break out their stone, and will be ready to commence crushing on or about Monday, 26th inst. Yours truly, Isaac Gill. Mr. William Stavert. Mr. Bush read a paragraph f'rora the Evening Mail of September last stating that a letter had been received from the Mining Manager saying- that the shaft had been sunk 60ft &c, and that the reef had been discovered with gold visible in the stone. He should like to know whether Mr. Gill had really written such a letter, and if so what had become of the gold. -. „ Mr. Lightband believed that somfc such letter with reference to the shaft had- been received, but he did not think it said anything about gold being visible. The Legal Manager then read the following decision, at which the directors had arrived at their iasfc meeting. That the Directors, having taken into consideration the question of what ought now to be done with the Company, came to the conclusion that it would be advisable to collect all calls nowdue without delay, to stop all works and expenses in the meantime; pay all debts due,'-and r for at least four months, allow matters at the reef to stand as they are, and if at the end ot that time no new discoveries of value are made in the neighboring claims, then to call a special meeting of shareholders to get their consent to wind up the Company; the machine, during tlie four months to be let on terms to any Companies requiring its U3e. A resolution similar to the above was then proposed by Mr. Cooksey, seconded by Mr. Waters, and unanimously adopted, after which the meeting separated.