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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 94, 7 April 1876, Page 4

At the Halcyon claim, Mokihinui, Mr Wilson, a few days ago, tested a soup-plate full of old tailings, and obtained an ounce and a half of gold from it. It would appear from this thet a large quantity of gold has been lost in the crushings. Recently forty ! miners with an aggregate amount of £3000 of savings left the Thames for New South Wales by the Hero, which steamer took a considerable number of diggers on the previous trip, who had over £4000 amongst them. An improvement or at least a novelty says the West Coast Times, has been introduced in tbe painting of signs by the artist who has painted on the walls of the Telegraph Office staircase an object pointing the way to tbe receiving room. The figure of an arrow or of the human hand is usually employed for the purpose, but the artist in this instance has substituted what is probably a representation of a moa's claw. At least if is not that, it may be anything else except the likeness of a man's hand. Some time last year (says the MarU borough Express) the Provincial Government arranged for a direct shipment of immigrants to this district, to be sent so as to arrive in September last. This project was however defeated by the better knowledge or inattention of the Agent-General's office, and all through the harvest time there arrived driblets of two or three at a time, whereby the supply was totally inadequate to the demand. To our utter astonishment and dißmay we learned by' the mail that a party of 60 immigrants are on their way for Marlborough by the Fern Glen, which will be due at Nelson in a week or two. ,We have arrived at the opinion thnt'it ib high time free immigration ceased. What these people are to do, arriving here in the winter, we have no' conception. A Reefton telegram* of Saturday last, to the G. It. Argus, says :— -The directors of the Energetic, Ajax, Golden Ledge, Keep -it '<• dark, and Crushing Companies, having posted notices on the mines that after tha 3 1st March the rate of wageß would be reduced from £3 lOsto £3 per week, the greatest dissatisfaction has arisen. A masß meeting of miners of Murray Creek was held at Black's Point, last night, when the meeting resolved to resist the reduotion, and the nucleus of a strike union was formed, and steps taken to secure the co-operation of every miner in the district. Funds are to be collected to support married men on strike, and determined efforts are to be made to prevent men being employed to keep the mines in repair pending the Battlement of the strike. Telegrams are to be- forwarded to all the mining centres of New Zealand warning and advising miners not to oome to Inangahua. The tone of the meeting was very determined. The probability is that ah obstinate stand will be made against the reduction. The whole pf tbe Energetio workmen are on strike, and men' refused to accept £3 10s to keep the mine in repair.