MINING NEWS. FROM THE " COROMANDEL MAIL."

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 55, 21 June 1884, Page 6

MINING NEWS. FROM THE " COROMANDEL MAIL."

Tokatka.— No change in main level. The ground is still very hard, and progress slow. Royal Oak. — The reef in low level looks first class. Nothing 1 payable so far, but rich gold may be got at any time. Couuv. — The drive to intersect the new leader is going in rapidly, and should soon cut the reef. Harbour View.— Pavkes' tributo still looks grand, and there is every appearance of another rich crushing shortly, [•ToiUKward Hound made another start to take out crushing stuff" from the little leader. Unfortunately the trial from the large reef did not prove payable. Qukkx oi<' Expand. --The drive to cut 'he reef is making rapid progress. Homething like half the expected distance has been driven. Uniox Bkaoh.— The (Jreon Harp intermediate level looks first class, although veiy little gold has been obtained up to the present. The manager is very sanguine of being able to pick up the old run ot gold. Marijwkl. — The manager reports getting good crushing »tuH' from various parts of the mine, some of it showing gold freely. Ho is gradually getting the mine into good working ordor, and will bo able to have a crushing j-bortly. Vizard's. — Things aro moving on very quiotly in this mine. They have a fine large reof said to be worth I.^ ounces to the ton, but none has yet been tried, owing to the difficulty of gotting it to the battery. The small leader is still looking well, and no doubt \\ ould pay well if a little more vigorously worked. M ata wai. — The manager reports the reef a good deal broken in the drive going north. Very little work has been done in southern end, except preparing the ground for stoping when the road is clear to the battery. Another paddock has been made to hold fetnfl, and will be found very useful. M ata wai, No. 2. — The shareholders have not yet succeeded in picking up anything payable. They have a nice reef in hand, but can only get colours by pounding. Theie is some slight doubt as to whether it is the miiuu as the Matawai reef. It is just possible they may have some distance to diive along the reef before getting gold.

What English Landowners Won't Swear By— By ({eorge ! Steamer Albion lias been surveyed at Wellington and found to be sound, Lyttolton eloctoral roll ha* been purged, and ISI names struck off. Air F. A. Whitaker consents to be "dialed at (Jroy's chariot wheels," Any dairymaid will inform you that the bravest cow will often turn pail, In France there are now 4,575 miles of navigable rivers, and 2,900 miles of canals. What next ? Dunedln teetotallers intend petitioning for the abolition of bottle licenses. "If it be true that the hairs of one's head are all numbered," said the man after he had escaped from his wife's clutches, "there will be one angel at least who will show up with a big deficit." Harry Erskine, who succeeded Henry Dundas, afterward Lord Melville, as Lord Advocate of Scotland, happening to have a female client of the name of Tickle, defendant in an action, commenced his speech in the following humorous strain :—": — " Tickle, my client, the defendant, my lord." The auditors, amused with the oddity of the speech, were almost driven into hysterics by the Judge replying, " Tickle her yourself, Harry. You are as able to do it as I." A fashionable lady being in urgent want of a pair of gloves, and finding that her maid was out, rang for her new footman, and told him to go and buy her a pair immediately. " You will ask for flesh-colour," were her last words. In five minutes he was back with a pair of dark-brown gloves. '•But I told you flesh-colour ?" cried his mistress indignantly. "Well, ma'am!" was John Thomas's only reply, as he held out his hands. ! A young lady from the country got into a tram car. In a minute or two the con- ! ductor came to her and said, " Your fare, I miss." The lady blushed. The conductor ! repeated, ''Your fare, miss." The lady i blushed more deeply. By this time the con- ! ductor began to look foolish. After a pause, however, he again repeated, " Miss, your fare." " AVell," said the lady, " they say at home that I am good-looking, but I don't see why you want to say it out so loud." Clergymen sometimes get answers they don't expect, even from children. One of them was questioning a Sunday-school class about the man who fell among thieves on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Bringing the story to a point, he asked : '• Now, why did the priests and Levite pass on the other side?" Ascholar held out his hand. "Well, my boy, why did the priest and Levite pass by on the other side ?" "I know," said the lad, "because the man was already! robbed." Prince Napoleon's recent complaint, that he was poor and lacked the Orleans gold, is supported by the ruthless manner in which he has just cut down his Swiss establishment. He has dismissed most of the old servants at La Bergerie, including even the intendant, who had been in his service for twenty-two years, and had rendered him the signal service, at the downfall of the Empire, of saving the Palais Royal Gash-box. All the curiosities, pictures, and historic objects which adorned the apartments at La Bergerie have been removed, and the place now presents a woefully dismantled aspect. — " Truth."