The Goldmining "Boom"

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 6

The Goldmining "Boom"

The extraordinary craze which has for two months or more raged in London for goldmining shares has, as might have been expected, other causes than the mere extras agunt "puffing" of interested agents or enthusiastic Government Wai dens. The "Financial Nfn\s," referring to the gold fever, gives the following as the cause of it :— " All the small speculators, who a few months ago were playing pitch -and -toss in American rails or Grand Trunks, hare left these tricky markets to themselves and have started a game of their own. Mines are the retail speculator's speciality He feels at home in them, and knows that he has at least as good a chance to Avin ns anybody else. They may be dice he plays w ith, but they are not cogged dice. " Asshovving the extreme development of the mania, it is stated that recently a number of wealthy city men went into the office of a well-known Agent-Geneial, and asked it he had any gold mines about. No matter A\here they Mere; if he know of any locality in his colony where there -was an undeveloped gold mine, they weie prepared to float a company to work ifc > The demand for gold-mining shares has kept in advance ol Hie eupply, and despite the number of new companies floated, the bhares. have rapidly gone up in value. Writing- on 22nd October a correspondent in London says :—" The shaven of the Bonnie Dundee weie floated at ss, and ate now at from Ss to Os premium. The Ethcridge Gnldfield Company's shares wore placed on the market at 5s a shave, and the piesent price is £2 ss. The Canadian ti old-mine Company, nlso on the Ethcridge field, was floated with shares at 5s each and arc uaw at a jiremiiun of 7« Gd. Tho Cumberland shni c q n 3re flouted at 3s each, and aie noM" at a premium of from 16s to 18%. Theshaies ot the Livingstone Company are at a premium of 2s Od to ss. In Victoiian mines there has been floated the Fryer's Creek, the shares of which are at a premium of 5s 6d to 6s> 6d ; and in Now Zealand mines, the Coromandel, the shares of "tthich aie fiom 5s to 10s premium.' 1 Although this lively inteiest in colonial mining stocks will lesult in great present advantage to certain colonies, the "boom" is on several grounds to be deplored, and chiefly because of the oppor tunity it will givo for the working off of "duffer" claims on the English "public, with the inevitable reaction when the crash comes and when all colonial mining Investments -will suffer seriously in reputation. — Auckland Star.

A poor young man out; of the olbowe does not feel like laughing in hfe "leevas.

Four Sailors Dead from Exposure. London, December 10. The barque Earlscourfc, 1,06'S tons, Captain Fremjjton, bound for Albany, We.item Anatralia, -with a cargo of railway material, baa been wrecked on the coast of Glamorganshire. Four of her crew died from exposure, She hull of tho vessel remains intacts. The Earl's < ourt is u new vessel, having beon built in Glasgow In )88D, awl is owned by Mr W, J, KTdd, of Liverpool.

WHAT IS THIS DISEASE THAT IS COMING UPON US.

Like a thief at night it steals in upon u» unawares. Many persons have pains about the chest and sides, and sometimes in th» back. They teel dull and sleepy j the mouth Has a bad taste especially in the morning. A sort of sticky slime collects about the teeth. The appetite is poor. There is * teeYmg like a heavy load on the stomach ; sometimes a faint all-gone sensation at the pit of the stomach which food does not satisfy. The eyes are sunken, the hands and feet become cold and feel clammy. After a while a cough sets in at first dryv but after a tew months it is attended with a greenish coloured expectoration. The afilicted one feels tired all the while, and sleep docs not seem to afford any rest, After a time ho becomes nervous, irritable, and gloom \, and has evil forebodings,, There is a giddiness, a sort of whirling sensation in the head when rising up suddenly,. The bowels become co&tive ; the skin is dry and hot at times ; the blood becomes thick and stagnant ; the whites of th« eyes become tinged with yellow, the urin* is scanty and high coloured, depositing a sediment after standing There is frequently a spitting up of the food, sometimes with a sour taste, and bometimes with asu eeti.^h taste ; this is frequently attended with palpitation of the heart; th« vision becomes impaired with spots befora the eyes ; there ie a feciiug of great pros* tration and weakness. AU of these symptoms aie in tmn present. It is thought that nearly one third of our population Baa this disease in some of its varied forms. It has been found that ny dical men hay* mistaken the nature of this disease. Son^, have treated it for a liver complaint, others for kidney disease, etc., but none of, the) various kinds of treatment have been attei* ded A\ilh success, becau&e the rfemed^y nhould be such as to act harmoniously upon each one of these organs, and upon the stomach as well ; for in Dyspepsia (for this is really what the disea&e is) all of thes© oi'gans partake of this disease and require a remedy that will act upon all at the same> time. Siegel's Curative Syrup acts like a chai mm this clas-s of complaints, giving almost immediate relief. The following; letters from chemists of standing in the community where they live show in what -mation the article is held. 3 olm Archer, Hanhili, near Sheffield :— I can ronfidently recommend it to all whfi may be snfleiing iroin lher or stomach cpmplaints, having the testimony of my customers, who have derived great benefit from the Syrup and Pills. The sale is increasing Mondci fully. Gco A. 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Annaleud, Market Street, Dalton-iu-Furuess :— lt iv edless for uio to say that your valuable me Koines have gieat sale in this district — greater than any other I know oi, giving grc.it safisfaction. Kobt. Lame, Melksh.im :~I can well recommend the Cmarive Syrup from having proved its efticacy for indigestion myself. Friockhoim, Arbvoath, Forfarshire, Sept 23, ISS2 Bear Sir,— Last year I sent you a letter i ©commending Mother. Soigel's Syrup _ I have vory much pleasure in still bearing testimony to the veiy satisfactory results of the i.vmed Syrup and Pills. Most patent medicines die out with mo ; but Mother Seiuel has had a steady sale ever since I commenced, and is still in as great demamK as when I first began to sell the medicine. The cures which have come under my notice are chiefly tho&e of liver complaint and general debility. A certain minister in my neighbourhood says it is the only thing which has benefited him and restored him to his normal condition of health after being unable to preach for a considerable length of time. I could mention also a great many other cases, but space would not allow. A near friend of mine, who is very much addicted to costive ness or constipation, finds that Mother Soigel's Pills are the only Pills which suit his complaint. All other pills cause a reaction, which is very annoying. Mother Seigel's Pills do not leave a, bad after-effect. I havo much pleasure in commending cgaia to suffering humanity Mother Scigel's medicines, which are no sham, IF this letter is> of any service you can publish it. Yours very truly, (Signed) Wsi. S. Glass, Chemist. A. J. White, Esq. 15th August, ISS3. 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