OUR GOLDFIELDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 414, 26 October 1889, Page 5

OUR GOLDFIELDS.

Thames, Oct. 23. Til** Cyledonian Cask. — In a telegiam yesterday I mentioned that the Caledonian Goldmining Company had decided to appeal to the Auckland Supreme Courb against the decision of Mr Warden North - eioit in the recent case of Alfred Sawyer v. that Company, in which plaintidwas awarded i! 375 damages and costs forinjurie^sustained by him on the 26th of March last, when descending the Caledonian shaft in a cage. I now learn that the grounds of appeal are as follow? :—:(1): — : (1) "Plmfc thoi*o waa no ovidonoo of negligence an tho pirt of the delendant Company, their agents, or servants) in ! eeping that poition ot the defendant's shaft where tho accident happened, \ and from Avhich complainant received the injuries cotnplainefl of, securely cased, lined, or otherwise made secure. (2) That there was no e\idence to show that the natural strata around the defendant'? shait were not gate. (3) There was no evidence to show that it was reasonably practicable prior to and up to the happening of the accident, and injuries before referred to for the defendant to comply with sub -section 23 of section 207 of the Mining Act, 1886, but on the contrary tho evidence proved that, such compliance was not reasonably practicable. (4) That the evidence proxed that' the complainant was guilty of contributory negligence. (5) That the damages awarded to the complainant are excecsive. Saxon. — Theie is no change to report in | the wrious woiks in pi ogress in this mine. I As the lesult of crushing operations with 32 head ot stampers at the Company's battery for the past week, there are 4300*5 of amalgam on hand. Lome Hami —Colours of gold are seen in the quartz coming to hand Jiom the stopes on tho leaders in the Lone Hand section, and aLo thu stopes on the Manchester leef.