MINING.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1744, 1 June 1895, Page 2

MINING.

' . • COOLGAEDIE . • : • Between the town of Coolgardie, the Western Australian hew, goldfields, and the coast, there is no railway com-’ munication, and the long stretches of waterless country interveningarovCiy 1 ; trying to horses, Buinmerhayes and Bamlett, two well-known Australian cyclists) liave established- a telegraphic and postal cycling express’, which is said to work with., and to -be much appreciated by the largo golil-digging population congregated. at the newly-Ostablished El Dorado, ' -

Two .men, who have recently been prospecting for. gold on a hill at Ri-waka,-in the Nelson district, disdoVered some kind of a roef. The owners of the property got wind of the matter, and when , the .prospectors were working at the place they were given to clear ofit, which :they did; ■ • ' 'v.'.r ... /■' ; —— *' GEAND JUNCTION, WAIHf * . • Erom Mr J. W, Walker, who is at present in Auckland, we learn that for the present boring operations in fhe Grand Sanction mine are suspended pending the arrival of tubes ■ ■ Yesterday* however, a cable message was despatched to the manager of the syn - dieate in London asking him to wire instruction to commence to sink a shaft 13 feet by 4 feet .on contract, ' The site of the proposed shaft is, we under- i stand, to be near that at Which the j bore has bedti put dowiii |