MINING- INCIDENTS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 532, 20 July 1869, Page 2

MINING- INCIDENTS.

.Rumours of fresh gold discoveries in Wellington, says the Post, are flying about in all directions. A few days ago we heard of gold being found in PolhilPs Gully ; next, it was said that some one had struck a patch in tty neighborhood of Mount Victoria ; anl yesterday, Sunday though it was, some enterprising individual washed a few specks out of place in the Tinakori Koad, not far from the residence of Mr Justice Johnston. Surely, with all these evidences that gold does exist in the neighborhood, the right place will be found at last. The parties at work in the Long, wood Ranges, Southland, are reported to have met with increasingly numerous indications of the auriferous cbaraeter of the spurs on which they have been at work. Several specimens of quartz obtaiued by them are stated bv competent judges to be as rich as almost any hitherto found in the colony. Operations have once mnro bean commenced in the Deep Shaft, Wethcrstor.es, Otago, the contractor beink actively engaged in pumping out the water with which it is filled. The Melbourne Telegraph reports a peculiar phenomenon, not altogether unknown in the mining world, ocearring the other evening at the claim of the Duke of near Maryborough. Some men were at the bottom of the shaft engaged in sinking the bore, when a tremulous movement of the ground beneath them, accompanied with an upheaval of matter, so alarmed them that they immediatelj telegraphed for the bucket, which was at once lowered. Into it they at once got, and not a moment too soon, for as they were drawn up they were surrounded with a vast column of mud and water, and it is said that the bucket was so buoyed up with the stuff that the hands at the windlass felt no difficulty in winding. The matter rose up with them to the height of GO feet. Private letters state that gold has j been discovered in the most northerly portion of her Majesty's dominiousuamely, in the island of Unst, Shetland. Specimens had been brought to Le;- j wick for inspection.