MINING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 35, 12 February 1890, Page 8

MINING NEWS.

Coeomandel, this day.

Royal Oak.—The Manager reports : — " Have broken down reef to-day; sibs picked stor.e, good crushing dirt. Reef broken showing good mineral, but no gold." Thames, this day. New Albuknia.—This afternoon, th^ mine manager wired, "Ten lbs fair picked atone obtained, and twenty lbs showing dabs and colours of gold."

Bishop Selwyn, of Melanesia, was to have returned to his work 'by the P. and O. steamer Shannon, leaving England on December 26th. He was, however, in bed with a severe attack of island foyer on that day, and when hi 3 last letter left England it was uncertain how soon his doctor would allow him to travel.

Mr VV. Gulliver has just received specimen copies of the maps of Hawke's Bay provincial district, which have just been issued at Napier. They are admirably got up, and are very complete. It is probable that an agency will be established in Auckland.

The wanton destruction of seagulls so commonly indulged in must have excited the indignation of every lover of these beautiful birds. We are glad to learn that steps will be taken to punish any person found guilty of this practice in future. A notice appears in our advertising columns drawing public attention to the fact that seagulls are included in the list of native birds which have been protected by law.

Late last nighfe a woman named Margaret Connor, who keeps a boarding-house in Customs-street near the Thames Hotel, was brought to the Hospital, suffering from an injury to her ankle caused by a cab running over it. She was getting out of the cab to go into the hous9 when the horse stepped forward with the above result. The injury is not very serious.

Four of the crew of the Duke of Westminster, now lying in port, were making rather merry this afternoon, and the result was that they were run up to the Police Station on a charge of drunkenness. They certainly had the means of a big " spree " about them, for each was supplied with a bottle of good old whisky. The usual crowd of larrikins and small boys escorted them to the doors of the station.

By the brigantine Lady Mabel, which sails hence in a couple of days for How, land Island to load guano for Australia, Captain Peter Theeb, a well-known Auckland shipmaster, leaves to take permanent charge of the guano-shipping operations on that Island for the owners M9ssrs Arundel and Co. Captain Theet has at times commanded the Auuklaud schooners Mazeppa, Rynp, Ika Vuka, Orpheus, and others in the Island trade.