THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLYWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1046, 8 February 1882, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1882.

A meeting of the directors of the Rainy Creek Extended Company was held on Monday afternoon, when it was decided to commence operations at once. The battery is to receive a thorough overhaul, and an order was given for new castings to replace the present partly worn ones. Mr Hugh Graham has been appointed general manager of the company, and he has already tent up four men to start timbering the stopes and drives- In places where necessary, preparatory to the general resumption of work in the mine. It is believed that work will be sufficiently far advanced to allow of crushing to be ' commenced in five weeks time. Great interest will centre in the operations of this company during the next few months. It is admitted on all sides that the mine has not yet had a fair test, and this fact, for such it in reality is, taken with the magnitude of the reef, and completeness of the crushing plant, makes the present market, price of the shares (3s 6d) wholly disproportionate compared with the prices commanded by many other ventures in the field possessing neither reef nor crushing plant. The blocking of traffic on the Grey i road has proved a severe blow to the Comedy and Burlesque Company, who ; had completed their season here and were advertised to play in the Grey Valley on : Monday and the following nights. The company have been compelled to forego all their down country engagements, being still detained here. Much sympathy is felt for the company who will hardly fail to meet with some indulgence from the playgoers of Reefton. To-morrow night a Musical Re-union will be held in Eater's Hall, when Mr Barry O'Neil, Mr Mack Alexander, Mr Lissant and other members of the company will appear in a , series of new songs and characters, and on Friday evening a complimentary benefit will be tendered to Miss Amy Johns. The following nominations were received jljgl^^pi^WP^tt^ f^rth<soming^ v St. PalfckT HEoeff -^ District PJSte r Zoe, The Bat, Maid of Honor, Half-caste, Bide-a-wee, Rosina, Rustic, and Lillipie. For the Goldfields' Handicap : Zoe, Fishhook, Rawden, York, Rosina, Forester, Half-caste, Bide-a-wee, Orient, Satellite, Dan. O'ConneL Rustic, and Lillipie. Other nominations are expected by mail to-day. The coach from Greymouth did not arrive last night, having been delayed through the closing of the Arnold bridge, and the floods. The mails will leave Greymouth to-morrow, returning 'on Thursday. The proper running will be resumed on Friday, when the Arnold bridge will be re-opened. A novel feature will be introduced at the concert on next Thursday night, at Kater's Hall, when Mr Arthur Lissant of the Society of Painters in Water Colors, will introduce his lightning caricatures of local celebrities, drawing them in the presence of the audience, and not taking more than a few seconds to each. This class of entertainment has found great favor at Home of late, and if we mistake not will prove a great attraction on Thursday night next. The diamond drill lately at Temora has (sayß the Temora Herald) struck water and there is no doubt but that with organised effort a sufficient supply could be got for mining purposes. Water was found at a depth of 160 ft., but at 450 ft. boring is to be stopped. It should have been continued to a greater depth so as to thoroughly test the ground. ' In some places, in the valley of the Darling, two or more successive beds of saltwater have been discovered by boring, and passing them a supply of fresh water found at a still greater depth. Mr Watson's motion for a vote of £20,000 to procure diamond drills to search for water and minerals is a good idea, and one which the Government should follow up. We have rich treasures of water and mineral wealth which might be discovered by this means and made to contribute largely, to the prosperity of the country. The Barnes Gold-mining Company, Avocfv, according to the Mail, intend sending their pyrites to the Frieberg works Germany, for treatment. Fifty tons will be sent by the Rohilla. The shipments are expected to average 200 tons per quarter, and the Melbourne shipping agents advance £2 a ton on the ore. When the new pyrites works at Yarraville are completed, which will be in a couple of months, it is proposed to give them a trial. One cubic |oot of pure gold weighs 17, 5550z Troy, equal to about 10 cwt 3gr Avoirdupois. The Oriont liners have made the fastestirjpa, the Orient, and Sorata about 35 days. The Thermopylae Bailing vessel took 59 .lays to Capo Otway, and 62 days from •I''c]c3 to anchorage.

vineyards are now things of the past, most of them having been rooted up under the provisions of the Vine Disease Prevention Act. Professor Denton in a recent lecture stated, "In the Sandhurst district there are 5000 sqeare miles of gold-bearing territory, only 17$ of which have been worked, and, in New South Wales there are 2,200,000 acres of such territory. He believed that mining would be carried on in the future with great profit to a depth of 5000 ft, and that it would then be a far more certain speculation than it is at present. A correspondent at Newcastle telegraphs that the diamond drill working on Mr Alison's estate of Wyong, 20 miles north of.Gosford, Brisbane Water, and two miles from the proposed line of railway from Sydney toWaratah, which a few weeks ago, at a depth of 537 ft, pierced a sft seam of coal, has now at 670 ft penetrated anßffcseamof coal of a splendid quality for gas and cooking purposes. Messrs. Alison and Fountain possess what appears to be one of the finest seams of iron ore in the world. In time Brisbane Water should become the chief manufacturing locality of New South Wales, and to hasten that time forward the railway should be proceeded with without delay. Ned Trickett, accobfUftg«^*o 'private letters received in Sydney (says the Bulletin), is not likely to return to Sydney until his luck changes, or he finds himself utterly unable to get on any more matches. Hitherto he has had the greatest difficulty in arranging for any contest. It is a fact that the most prominent of Hanlan's late supporters has offered to back Trickett to row any man in Canada or America, Hanlan included, for 10,000dol. but no response had been made up ip the time the mail left ; and though we Were some weeks ago informed by fable that a match between Hanlan and Trickett had been arranged for the 23rd of this month, a later wire says that the match was not likely to eventuate at once, whether it is absolutely off or has merely been postponed can only be a matter for conjecture until the arrival of the San Francisco steamer. A gentleman from the United States by the last mail informs us that before his departure he heard Trickett's backers say that now Ned has been " fixed up," as Hanlan was, and properly tutored in the use of the slide, he can confidently be relied on to beat the Canadian.