if skilfully mined on a large scale; and it would
appear that this fact is becoming every day
more widely recognised among those engaged in
mining enterprises."

The Waverley district is but one of nine that
are worked with more or less success in Nova
Scotia. In the months of July, August, and
September, prior to our visit, the total yield of
gold for the districts of Stormont, Wine
Harbour, Sherbrooke, Tangier, Montagu, Waverley,
Oldham, Renfrew, and other unproclaimed
districts, was six thousand four hundred and
sixty-eight ounces six pennyweights, representing
a value of upwards of twenty-five thousand
pounds sterling. In the previous quarter, from
March to July, the yield was seven thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight ounces; but as
the summer of 1865 had been unusually dry,
the operations at nearly all the mines were
either greatly impeded or wholly suspended by
want of water to supply the crushing mills.
The total yield for the financial year ending on
the 30th of September was twenty-four thousand
nine hundred and seven ounces five pennyweights
twenty-two grains, of the value, as the
gold is exceedingly pure, of four pounds per
ounce, or ninety-nine thousand six hundred and
twenty-eight pounds. The largest number of
men employed in any of the mines is by the
German Company at Waverley. Their wages
are one dollar per diem, or five thousand two
hundred dollars per working month of twenty-
six days. In the month of July the company
produced one thousand three hundred and
sixty-eight ounces of gold, which, at four
pounds per ounce, would amount to five
thousand four hundred and seventy-two pounds, or
twenty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty
dollars, leaving a balance of twenty-one thousand
five hundred and twenty dollars for wear
and tear of machinery, incidental expenses, and
net profit. As the maximum yield per ton at
these mines for this particular month was only
two ounces seven pennyweights twenty grains,
it can easily be seen how vast an amount of
labour was performed, and how profitable Nova
Scotia mining now is, and promises to be
hereafter, when the resources of the country are
still further developed, and when many hopeful
enterprises that now languish for want of labour
are prosecuted with proper vigour. "The
increase," said our guide, "has been marked and
satisfactory since gold mining was originally
commenced in 1862. In that year the yield
of all the mines was seven thousand eleven
hundred and ten ounces; in 1863 it was fourteen
thousand and one ounces, or nearly double;
in 1864, when, by a change made in the fiscal
year, the accounts were only brought up to
September 30, or nine months, the yield was
fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty-five ounces;
and from September 30, 1864, to September 30,
1865, it was twenty-four thousand seven hundred
and twenty-seven ounces." Our guide
considered, from a variety of indications, that gold
mining in Nova Scotia was only in its infancy,
and that the great impediment in the way of its
more successful prosecution was the scarcity of
labour. No prizes were offered to the mere
speculator; the digger, as in California and
Australia, does not and cannot stand on his own
basis, and has no expectations of being rewarded
in one forenoon with a nugget that might be
the recompense of years of labour, as has
sometimes happened in the richer auriferous lands.
All has to be done on plan and on system, with
the nicest adaptation of means to ends, and with
the greatest amount of skill and science as well
as of economy. Consequently, the gold mines of
Nova Scotia attract no crowds, and their
exploitation is left to people who thoroughly
understand what they are about—who do not
expect to grow rich at a bound—and who are
content to make large profits without boasting
too loudly to the outer world, either of their
deeds or their expectations.

As there is nobody on earth, if we did but
know all about everybody on earth, who would
not be found to have a pet grievance, so these
prosperous and thrifty gold miners of Nova
Scotia have theirs. It is not a very large one, it
must be confessed. It appears that all the gold
of Nova Scotia is shipped for Europe by the
Cunard steamers from Boston to Liverpool,
which put in every fortnight to Halifax, and
that, either by oversight or by strict adherence to
established routine, this gold is entered as the
product of the first port of departure, and
that, consequently, New England rather than
Nova Scotia has credit in the markets of Europe
for this much precious metal. This grievance
—if grievance it be—the Messrs. Cunard, if
their attention be thus directed to it, may easily
remedy. The stroke of the pen of one of their
clerks may do it, and these jealous colonists—
jealous only of the Americans—may be pacified
and satisfied.

THE CABMAN'S GUIDE.

LET it be known that the four-wheelers have
an organ, the Hansoms a medium of
communication between themselves and the public,
the omnibus-men a literary champion to defend
their rights. A periodical journal called
The Whip takes up these functions, and
accepts its duties with as much gravity as
any other penny newspaper. Cabmen's wrongs
and omnibus grievances, conferences between
cab-owners and cab-drivers, public meetings of
whipsters to protest against wrongful legislation,
condemnations of magisterial decisions, sarcasms
about "Mayne force"—all are brought into
prominence. And it is a fact, which we may
hope the legislature will take to heart, that
the proprietors presented gratuitous copies of
Number Two to all the members of both Houses
of Parliament, in order that the noble and
honourable senators might know all about a
certain great meeting, which was held at a certain
public-house in Lambeth, on a certain evening.

The truth is, that Jehu, Jarvey, cabby, or call
him what we may, is suffering from too much