BIG BAY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1398, 4 November 1886, Page 3

BIG BAY.

Mr Thomas Whit»ker, of the Empire Hotel, Invercargill, has received a letter fiom Mt'H. Hnhber. and dated, Big Bay, October, 19 The following arc extracts from the leiter :—“ ’he most of the men are getting a liitle gold The thought of clearing out has never entered our party s heads. The old miners are in good hopes of a payable goldfield in this locality.” Tm’s party alto ask Mr Wh »:tr to sind round a supply of stores. We are informed that all the Association’s men are hard at work, and that none of them have left the locality. The Wakatip Mall says that some halfdozen men who have lately come over from Big Bay are giving the place an awful character. la fact, to quote dggers’ parlance, the country is ‘'a duffer,” and whatever gold (here was was taken out years ago by 500 miners ! The latt-r absurd statement is quile sufficient test of the veracity of these crokers, who could scarcely have had time to put up their tent and look about since the Hinsmoa landed them hardly a month ago. However, it is satisfactory to believe that the majority of the extltrera are of the righstuff—at least judging bv the fo lowing rommunioati n, dated 16th Rst, wh’ch we have received from a corre p jndent at Big Bay. He says:—" There is very little to report as the weather has bean rather unfavorable lat'Ty for prospecting, especially in a bush country like this. A good many have set in to work on the beach whilst several parties have commenced prospecting a bait of deep ground which lies between the old workings and the terrace, but none have bottomed as yet. Moat of the men here are favorably impressed with the district, as out of nearly 2003 men landed f'om the 8 9. Hinem ’a only nine have left, and these ought never to have come, as they were not the right sort of men for prospecting.”