NOTES FROM THE NEVIS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 51, 2 November 1870, Page 5

NOTES FROM THE NEVIS.

{From our own Correspondent.)

October 25, 1370.

Mining matters remain much in the same state us usual ; those who get b old, spoil,l it; those who do not, get into debt —it tin;v caa. Several s rangers have passed no and down the diggings, hut none have set into work ; they were only visitors. One party hj ivo had a large pump and wheel from Clyde—-one of the largest wheels that has iieen sent up to the Nevis. When extra expenses are incurred like the cost of this gear, it is a sign that the ground is payable. A small patch of nuggets (the largest about 30z.) has been found near the surface on one of the deep claims ; and tnHmg as. the find is, it causes quite an excitement.

1 think your townspeople are very dull iu business mutters, for they might as welhavy some of the trade of this place as let it piss their doors. Pumps, wheels, wheelbarrows, timber, and, in fact, all mining requisites have to he brought, at a great cost, from places more distant than Cromwell, oec.iii.se there is no carter between the Nevis and your town. The road is good, and the present rate of carriage, ,£d to £G per ton, ought to induce some one to put a. dray on. for the distance ([ am told) is only seventeen miles.

I see most of your correspondents agree that the Chinese element is not desirable on the Guldlields. The miners have the remedy in their own hands : let them hold meetings on every held, and pass a vote fm or against the further introduction of Chinese into Otago. The votes of the meeting could be collected and sent to some central committee, and if unfavourable to the present system, let the Superintendent be memorialised at once. None but miners should have any voire in the question, and unless the question is taken up "it.hout delay, it will be useless for the miners to complain when their occupation is. gone. The miners settled the question of 41 Provincial- or General Government Cold fields Management and if they bestir themselves, they are quite as capable of judging and deciding whether the Chinese shall be allowed to mcm.poUse tile whole of the (Told fields of Otago.