CARDRONA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 197, 19 August 1873, Page 6

CARDRONA.

(FROM-OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) August 13, 1873" Mining matters on the Cardrona are slightly improved since last report. The redoubtable Tim Cotter holds a kind of rod of terror over two or three of the claims. The parties are quietly awaiting the decision of the Government in the matter ; so of these little can be expected, as work is almost stopped with them. In the Union Company, affairs look more prosperous, as they are putting in an incline, by which the work is prosecuted by means of trucks on the latest improved principle. Handsome dividends may therefore be expected shortly from this company. The Young Pirate is still paying fairly as of old. On the upper end of the Deep Lead, a party which set in some live or six weeks back to try the All Nations claim have succeeded in tracing the lost lead, and the claim is now paying handsome wages. Other parties up the creek are more or less stopped from work by King Frost. The sluicing claims at Branch Creek are also doing very little at present, owing to the severity of the weather. There, is every prospect of the mile-claim, — viz., Mackin, Bond, and Co.'s, going ahead now, as the promoters intend shortly throwing it into a Joint Stock Company. No difficulty will be experienced in getting it up, as | the universal opinion is that it is a likely I place for gold, and the promoters have secured a large slice of ground. If any measure of success attend the venture, it will be the means of doing much good not alone to ' the Cardrona, but to the whole of the dis-

trict, as there are already several private par-' ties made up with tho view of taking claims up in other portions of tho Cardrona Valley. In regard to politics, there is some little stir amongst us just now. Our late representative in the. General Assembly having resigned, and left us altogether in the lurch so far as the present session is concerned, there : is to be a new election. Four gentlemen are in the field at present,—Messrs Pyke, Barton, Manders, and Innes. Of these, the last named is the only one who up to date has addressed us ; and he was unanimously voted a fit and proper person to represent us in the General Assembly. To-morrow we are to be addressed by Messrs Pyke and Barton. There is to be an Amateur Concert'and Ball on Tuesday night, the 19fch aid of the Dunstan District Hospital. There is every prospect of the affair being a most successful one, as the singers are all practising very strenuously and energetically.