THE LAKES

Dunstan Times, Issue 266, 31 May 1867, Page 2

THE LAKES

(FROM A.CORKVSroSCEST.) Queciistown, 80th May, | Winter has now set in in earnest, and rKintr Frost holds dominant sw.iv over Itlie land, the days are sunny and warm, gbutat night, it freezes excessively hard, 'and should the same weather only continiuc a week loinjci - , all asrricnltur.il operatio q. i sous connected with the turning up of land imrist 1)0 suspended. U The introduction of Stock iuto tho district is taking place at a great rate, and Siotwo or three years from now, there Sinust be a considerable fall in .the price of BBntchcrs' meat. a . •. " • -1 .-•■■., | In mining operations, .there is co:sidearable, more activity, the supply of water ■has largely increased, r.nd there are but

few claims idle on account of a lack of the necessary liquid element Quartz mining at Skippers is gradually assuming a more healthy tone, and the Value of that' inter est is now proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, the Scandinavian Company have three of their new so.id cast iron stamp boxes fixed, and are crushing without intermission j. with three batteries of five heads each, if the quality of the stone should equal the expectations of the most sanguine shareholdars, al test trial made last week of about seventy tons, realised a'handsome [cake of amalgamated gold weighing 183 dunces. Mr Richd. Creeth the manager of the Company, has been up to inspect the works, and reports matters to be highly satisfactory, Iris statement is amply borne out by private testimony. Perry, Watt and Co. (The British and* American) have struck the reef, and deem the stone sufficiently payable as to induce them to set to work again in earnest. Southberg and Co are busy crashing, and will have a cake gold ready for transmission by the next escort, this partyaro down some 240 feet inj.be reef, and find it not only as perinanei.t as ever, but containing an increased quantity of the precious metal. The Prince of Wales Company made a triarcriishing, and the result was fifteen pennj weights to the to",''a further trial will be made, after which they will proceed to erect machinery. Alluvial mining, both on the,' Shotover and Skipper's is looking up, some capital beach workings, thanks to the low state of the river are in full swing, while high above the reach of flouds in the terraces between Maori Point and Stoi y Creek a defined lead of gold has been proved to exist; a number of leases have been applied for, and there is great activity. At the Arrow, things are rather dull—• the Criterion Company is in the market, ' the Bank' having come down upon the 1 property ; with a good company of working men, this claim could be made to pay extreme'y well. A sawing mill is to start 1 shortly?at Hayes Creek, Messrs Butel have all the necessary machinery ready on the ' j ground, and the Arrow will soon be supplied with first class timber at extremely " moderate rates. Messrs Edwards and Owens the co . j tractors for the Cromwell and Queenstcwn ' I Road expect to have their work completed 'in about a for I night the building of the J I punt for the Arrow crossing of the Kawif--1 ; rau, is all that wili be requisite to open up j dray traffic between the Wakatip and 1 ! Duns an.