MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 398, 3 December 1869, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

We understand that a conference of the Wardens of the Gol Hid's will he hel lat Clyde, on the 13th inst., for the purpose ‘of considering such amendments as are necessary in the Goldfields' Regulations. Several shares in the Bendigo Cully have changed hands lately. The prices realised have, as a rule, been satisfactory, but did not reach tha enormous sums expected for them by some of the very sanguine shareholders.

A sample of about 1 Sib. of stone taken from Barry and party’s claim, on the Aurora Reef, Bendigo Gully, was lately tested. It yielded half a pennyweight of gold ; but, owing to the very incomplete manner in which it was manipulated, it is more than probable that some was lost. A new reef is reported to have been struck in Ben igo Gully, a short distance from Cnleiough’s claim, by Richmond and party, who have applied for a prospecting claim.

Ta? miners at tin N ivis are apparently doing well. Tunnelling is being carried on to a considerable extent, with profitable results There are a number of Chinese on the ground, who seem well satisfied with their earnings. The quartz-mining lease and plant of the Nugget Company, on the Upper Shotover, was sold by auction on the 27th ult., on •account of a ■ issolution of partnership. Mr. Koskruge was the purchaser, for the •sum of £6OO

Some four or five years ago a party of miners working on the Serpentine discovered •a quartz reef. At that time reefing was 'considered valueless in this province, and, after sinking a shaft, the party abandoned it. The recent discoveries, however, have induce.l others to test, the value of the dis cowry. Mr. Hastie and party proceeded with tho work, an I t’ eir enterprise has been rewarded by the discovery of a payable reef We have been shown some sixty or eighty pounds weight of stone taken from the claim, in which gold was generally diffused throughout. Claims have been taken up on each side, and should they prove successful there is no doubt lm ! that many more w ill try their fortunes in that locality. It is understood that a trial •crushing of stone from Hastie’s claim wilj shorty bo ma e, when we shall be in a position to give a more positive opinion as to the value of the reef. In the meantime it woul I be well to wait until something more definite is known ere any great number of miners proceed there.

Quartz-mining is rapidly progressing in Butcher’s Gully. Six claims are now at work night and day, namely, those known ■as M ‘Donnell’s, Jones’s, Stan brooks’, Paget’s, Halliday’s, an I Evans’s. Four of these parties have applied tor tenders for sinking shafts to a depth of from sixty to eighty feet. This reef has been known to many for the past four years, and we he lieve it was first discovered by the lain Mr ■Jones. The road from the Manuherikia Punt sadly requires the attention of the Government.

At Conroy’s Iverson and party are at work night an. day. The shaft is now (’own something over sixty feet and the stone making. The same party have nearly ■completed i heir tail race, cut, for the greater part, through solid rook, ami proving most unmistakably the energy, perseverance, and enterprise of tho miners,

The Prince of Wales Claim (Chappie’s) is in full woik, and, judging from indications shown, are likely to strike the reef very shortly,

The Marmhojikia Sluicing Company have been steadily at work. We are informed it is not-'■heir intention to wash-up till about Ch.*finas, when favorable results are confidoiWy anticipated.

The Ovens Company are in full work, with day and night shifts, and the shareholders appear to be perfectly satisfied with their returns.

BlackneU’s and the other parties at work on Low’s flat are progressing steadily and seem to be making a fair tiling of it.

Two applications for certificates for the construction of water-races were granted at the last sitting of the Warden’s Court at Cromwell, namely to Rock and party, Smith’s Gully, and Ah Cting and party, Cromwell.

The reports from Black’s, Drybread, Devonshire, Tinker’s Welshman’s. Dunstan Creek, and in fact fbe whole of that large district, are of a favorable nature. A new race company, to be called the Independent, has been lately formed at,the Maerewhwma, Tho company propose to

cut a race sortie ten miles in length from one of the tributaries of that river, aud capable of carrying fifteen heads of water.

In the Mount Ida district sinking is being prosecuted with good results, though the miners could well do with a more ample supply of water. Hewson and party have been granted an extended claim of four acres in Pipe-clav Gully. The Canterbury Government have offered a reward of £SOO for the discovery of a pay. able goldfield i’ll that province.

The “ Grey Eiver Argus” informs us that rich alluvial gold has been struck near Moonlight Creek. Barbour and party, who have been workirtg there sortie time, lately bottomed a paddock, nine feet by six, and took one hundred and eight ounces of gold off the bottom. One piece weighed thirtyfive and another thirty-nine ounces,