NOKOMAI

Dunstan Times, Issue 513, 16 February 1872, Page 2

NOKOMAI

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) There is seldom anything to write about from here interesting to your district, but, as several of your members are oldNokomai men 1 let you know that at last a company has been started with every piospect of success, to work the well known Nokomai Flat. It is to consist of two thousand shaves of 10s each, divided into eight thousand scrip, of two shillings and sixpence each, and a very large number of shares have been taken up in the district, whilst Messrs. Conelann aud Whitaker have proceeded to canvass Kingston and Queenstown, where they expect to sell a great quantity. Invercargill and the Southland district generally are looked to to take up any balance. The long continued drought has severely interfered with all mining except the Cieek claims which are held ■ ntirely by he Chinese who still continue to do well and are very numerous. The cr <-k itself is lower than it was ever known to be before, and the gardens are suffering dreadfully from the want of water. ■ An old abandoned shaft—depth about seventy feet, which the original proprietor* gave up, being unable to combat the water, was lately taken up by Shaw and party, and owing, in a great measure, to the excessive dryness of the season, they have succeeded in overcoming it, and found the drives in good order; they have obtained a fair prospect, and richly deserve success for their enterprise. It is situated at the foot of the terraces just opposite the township cn ground known asJCameron’s Gully. We hear of a proposed Company to convey’the'water from the Nevis Creek to the top of the Carriek Ranges, and suppose it must be got up in your district or Cromwell. It ought to succeed—considering how rich some of the reefs are. Our Christmas and New Year's Day sport* passed off very successfully, as also the examination of the School pupils, the Schoolmaster, Mr. Lapham, receiving high eulogistic ev.comiunis from the examiners as to the progress of the pupils and his system of teaching. We view with no satisfaction the contemplated change of Wardens. When a Warden has been in charge of a district for years, he knows a great deal of the equity of the cases brought before him and the locus standi of the parties to a suit, all of which is of importance. At any rate, wo do not want to change our’*.