KAWARUA MINTO MEMORANDA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 515, 1 March 1872, Page 2

KAWARUA MINTO MEMORANDA.

(Bv a Miner.)

The terraces and hunks of the kawaraty between its junction with the Arrow' and the Nevis Ferry, are con mantling act in siderahle amount of attention, and scarcely a week passes hut fresh parties uie selling in to work, the result of whose lahois, in many instances, being liyond the mist sanguine exp.ctatioi s. The heaviest nugget ■ f the | Ure me f al I ever heard of as being found in this locality was brought to lipht a few day* back. The “welcome stranger” weighed over five ounces, and was in com; pany with a good few ounces of gold of smaller size. This lucky wind-full happened to a party who, f or a long time, had been out of luck. Dredging on the Kawaran, so far, has not proved a paying .speculation. The dredge built just above the Natural Bridge has failed to strike anything, although a great extent of giound has been gene ever. Ihe prospects obtained by Henderson and Co., the party who built it were something above the average; hut the ground, on being tested, turned out a comple'e dufferThe river, just now being high, tie boat is hauled out of the stream ; hut it is intended to prospect exery available spot before all hope is given up. The discovery and opening up, on the Garrick Range, of the quartz reefs, - eins, leaders, 1 lows, or by whatever name it may suit the particular fancy of p-opleto call them, ha* completely excluded from public attontii n the alluvial working s that, for so many years have leen woiked in their neighborhood. It is an admitted maxim that “New brooms sweep clean ;” hut time will show whether, in discarding so t s ful a servant as the alluvial deposits) rove d 1h- nisei vis to he. justice was fairly meted out. Every one has a fancy, and I have mine, which is, that after the host rf little pnfieis already-, and to he erected fur ch rushing purposes, have steamed, s-eezed, and squeaked their last, the:e will still he alluvial mines, and miners to work them. Our Am-rican friend, Mr. Wizard Oil Werioa, at Kidd’s Hid! tie other night said, the proof of the piulden was in chaw'ng the 1 ag string, Wall IT left, it thar and advise the quartzocracy to wire in.