WARDEN'S REPORT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2637, 31 July 1871, Page 2

WARDEN'S REPORT.

Mr Warden Simpson (Lawrence district) writing under date the 25th inst, says It will be observed that the amount of gold escorted exceeds that of the previous quarter by about 2,300 oz , and that of the corresponding quarter last year by 1,200 oz. I am rather surprised at that fact, as, up to the end of June, the season hud been so very dry, comparatively speaking, and in parts of the

district the water supply as email ns it was in the middle of summer. During the quartei I have granted two prospecting claims on quartz reefs discovered in the district pin on 'the Beaumont River, near the Devil’t Backbone; the other on the Lammcrlav Creek, Waipori, about four miles above the township. No trial crushing has been made of the stone from either of these reefs; therefore very little*idca of their yield can bo formed, but gold is visible in the stone. The only other discovery that has been made during the quarter, is the existence of gold in payable quantities on the top of the Conical Hill, opposite Havelock township, known as the Big Hill. I hero was a slight rush to the ground at first, but a little prospecting brought out the rather remaikable fact, that the wash only existed on the verytop of the hill, which is less than 10 acres in extent, and seems to be a sort of basin, so far as known, about 25 feet deep, and quite isolated. The top of the hill is about BGO feet above the level of the sea, and lays in a direct lino between the workings at Blue Spur and the workings at Manuka Creek, and which line would cross the Saddle, when east of the Round Hill. The great impediment to the working of this ground, will be the difficulty of petting a supply of water Jjicrh enough. What drew attention to this hifl was the similarity of the conglomerate rocks on the surface to those on the hills in the neighborhood of Manuka Creek, where the ground has turned out so well.