MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3272, 15 August 1873, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Waikaia. —Six ounces to the shovel! After an absence of several weeks, such was the news that greeted me on my return to this place, Duncan and party, of the Anglo-Swiss claim, have taken another paddock off, which is equal to their last. On Thursday last, they had sixtynine ounces in hand, and two class’ washing to come from the same paddock. The party have now about six or eight' paddocks walled off, which doubtless will average lOOozs. to the paddock. Probably they may not be .able to take above one or two paddocks more off uefore the spring floods set in, but they will have a good start for the next season, in consequence of having a number of paddocks walled off. The prospects in this claim are really splendid. The run is now defined : it is a sort of gutter, and I think the croakers who have been crying out that it was a patch, will have to acknowledge they were mistaken. No other claim on the river, as yet, is on the deep ground, but all parties are working away with spirit, and there can he no doubt of their ultimate success. The Whitecomb and surrounding gullies are producing a fair average yield of gold, and all parties are apparently satisfied. —Tuapeka Times. Tuapeka. —The present season has not been a favorable one to miners on the hanks of the Molyncux. Ever since the flood in May, the river has been very fickle, rising and falling at short intervals, just allowing the claimhohlers time to get ready for a short start, and then flooding them out again. At Manuherikin, the wagesmen in Coleman’s claim struck for L 4 per week when they saw the proprietor could not dispense with their services—an example we do not hope to see followed, as it would he very disastrous at this season of the year. We arc credibly informed that they were a set of men who preferred loafing to the long-handled shovel ; others have since been found to take their places, and they will find it a hard matter to again get employment in the Manuherikia district.—During the past month, crushing by the Gabriels Gully Quartz Mining Company has been carried on irregularly. Forty tons of stone from Evans and party’s claim (Clark’s paddock) gave 4dwts. per ton ; another lot of 70 tons gave only 2dwfcs. per ton. The last crushing of quartz from the Company’s claim averaged Bdwts. per ton. During the last fortnight the whole of the stuff taken from the winze has been crushed, and averaged about 3dwts. to the ton. The gold retorted for the month was 50ozs. Ifidwts., including Evans and Co.’s parcel . Ibid.