MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4165, 3 July 1876, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From our Exchanges.)

A Tuapeka Mouth miner writes under date 17th June:—l am given to understand that application has been made to have the auriferous land in the vicinity of Tuapeka Mouth put up to auction. If such an applition were entertained, and carried into execution in spite of all that has been notified to the Warden by the different miners from time to time, the oonsequenoe will be that many poor men will be debarred from getting a livelihood, as there are in the same land many millions of loads of wash dirt, which if worked systematically would pay remarkably well. If some of the old Victorian puddlors dropped across such ground they would send the gold it contains to the mint in a very short time. 1 refrain from saying more, as our Warden is quite aware of the nature of the ground, and having prospected it myself I can vouch far ite auriferous oharaater,

A largo party of Chinamen are mining on Mr Murray's property at the Woolshed, ap. parently with good results, as it is said they are paying the owner of the property 5s in

the pound royalty for the privilege of work tag the ground, with the proviso that they fill in the holes and restore the ground as far as* possible to its origiual state. Several other claims are at work in the neighborhood, and the Woolshed diggings, like other parts of the goldfields, are showing signs of vitality now that other work is scirce. Notwithstanding the very bright prospects which the late striking of golden stone has opened up to shareholders in the Nugget and Cornish quartz claim-a mine which Mr Ulrich reported as likely to prove the best iu the Province —diiliculties as to ways and means have arisen. The indebtedness of the compauy is small, and a general meeting is called to decide as to what steps to take for raising money to> pat the machinery and tramway in working order. The Chinese miners working in the neighborhood of the Woolshed and Glenorc suffered considerably by the late floods, their machinery having been washed away or damaged, and their workings destroyed. The bursting of Harding and party's dam at Nugget Cully caused a great rash of water down the creek, and fears were entertained W the safety of a number of Chinamen who were left on an island between the branches of the creek. The water receded as rapidly as it rose, however, and happily there was no less of human life.

The heavy Hood last week caused the Table Hill Company's dam to burst. This has necessitated the stoppage of work at the Bruce Quartz Company s claim, and it will be impossible to resume operations for a week or ten days. The race was damaged in several places.