WAITE'S PAKIHI.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 259, 10 September 1867, Page 3

WAITE'S PAKIHI.

Writiug from Addison's Flat, the correspondent of the "Brighton Times'' says : — The weather is verj r bad and has been the cause of much delay in mining operations, but the miners are still persevering, and we hope to be able to report an improvement in our next. The rush behind the Black Ball Hotel was a failure, but the prospectors are preparing to open out their claim, as also are seven or eight other claims adjoining. No shafts have been bot- | tomed on Addison's last new rush, and a week or two must elapso before this takes place. Beyond the river in what was considered duffer ground, and at one time abandoned, a party have struck splendid prospects, that are re--1 ported to eclipse any yet known ov this coast. As to the amount/1 am dumb, not having any reliable information, but as to the number sinking, and that night and da) r, j can vouch for 40 claims in length, and three in breadth. A township is' being formed here, and ■seems to alarm these already settled in the second, as they are going the right way about it, laying out the streets the required width according to the regulations, viz, 45ft wide, and being in a superior part of the ground, a dryer 1 spot, &c, they have no cause to fear. A party sinking a paddock near the first township washed a number of prospects from one part of their claim and in each case obtained half a pennyweight to the shovel. A share in this claim that the other day the sum of LSO was offered for could not be got for L2OO. Corbett and party on the south end are stacking very rich dirt, not being able to wash yet, b\it all goes 3 grs to the shovel, and at times more. Pui'cell and party are doing the same ; as soon as they and the parties round them commence washing the returns from the Buller will assume very fair proportions. At the Caladonian Lead things are going on smoothly, and profitable work 1 is the order of the day. At Fairdown many are doing well, though the Mokihinui rush has very greatly unsettled the miners iv that locality.