OTAGO.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1142, 26 March 1872, Page 3

OTAGO.

The Otago up-country papers furnish the following items : — Some parties are doing well on the Waikaia— one especially known as Boyle and party are said to be averaging from L3O to L4O a week. Before they started their present claim they had been bringing up s tail-race in the Waikaia, but haye since found better gold on the banks of the river than they expected. The cruehing of 108 tons of stone from the (For continuation of JSewa see 4th Page.)

Caledonian claim was finished at ijde' Standard battery on Wednesday hust, with a result of 470z of gold— showing an average of 9Jdwt to the ton. A trial crushing of 12 tons from the Duke of Cumberland claim was put through the Standard battery last Thursday, and gave the splendid result of 450z, representing an average of 3oz 15dwt per ton. t While on his official monthly visit to the Nevis on the llth instant, Mr B. R. Baird, Receiver of Revenue, was credibly informed that a nugget weighing 220z had been found in that locality one day last week. It was taken out of the same claim (Green and party's, formerly M'Donald and party) as the I7oz piece found some months ago, and within a couple of feet of the same Bpot. A numn umber of small nuggets weighing from \oz to IJox, were also found in close proximity to the larger one. The claim is situated in the bed of the Nevis River, between three and four miles above the township. A correspondent from Skipper'B Point, Upper Shotover, reports that a party "i men in Finney's old claim took out nine pounds weight of gold for one week's work. The same correspondent says that there are some really good claims on the Shotover River. The Chinese who were recently attracted to Shag Valley by the reports of the discovery of payable gold there, have returned in disgust to Dunedin, not having found sufficient to find them in rice. A number of them intend to proceed to Tuapeka.