MINING REPORT.

Kumara Times, Issue 189, 12 May 1877, Page 2

MINING REPORT.

The heavy rain in the early part of this week has somewhat retarded the preving of the ground at Murphy's Rush on* the other side of the Tereraakau. However, since our last report several claims have bottomed, with the. result in Bome instances oi" duffering," . and in two instances of finding, gold . with fair prospects. Oh the tract from the punt, and a little behind the puntman's house, between the< Rush and-the • river a party has been working for some •■ time, and are now on gold, the prospect giving eight grains to the dish. The shaft goes through two layers of sand which necessitates timberingOn the old workings several paddocks have washed up and many more - ares washing. Not a few are in process of being filled. The proceeds of, the . > washings' which have been completed-,.: are fully up to the average. Besides thebad weather, Jaowexe$ f there. - . was another reason which prevented the New Rush being properly worked 1 week. . What we hare heard styled ".AMonday's rush," took place on the 7th, which took hundreds of men • a wild*' goose chase' to the neighlxrarhood of , Houlihan's Junction Hotel, on the supposition that "nine ounces had been got off the bottom" of a claim, on a terrace there. The fact of, several men having left. Kumajda rv wfth;.theh;; swags, at an early hour on Monday; appears to have given rise.to the repojt.. It was furnished to us by several parties, totally unconnected with each ojheiy whose good faith we had notfhe slightest reason to doubt. In our issue of the same evening we recorded the reportonly as a report—simply because it was an item of the news of the day. We by no means vouched for its accuracy, and should be sorry to suppose-that any miners could have beeft'misled by our account of what was really the fact, vii, that there was much excitement, and a considerable rush. We have always been careful to be most guarded in Our reports of the prospect of this goldfield, as we hold that any exaajgera-. tion can only prove 'in the long run injurious to the best interests of Kuinara. We think it right to say this much because we have heard it stated that' some have blamed us for saying,'more than the facts warranted. We: shall always be happy to receive information from our friends, as to the from the mines, and have no misgiving that the truth will prove the most satisfactory news to the great majority of our readers. _ —.