MINING REPORT.

Kumara Times, Issue 545, 26 June 1878, Page 2

MINING REPORT.

[Pbom: otfa Special Reporter.]

In your issue of the 18th Trist., a paragraph appears, wherein competent miners aresaid jtip given it as their opini-in, that the bit of a rush, on the flat behind Larrikins is likely to be a cimnecting c link between Kumara and ■ Gbldsbi trough. That account read at a distance would »e misleading, as there ds no more liklihood of it going tp Goldsborough,, than there is of it going to Givymouth. I have from time to time given my opinion of that • flat in my reports, and the greatest. difficulty that miners have, is in getting quit of the idea that it is a continuous lead. When they tried to carry out that idea they lost the run of it altogether, but when they commenced to treat it as a series of streaks of wash deposited in all imaginable courses by some river, they were more fortunate in getting on to gold. I have affirmed on two or three occasions, that it was Very likely that a great portion of the flat would be found to contain payable gold, as there is every appearance of a river.having been running at the foot of the high terrace that terminates the flat; and it must have made its way at different periods across the flat, before the present workings were deposited.

There has been increased activity dis* played for the last week, as several 0 shafts have bottomed on payable wash, averaging. from half a grain to.oue grain an ! a half to the dish, but I believe it was .reported in. Kumara as being a great, deal m ire. Unless parties adopt the best methods of getting and trying th.t w.tshdirt, these prospects are .very little good. I know . parties'on the

Kumara who have a difficulty of making £Z per week with 4dwts to the load; and I know other parties who never have less than £4 pev week when their stuff averages 2dwts to the load, the natural facilities being the same, only different methods adopted for securing the gold. In mentioning the new rush there is a difficulty as it has not got a name. Dick Minnihinnet was among the first to sink outside of the old workings, and I think it might be appropriately called Mignonette Flat.