MINING REPORT.

Kumara Times, Issue 593, 22 August 1878, Page 2

MINING REPORT.

[From our Special Mining Rbporeer.]

Mignonette Flat, the. lasbppened ofthia digging, attracts the greater attention just now, and it is veiy enentiraging to hear the hopeful way; that: the claim holders there speak, of their prospects. A pretty considerable population has been attracted there already, and is increasing every day ; and front all that I can learn it fairttf bftthe most productive piirffc 4 of the mara Goldfield. In sortie iustancek'Wo levels have been proved to exist which will make it more, pernianent, and ; .the gold turns but well in the. yyashipgi as several parties have had nearly double what they expected from a few loads. The Government race, I believey is going to be itia liigh time something wag done f .as som©’ ;vpaddocks are already full, ready fqr wishing- A few are bbLthe majority of new comers set iii toiimfc at once, which & the-most sensible!; rain, as the claims, are -so, large (with : l{)offc per man) that, there is not much* sstisfaction got from your |ijaft. This flat haslcome in very g*ioft number who were lately wbrfcld out, and, in some cases they havegotbA to good gold without much, exptense. Judging from : the -rbdijrns that have been got from the bottom of shafts Wd the general prospects with the dish, I would expect a large number of the claims now open to pay j£l per day, and would not be surprised if .some payed as much as £lO per still there will be plenty-.qf- wages ground. -

I mentioned some something ouchtto be doneiq-thft&ay of a fcpick, but I- ithC powfers that be are waiting till the place i&half worked out. before, they make oneif- :It would cost very little to* jnitke .±et good ti’ack to where it would ireqaioedito terminate j and the distance *La?jsot modi, as 20 chains would requirements. . There is a good deal of "mysterhAis talk going on .aboht New Guinea, ~ a,nd it is said that a number .ojf leaving Reefton one getting a private letter. Eiiggera.always prefer private information ,tp , t,he general news that is supplied;,, by the Press; but before taking such: a step as going to New Guinea, they should make sure that the private letters are genuine. The fever has spread to the Kumam and already some are on their way to the new El Dorado, to prove whether Sir Roderick Murchison' was correct in his opinion of the productiveness of New Guinea as a gold-bearing country, New Zealand diggers should remember that the change of climate is too ..great to be undertaken all at once, for the bare chance of getting gold. Out; pf about a score of men that I knew ..Ww went to the Palmer, half a dozen, found a grain there, and some of, the,others a.ie still walking about to save expense.* And New Guinea is not likely to be;any ; better.