MINING REPORT.

Kumara Times, Issue 623, 26 September 1878, Page 2

MINING REPORT.

[From our Sprcttat. ' ■ Since my last things haye a '.-V* more healthy aspect oir '• Flat. One short flame has now ' beMix finished, aijd another of" ' " a length has been brought to a. poiijt where it will branch 6ft to- t - f claims, and by the of \the some of the claims will be; in a ppSifcibn V to wash up. The the timber, and "Mr Cow work, so thaf foe parties would be benefited. ' ci fluipe .was completed, ans from the part that is dohei' everything matnii to be put together in a workmanlike V ’ i manner. There have shafts.” • bottom on payable:lgpld: lately; last, known as the “ Templars’ .Qlaiiji ■ (from, two of the leading I the fraternity being in itafter sinking two shafts and.getting a little gold* -T v*" in each, but not considered payable,^ ithey: sunk a third, and bottomed bn ; 1 payable g01d... In' the course, of ;a,’lpw* a . weeks more, the Wturn .irom of the field ought- to be something con* ,"■**’ siderable. : r; ' -i - V 1 I am glad to see that the Prospecting - ‘ Association Gomraittee* intend ing the wishes of the miners as a body !1J before extending their efforts in', way of prospecting,' It is a great pity ‘ 1 “ that the Government, should only, see' , their way to assist prospecting* where there is the least likelihood of it Being ’ c successful. Where a bretik occurs in a belt of golden country”, it is' suiely the best plan to connect the chain as soon. . as possible." At the first of thei fash to i J " the Kumara there was a break-in the lead, and it was some time before the gold was traded : miners had adopted U - : . plan and "rushed -atway -aheacl -three oh--four miles, they* might ” c searching till now -befdrb- they' fbflnd dt.7, £ It is t£be hoped the.. meetiugf wfill not i>v - overlook the imporfancepf deeper i&nslsi'. If all the ground en tire obasfe Fad beett abandoned when the first letekiwere * worked out, the one half of the gold - would never have been got--on aVgood)T many places, notably at I .1” it would be a great waste of time

Money to'go away .the dfc* tance by the, Gp.vernraeijt, simply because they' offer assistanogif you do so. If our case was desperate, and we did not know of any.-. likelyb place to pro* spect, it would - be, while thece/W so much* likely country dose at hand that has been. prospected, it would be absurd to go ' and bury ourselves,inthe simply because the Government would give ns a few for so. There is a problem to'be solved ahead of the Larrikins,* whethec/thelead makesagain in the Bamkpburse oi* whether it lakes' a slew to the. gaAWlird br westward, and the,EroJpe€tidg solve’ it at c6'mpa^yp|]^little cost. '