MINING REPORT.

Kumara Times, Issue 903, 22 August 1879, Page 2

MINING REPORT.

[From our Special 'Mining Reporter.] I have noticed within the last fewweeks that things look more lively at the extreme end of the lead at Larrikins. A party lately applied for a double area of ground, and whether they had got anything good, or whether the miners in the locality thought they ought to have something good, I know not,- but at any rate there was any amount of objection and the Warden refused to graut the double area. Since that application was first made two claims in the vicinity have got on to pretty fair gold. One of them washed twenty four load* on Monday last and got 6£ozs which was a pretty fair return considering that the ground is shallow and easily worked. Quite a number of other claim's have been taken up, and although the locality has been a good deal sunk" on before, it is quite possible some of them will get payable gold. An occasional inebriate used to be considered a sign that gold was getting, and on my visits to Larrikins lately, I have discovered that such a thing is to be found there. It is to be hoped that before the present spurt' subsides something permanaht will be traced into the great unknown beyond the present workings. It .is to be' hoped that the Wardens communication to the Minister of Public Works will be productive of some good, as there are many places where races cross the track, that the wonder is that more children have not been drowned. At the upper end of all enclosed boxes there should be gratings put in as there 13 some chance of children being seei J but if they get into an enclosed box they are likely to get drowned before being seen. It is a great pity, nbw that were on the eve of a general election, that we could not get a really representative man to send to the House. There are plenty of .miners quite as intelligent as the general run- of the members, and to have a mining community properly represented it requires a practical miner to do it, as there is no subject oar legislature is more ignorant of than mining. When working men offer themselves as candidates they are generally treated with suspicion by their own class, and till once we get educated beyond that pitch we can, never hope to have justice done us.