REVIVAL OF THE LARRIKINS.

Kumara Times, Issue 916, 6 September 1879, Page 2

REVIVAL OF THE LARRIKINS.

Many of our miners think the golden days; of the Larrikins have past and gone, doubt, tothe great amount,of-prospecting done by them to the east and south of that once famous lead in trying to trace it to its source, but, being unsuccessful in their search, prospecting in that direction has for soine, time -past been neglected. Others profiting, by the experience of their neighbor’s work to . the eastward, hare of, late been prospecting .more to the westward, and have succeeded in finding a patchy run of payable ground 20 feet below the surface. mdre than pne-half of the shafts at present bottomed, can be considered payable, more iriiportahce is attached to this disdovpry than most people would at first, imagine, for the simple reason that it to bear out the supposition pf a few that the gold, instead of coming ftorii the soUtlveßst Rs many at first suppposed, comes from a more westerly direction. Tkis supposition is founded on the' fact that after leaving the neighborhood of the Original prospecting dldim hear Kumara nd bed-rock has been • discovered' until it shows itself in the low range td the west and in the .immediate vicinity of the Scandinavian Lead. This -lead being in the same line, and on the same level as this last discovery proves the one to be the cou tin nation of the other, and as both are on a higher level than, and running parallel to, the main lead would give one the impression , that the shallow ground hugging the bed-rock is the remains of some ancient diluvial river bed that has been intercepted and partly undermined and again filled in by the action and re-action of thd waters of the Teremakau, thus accouniug for the loss of the lead and the deep and shallow runs of ground running parallel to each other. However tliis rriay be it is to be hoped that as all previous attempts. to trace the Larrikin’s have proved fruitless that this attempt to trace it through the break in the range to the westward will be a successful one, and thus be the means of bringing back the good old •*% . S. B. H.