LARRIKIN'S.

Kumara Times, Issue 926, 18 September 1879, Page 2

LARRIKIN'S.

Ifc appears the remarks made by me in the Kumara Times of the Oth inst., that a patchy run of payable ground, supposed to be the continuation of the lost Larrikin lead had been discovered more to the westward of where the' lead was previously supposed to have gone, has found but little credence with " Our Special Mining Reporter," for the simple reason that "nobody" he has " spoken to knows' anything, about the lead" mentioned by me.' As this remark of " Our Special" would irr itself give the readers of this' article to' understand that mv statements were ihcoir,ect,'l am glad to see that lie has, in his report, unwittingly home me.oiifr' in my assertion by saying that ."There were previously little patches got about a great part of the ground, but' the principal cause of its being taken up now is the miners find that they can' make smaller prospects pay, &c." ThisThis contradictory statement of"Oiir Special" is certainly relieving to one whose only object in' giving publicity to the discovery was that the many strangers lately brought into our midst through the excitement oh the opposite side of the Terremakan River might turn their attention to a place' ttiafc, at the timeof my writing, bid fair to shortly become a genuine rash of no small pre-' tensions. As " Our Special," and " nirbody" he has •' spoken to" do not ap-' pear to know anything about the matter in hand, I will, for his information, tell him that a few days previous to my writing what to him appears"Vfco be an obnoxious article, I counted ovW 30 men on the ground, and that a? friend of mine having bottomed got a thin layer of dirt that prospected onehalf dwt. to the dish, and, as others\were at the same time getting prospects that were considered more or less x>ay--

able, I took upon myself the responsibility of giving it pnblicitv, and at thf* Same time of expressing a liope that, rx all previous attempts to trace the gold had proved fruitless, this last attempt might prove a successful one. That there is a continuation cf the Larrikin lead no one can doubt, and, although the number of men has greatly diminished since Writing the article that has caused this second production, the day, 1 hope, is not far distant when the remaining few will he able to report the discovery d.f a lead the working of which would again enliven the -whole district. S. B. H.