THE KUMARA RUSH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 130, 20 September 1876, Page 3

THE KUMARA RUSH.

So much has been said and written i about this new rush, it would fee mere- repetition ott my part to come over the same subject,. but 1 wilt endeavour to go> a little out of the beaten track of regular correspendente la the Erst case a few words about the wocfeinga will n<st be arniaa to those coming here. Let them be who they- wtl, old miners <w »»w ehttta% they \ituißt ttoxtw prepared to find something j®. m'TYßay experience. All that has cow# writteßiwßotft the length oi? the lead and the amount of ground; available u perfectly true* People at a distance might aiujily be led astray by what is known as the shallow sinking on the other side of the break—it being nothing more or less* than, the depression in the ground between two' terraces, which was considered new ground at the time, but i» only a continuation of the lead, and will take mere time to get into than the claims on the north side, as tke tunit'efe will reqttireto be 2(30 feet longer. The lead takes a band away from the terrace on the banks of the Teremakatt ;. thence, leaving the shallow ground, it takes through another terrace running parallel withi the first. Sere the sinking gets- deeper, averaging soventy or eighty feet, according to the rise or fall of the ground. Cfold was struck night claims ahead of Che shallow ground on Saturday morning hist. The lead is over a mite in length, and averages three or four claims wide. Oold has been struck nbimt three-quarters of a mite farther ahead hi fourteen feet sinking ; bat as the weather was so bad 1 could not get on the ground to make inquiries for myself as to the nature of the find, but 1 believe it to be a continuation of the same lead, it beingr in a direct line from the other gold struck last. It may be a bit of information that the lead runs due SvS'.E. and N.JP..W., The want of water is the great drawback to this part of the country, but frorti what I hear that difficulty will bs removed by the time the majority are Watty for it. From the nature ol! the ground the workings will bo both difficult and expensive, the great depth of wash in some instances—front thirty to forty feet —and from the heavy boulders, as much to four op Evb tons, it will be seen; that money wilt be required to get gold, and unless a man has as much of the needful M wilt keep him from two to* four months, he had better not think of starting In so fiw? as the ground is known at present. I have no doubt shallow ground will be found further ahead, but until then there ia no room for a poor man in the fullest Sense of the word. There is very little demand for labor as yet, but when the tunnels are in and water on the ground the demand will be something great, but that will be from to live months bonce.—C'orrtspondent (truij River Anjnes.