THE HIGHLAY DIGGINGS.
Yesterday, Dr. Hector returned from a tour he has made to the North, in the course of which he visited the Highlay gold field and the lower part of the Manuberikia Valley. From a gentleman who accompanied him we have learnt a few particulars. The snow at Highlay has entirely disappeared, and the only difficulty the miners have to contend with is the want of fuel. One party has a mule, with which they manage to lay in a good supply. Others have to spend a considerable portiion of their time in bringing in wood. It is impossible to estimate the number of miners at Highlay, they are scattered about in all the little creeks. Our informant believes they are doing fairly. He saw one party pan off their sluice; fifteen panfuls gave a very fair result.. The much talked-of quartz reef is entirely abandoned, or, rather, it should be said, no work worth mentioning was ever done on it. Minute particles of gold can be seen in some of the stone broken off near the surface. There will probably bo some miners on the ground throughout the winter, but the absence of fujl makes it a place which the miners generally are not likely to patronise till warm weather sets in.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 182, 16 June 1862, Page 5
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215THE HIGHLAY DIGGINGS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 182, 16 June 1862, Page 5
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