ANALYSIS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 238, 24 September 1862, Page 5

ANALYSIS.

Analysis after deducting the losa of hydroscopic water %vlu'ch = 1.37 per cent. IKSOLTJBLIJ IK ACIDS. Sandy matter, principally angular fragments of quartz, tormii.g a white sand 52.77 Clay matter, undecomposed silicates which floated oS in the turbid water upon loevigatiou ... --„. 41.46 J SOLUBLE IN ACII>S. Alumina ... ... 1.77 Iron ... .. .. ... .. traces. SOLUBLE IN WATER'AND DELIQUISCENT. Chloride of sodium .. «. .. .78 Chloride of magnesium 16 Chloride ot calcium .. ... .. .10 Water of constitution .. ... 2.77 Loss ... ... ... .. ... .24 ■■''...■. 10O0Q.

MURPHY'S FLAT.

(From a Cqiuiesponimjst.)

_So Miirph/s Flat is forgotten 1 Wo hope for a little asii^tance through your valuable paper for Murphy's Plat. Government Joists u> J>oiise of as ; now that the punstan ennnot support the large nopnla* tion of dlggT3 thnt rushed tli*re, Mnrphyo Flat seems to Lo the order of the day. At preseut there is a population of about 350 steady working miutw, and more keep coining every day. I believe diggers uro all making fair wages. Several are earning from one pound to twenty-five uhillio#s per day. There are sutoo very bad places on the road between hero ami AVaikouaiti almost impassable for horses and drays, in consequence of which we have to pay £30 per ton cartage from Waikonaiti—a distance of about 33 milej. About tiiree small bridges, at a very sumll expense, would much remedy this exhorbidaut cartage. It is necessary we should Lave an escort—if it were oaiy two troopers once a week, or once a fortnight. All the gold has to go down by private band». All business men have to curry their gold to Dnnedin to sell it, as there are no Banks at Waikouaiti j and, it compelled to sell any gold in Waikooaiti, we can get L3l Is. Cd. per ounce, when we are paying L3l^s. 61. on the diggings per ounce. ' Wo have had a little claim jumping lately—Murphy a Mat not being proclaimed a gold Held. And beltig on Mr. Hamilton's station, Mr. Hopkiu's, nor Mr. Saxfou's nhcep will not be allowed to come on the digging alive, bo* the butcher has to pack- Irs mutton oa horses; and the digger has to pay for all these disadvantages. At present, diggers are glad to pay Is. Gd. for a sheop's bead and pluck. iSow that this little field seems m a thnving gtate, vv-e hope CJovernment will allow this flat the privilege tne miner deserve?.

Murphy's Flat, Sept. 20th, 18G2