The Goldfields.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 20, 1 April 1890, Page 2

The Goldfields.

MAHAKIPAWA. (From Our Own Correspondent). Downie’s Mistake have the record this week with 98oz. The Never Surrender divided 71nz^ The Venture got over three pounds weight up to Saturday morning, and had not then taken up the This claim and JohnstflHwrace claim below have been big dividends all through. I am informed that the terrace has over2ooooz. . The Long Time got lloz. . The Lucky Hit and several more of the creek claims getting good returns. The Te Ore Ore made a fresh start this week, they are driving down from the Downie’s Mistake shaft, which is on their upper boundary, and have already got an ounce 'or two, and I hope to have to record a big thing for them next week. ; The Prospectors’ claim is at a standstill, they are waiting for a flood to clear away their tailings. , ; > It strikes me forcibly that more than one of our sluicing claims are putting their tailings and forkings in the creek, and are waiting for a dispensation of Providence to get them washed down, and buy the claims below them, when, by working in a systematic manner, they would not be blocked up themselves or injure parties below. J ‘ Our Warden explained at one time that the creek was the natural channel •for tailings, and that each party must pass them down from one to the other. Now this might- be practicable when there is a good fall, but in the lower claims where the tailraces are nearly on a dead level it simply means that they have to be hurried up, and clear way the tailings that ought to have been put on One side by the upper ' claim. 1 This was. exemplified in a 1 Court case in connection - with ‘ the Homeward Bound a few weeks i ago, ■ when it came out in evidence that the Homeward Bound were thirteen weeks getting out one Paddock, which simply • means that they were eleven weeks | shovelling other peoples tailings. i We have another iiistance ,of waitj mg for a dispensation of Providence in the Last Chance claim, who, with a ’ little Wheel five feet some inches'in [ diameter, worried along till water got , short, when they waited patiently for - rain for, several weeks, at last some one s suggested to make the wheel bigger, | which was accomplished with a pounds r worth; of timber and two days’, work, I with the result that the: pump beats , the water easily, and they are now ■ working full time, and I hope before [ long to record a big dividend from their , claim. , .. .vii

I don’t know exactly how much gold has been purchased this week, but if no gold has been held back, from what I know to have been got, I don’t think I shall exaggerate by putting it at over 400 oz. . ■ , ,

The National Bank opened on Saturday,' and, judging, by the . of people dodging in and out I should think they did a" good-business. It will be a great convenience , to people here, especially to folks who put bundles of notes in, bottlesand bury them in their huts. But then again it mil be a great drawback to the’ man that finds the plant and digs it up. So it is only a mixed blessing after all; A hut belonging to one of the shareholders of the MahaEpawa Gold-min-ing Company was burnt on Saturday. A man named Whalen lost his clothes, blankets, and everything he possessed in it. He was : just about to start for California, and had Ms steamer ticket for ’Frisco in,the hut, which was burnt. It is to be hoped the Union Company will issue him another one. There is some talk of forming a Union here, wages men being naturally indignant at the action of the Davis & Carr Company, in employing men at seven shillings a day. There is to be a public meeting called, when the affair will be discussed, and steps taken, if possible, to prevent them from lowering the standard wage. It does seem strange that a claim, according to the prospectus, yields an ounce to . the square foot puts on men at seven shillings, while the Alice Fell and other companies who have not got gold at all have been cheerfully paying ten shillings a day. for a year .and more. ) Mr Akersten has erected a photographic gallery/here/next to Levy’s store, and I think .with the mendations he will get from the he immortalised : cpr' h j's and the first-claSs johotbE.-he he is certain to do a good business.

Captain Fisk took away a, steamej? full of our diggers on a- fishing excursion .to Queen Charlotte Sound this morning (Sipiday)/ • ' ' ‘ The Education Bo&id have built the new school (in their minds), aud it looks as if that is about 1 the end of it. I see there are two vacancies to be filled up, I hope the School Committee will nominate members who will give us fair play, instead of members-who let our children shiver in an old iron shed, while their own children go to school waj:m apd

WAKAMARINA. Mr Price, of Wellington, one of il the directors of the .Golden Bar, has been on an official visit to the rpei. ~ He his highly delighted with all helms * seen, and from two shots let off while - there splendid specimens were •tßSied. The reef shows, gold plainly, and ere long machinery will be on the :i ground and the long onely Wakajiari na be again the.scene ol activity and bust le. On Mr Price s report the directors yv ill. take ipeasuresAo carry oni'wor k : with energy. We beg to SBmi a ttentionof the Pelorusßoad ,mU to the necessity of at once nmkdecent road to the reefs as far as is already surveyed, and trust they mil consider : this matter at their meetmg to-morrow. From the ; Gorge we learn tnat eveaything is going on swimmingly, and from the stuff now being put through : good prospects are being obtained. The bottom is not yet reached, but the knowing ones have good faith .-in. the undertaking, and we hope in our next issue to chronicle a real good ■ find. • ■ " _ , , Latest. -Indications point to; the -fact that the washing has been more successful than outsiders suppose. Men working are anxious to buy shares. Golden Bars are quoted at; 16s 6d; Federation (late Duchess) 3a.