MINING.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 82, 18 August 1863, Page 2

MINING.

The intelligence for the month fro;l|| Lake District is the gloomiest we lia|||| had to record";, not so much froijl|l supposed falling offiti (the ßichness Wi surprisingly rich field, but because J||| many fata! accidents which liave hapwi since our last summary. "Nearly » I persons have lost their lives in the \lg | lip district since the Bth July,'eit)J| | drowning in the flooded mountain toll 1 or by the numerous land -slips Wliiclffl I heen caused . by the' heavy rains. j| | streams are at the present momenl§||j great measure unworkable, and are ma to continue so for some time to conis iff spots not so much effected by the flou §m miners still continue to do well and ||| a few cases to realize piles. Thei ||| rumors of the discovery of several < ||| reefs, but our correspondent i^ho i il one of the spots holds but a poor oi ||| of its ever yielding very largely. 1® Queenstown people are agitating f s I|| holding in that town of a Court of ! |p and no 1 doubt such an institution $8$ prove of the greatest service to the sp^l The Lake District has not been tfjfcM its fair amount of rushes, none of i|j|J| much impoitance: the severity Kjjr| season and ihe difficulty of traiisf^|j| supplies of provisions through so||||| tainous a country going far to tWm the wandering tendencies of ihe d|l|| At Queenstown the Church of Eb^p which is a commodious wooden bui|i| hasbeen opened for divine service, »lifi|l not yet finished. The latter cudS month was marked by a rush of smllw portance towards SwanstoriV statins, the Mataura. There are perlia^| hundred and fifty persons scattered tSaR the various little gullies, a large ||g§ tion of then? earning fair wages, Klj|| finds have beeu reported. A very cokS < able addition to the population i|l| locality may be looked for in the ffl The gold is fine and >caly. moderately cheap. There have asvi§| no gold discoveries worthy of hoticefi| the Southland boundary. lluißtfiii . rich finds are continually reaching^ in no case have we been able to tnJflf to an authentic source. $m ■ The following are the particulars^ last gold escort which arrived in DiJs Queenstown 1,392|fa Arrow Kiver Tuapeka 2 > 3 3B§|f Waitahuna Woolshed 4?3 IB Swtizer's 4 5 fii Total 6,sSo|i

lf»C7nst be present owing to illness ■Sftir tfe notes of the ThreeToven. . sKfa rltill engages public •M^.gf iB& be carried, out in .«j»««g? 1^' t»eninsular and Oriental. Company are necessary prepar atious ., at Ivmg b^undtoreducetne public jj«rnnieni we uuy colonies KSxe^^rfeed they paid the; IB? 0 ? Queensland W ■p^auguS bythe National Colo'mS^S^^ been *4 atched to . jSliUlistress still exists in the^manufacKSSonal celebration-.of the three ■lredth birthday of Shakespeare is to be ■in London on. the 23rd April next, and B^Crowif prosecution of the builders of ■allied Confederate gunboat Alexandra an a verdict for the defendants. sreat cricket match between the Kcd Eleven and the All England was won former club. ■t*Ascot Races the gold vase was won by ■£nturer; the Derby bj Queen Bertha; ■the gold cup by Voltigeur, Tim Whiffler after a dead heat. ■lieWnd F ize PaI * is raCCI value L5 > 000 ' H Won by Mr Saville's Hanger. ]