HEAD OF THE LAKE.
(From the Wakatip Mail, August Bth, 1864.^ Mining matters here have had a severe shock. Early last week there was an evident change in the weather, and on Thursday morning the heavens were clothed in sombre garments. A little rain fell during the day, and shortly after sunset it came down hi real earnest at Precipice Creek ; the violence of the water sweeping everything before it. The damage done to the miners on the Bucklerburn is to be deeply regretted— scarcely a claim escaping — the fury of the merciless current carrying everything before it. Goldsmith's party have lost a quantity of timber. The Greek claim is leveUed, and will take five weeks te repair damages. The holders of the Morning Star have suffered largely, and say it will take them two months to pnt their claim in working order. Several others have sustained losses. Fortunately, one party, thinking^their hut did not stand on a secure spot, immediately set to work and shifted it, on the very night some slips came and brought down trees which, doubtless, would have destroyed them but for the precaution they had taken. -j. •
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 18 August 1864, Page 3
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192HEAD OF THE LAKE. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 18 August 1864, Page 3
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