MINING.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 47, 17 September 1864, Page 7

MINING.

The Lake correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, -writing on the 15th inst.,- communicates the following :— The Mataura Bend Bush has, according to anticipations, turned out a delusion ; it was never, however, believed, in much or by many. It. might not be a bad idea in the place of several defunct associations to get up one for making a horse track to the golden regions of the West Coast, where a rush is certain as the season advances. The coast must always be under most favorable circumstances, difficult of access for vessels, and Queenstown might he made the depot for the new ; diggings. A few months -will bring : the main trunk road into the town, for sub-tenders are, we. understand, given out to complete' the contract'; and we ought, then, to be in a position, to compete with any otheV market in supplying a' goldfield within;forty\ or fifty miles of the head of Lake... 2iews, from the\l Noiomai is good, and especially /in Tictonal <3Txlly considerable, success ; is spoken. o£,V CEte terraces axeyery .'.steep, and /the j stripping heavy. ,^\ .•..•■.■•., i The last gold.escort .from Queen stowri conveyed! 2,100 ounces, 1 wbich/tafeing 'into account the dis-i aßtrous effects of tiie ifloods^lately, is considered; satisfactory— one or two large parcels also having ; remained behind: .: ; )Duriiig>the ' floods: last year the escort fiwindled. down, on one occasion, to; under 800 otuaces. " ■ I • We^;areindebted'i»ithe > ?WaJc(&p::Maik:jil4m \ 20th inßt.,=for •tlw.rfoUow^ininingne'wp *boufc 60 oulieM^B taken oator^paddocs. Tli«

; miners on the Big Beacliare repairing the damage done by, the late Hoods, and expect in a few days i to set' hi to work again at their claim. The ac- •; counts from M'Master's claim, Sutherland's Beach, '; are excellent, and the yield is said to eclipse ' al- '., most anything known before on the Shotover." ■i Another accident, says the Wahatvp Mail, r occurred at the Twelve Mile, Arrow, owing to the [ loosening of the surface soil by. the frost, and . occasional rapid thaws. On Tuesday, a large mass of rock suddenly came do.Avn amongst a i party of miners working under a facing, and seriously injured a man named Smith, crushing '. him. on the legs and lower part of the body. He was too much. -injured to be carried to the hospital, and will be confined to a bed of suffering for some time to come. /The last Otago gold escort conveyed the following quantities of gold to Dunedin from the various goldfields, viz. : — Q.ueenstown, 2,1020z5. ; Arrow River, 48f ozs. ; Dunstan, 3,04-lozs. lOdwts. ; Manuherikia, 2,9350z5. lOdwts. ; Mount Benger, 5570z5. sdwts. ; Hamilton's, l,Bllozs. lOdwts, ; Tuapeka, 2,5460z5. ; Waitahuna, 3210z5. ; Wool- • shed, 2360z5. 16dwts ; total, 14,0880z5. lldwts. The latest report of the Warden at Gabriel's states that "'mining matters continue in a very satisfactory state, and . that it was in contemplation to form a company for the purpose of bringing water from the Waipori to the Blue Spur, Gabriel's, twelve to fifteen heads of water. The population is reported at 2,300.