MINING.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 60, 18 October 1864, Page 3

MINING.

i GOLD STATISTICS. The quantity of gold exported from the Province of Otago, says the Otago Daily Times, during the current year to this date, is 361,995 ox. 2dwt. The quantity previously exported waa as follows : —

1,165,580 Making a grand total since the discovery of the goldfields, of 1,527,5250z. 2dwt., the ' Value of which, at the English Mint price, is nearly £6,000,000. The escorts have brought down the following quantities of gold during the current year :— oz. dwfc.

«. The Otago Daily Times of the 19th inst., sayß : — " We are glad to learn there is some prospect of a good rush at Hill's Creek. It had just broken I out as the Dunstan coach was passing on Friday. j The ground was situated a quarter of a mile from the township. Only a few holes were bottomed ; I the best prospect was said to be a l£dwt. to tho j dish. Sinking from 3to 24 feet ; slate bottom. All the men working on Mr. D odd's race had struck to go to the rush." The usual fortnightly escort arrived in Dunedin on Tuesday afternoon. It conveyed the following quantities of gold : — Queenstown, 2,4390z5. 5 dvrts. ; Arrow River, 4840z3. ; Dunstan, 3,153 ozs. lOdwts. ; Manuherikia, 2,9450z5. lOdwts. ; Mount Benger, 5370z5. lOdwts. ; Hamilton's, 1,3830z5. lOdwts. ; Tuapeka, 2,1070z5. ; Waitahuna, 4510z5. ; Woolshed, 2150z5., total, 13,716 ozs. sdwts. The Wakatip Mail reports that the Arrow Prospecting Association have sent out four men in the direction of Bracken's Q-ully to prospect. They are paid at the rate of 30a. per man per week, and are to keep what gold they find. They have been both energetic and successful, and we trust their efforts for the public good will be rewarded. The following items of mining intelligence are extracted from the Otago Daily Times, and thrown doubts upon the authenticity of the- accounts of the extraordinary finds reported by the correspondent of the Otago Mail :— Advices from the Lake District intimate that the weather for the past fewdays has been unsettled, and that heavy rain has fallen. The rivers were vere little affected, and mining was going on satisfactorily. ■• A party, a short distance from Maori Point, had been very successful, each man realizing from*£2o to £28 per week. It is expected that a Sluicing Company, on a large scale, would «ommence operations in a few days, and find employment for about fifty men at wages. The reports of extraordinary finds published in the journal of a contemporary, are not confirmed. From the Head of the Luke favorable accounts are received, and it seems likely to prove a valuable gold field. During the' last fortnight a very ; large amount of- gold, has heen brought into Queenstbwn from the Upper orer. Messrs Hallenstein purchased last, week 500 oz. from one party. The favored locality is not far from Butcher's Point. A party known as the " Kerry men" have done exceedingly well, and great success is reported in other quarters. From the Wakatip Mail we observe that gold has been struck in one' of the terraces near the head of the Shotover Q-orgei*- From the- same source we are informed that average weekly ■ dividends of £12, £15, and £20 are not uncommon on ■ the Nokomai -diggings. Marlborough papers contain long and gloomy accounts of the devastation caused by the recent flooding of the .Wakamarina, and its" tributary" streams. Deep Creek attained the unprecedented height, of twenty-six feefc. ' The roads have become impassable, and flumes, pumps, sluice boxes,, wheelbarrows, and forests of timber, \ of all^kihds and sizes, have been floated* down the Pelorus en masse. The amount of loss 'mulcted oh thVworkinen is said to be almost incalculable. ; ' " • '

' oz. 1861 187,695 1862 ..397,602 1863 580,233

January 12 15,766 6 26 16,569 8 February 9 ..21,780 7 27 16,262 0 March 12 :14,936 3 23 22,678 15 April 6 21,435 11 19 22,214 0 May 3 22,565 5 17 „17,172 1 31 13,108 0 June 14 12,732 18 29 10,411 0 July 12 12,692 7 26 11,721 O August 9 14917 15 ,° 23 14,088 11 September 6 12,637 11 293,688 18