THE LAKES COUNTRY.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 66, 31 October 1864, Page 3

THE LAKES COUNTRY.

THE SHOTOYER. (From the Wakaiip Mail of 26th October.) G-old is being obtained in remunerative quantities wherever the miners can get to the bottom of their paddocks; and several parties, after many months of unrequited labor, are about to reap the benefit of their perseverance. This applies to Millan and party, who have got their newly erected wheel — the " Vigilance " -r— at work at last ; and to the two other parties who have an equal share in that long piece of ground ; below the Maori Point bridge, known as the sailor' s a claim. ; The Aylmer Eace Company are proceeding with their sluicing,, and will soon wash up. They took out some twenty ounces from their, boxes a few days after they first commenced to wash, and this appears to have lodged there contrary to the- wishes of the proprietors, who say Ibhey must have lost considerably in cc-n---se^uence. The gold must haye

over into the river, owing to the boxes being too close to their work. However, the proper plan for sluicing -was soon carried into effect, and we shall shortly hear of the. result. Denny and party took out thirteen ounces from, one paddock near the Defiance, last week; and I regret to say "William Harvey, a highly respected miner— one of the party — met with; a serious accident yesterday. In adzing away a portion of their timber framing, the tool struck against a pump, and glancing off, entered the instep to a considerable depth. He is now laid up, unable to leave his bed. The two Cornishmen' at ' Skipper's— Pearce and Co. — are still obtaining as large quantities of 1 gold as ever, and I hear that they have already cleared over £1000. . . I More rough gold has been shown to me, j taken from Londonderry terrace. Two parcels of about a pound weight each, j contained pieces from a penny weight to two and a half ounces. Out of the whole there was not an ounce in which the pieces were less than a pennyweight. This was as coarse a lot of gold as was ever taken from the Adelaide G-ully, or from any of the hills about Mount Alexander, in the earliest days of Victorian goldfields. Miners who have rushed to the Pelorus or Grey, never dreamed of the treasure which their feet must have passed over. Skipper's seems to be the cradle of a gold country ; and there is any amount of unworked ground yet to be obtained there.