The Southland Times. TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1866.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 8, 10 July 1866, Page 2

The Southland Times. TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1866.

"We are requested to call attention to the sale by Mr Tood, at his Booms, Dee-street, this day at noon, consisting of tho wreck of the " Calypso," with its cargo of coals, cedar, cheese, pigs, &c, firewood, potatoes and other merchandise. We have intelligence from Eiverton and the diggings to the 9th July, of a most satisfactory character. The number of miners at the Orepuki is still about two hundred and fifty, and all express themselves satisfied with the result of their working, notwithstanding that the severity of the weather has considerably impeded mining operations. It is believed that the diggings will extend from the present working to the TJria, a distance of fourteen miles from Kiverton, as each claim in that direction that has been bottomed is paying from seven to ten pounds per man per ■Ww-ek, when there is low tide in the daytime. The Government safe and other property which has been forwarded to Eiverton has not yet arrived, the ooat in which it had been placed not having been able to reach the port; and for the present it would be most difficult to land a safe or other heavy articles. The miners in the Longwood Eanges are doing well, and the indications of rich quartz reefs that have been discovered has induced several to prospect high up in the ranges. Eerndstein and party left Eiverton on the 4th July on a quartz reef search, and other parties are preparing to follow. In addition to this a company of twenty members has been formed to pay four experienced miners to prospect for a month in order to determine the value of the reels known to exist in the Longwood Eanges. An experienoed Victorian and West Coast miner has informed us that he consiiders the Eiverton goldfields will prove highly productive ; that he has interests in four claims, aud without working continually himself, he makes from fifteen to twenty pounds per week. He states that the beach claims are inexhaustible ; that every storm washes up auriferous matter equal to what has been previously taken from the claims ; and that by steady perseverance the miner may, on the Eiverton goldfields, earn as much as on any diggings in New Zealand. A large quantity of gold is still in the hands of the , miners. We would desire to call the attention of the members of the Southland Club to the general annual meeting which will be held to-morrow (Wednesday), the 11th July, at the Southland Club. ' This is the chief institution in the Province ; it has worked evenly and well, and reflected credit upon the town ; every vistor that has arrived here expressing an opinion that there was nothing in New Zealand that surpassed it, if, there was its equal. That the accommodation is excellent, there can be no question, and that its conduction has been satisfactory, all agree. If it were practicable to extend its operations ; to have a collection of works of reference, such as M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary, Beeton's Dictionary of Universal Information, and the like; it would become of still greater value. We hope all the members will make it a duty to be present. The Southland Club has hitherto been well sustained, and it is to be hoped that the support given during the ensuing year, will far exceed that of the present.