MINING-INTELIIGENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 50, 23 January 1869, Page 5

MINING-INTELIIGENCE.

The following is from a recent Hum)er of the "Southland News" :^Mr. J^H Lothian, one of the party of miners jjj^^fl irho have been for some time project- ~^^^H n& on &tew?trt-'s Island. (Kuggedj Kay), returned yesterday. He reports . it moderate degree of success, and states that the quart* reefs show unmistakeable indications of sold, but Efoat to test them thoroughfy would require more capital, than the party lias at comn&and. n ,_ qOLDFOXPSOfIRCTOEIA.. The gpjdfields of Victoria now exbend westward from Stawell to the River Bendoc, 69 the eastern confines of the colony, a distance of 350 miles, and from north to south nearly 18Q miles. Number of miners employed in 1866, 73,577; in 1867, 65,857; showing a decrease of 7,720. On 31st December, 1867, there were 15,629 Chinese engaged in alluvial, and 47 in quartz nfpivmg — being a decrease of 4,458 on former year's returns. The following is a statement of the average earnings per man per ftntinm of allnvial and quartz miners from 1863 to> 1867* omitting fraction/* : — , Yxab. Aujtvxal MmsßS. Quabzz MniXBS. Not. Earnings Noa. Earning!. per Man. ' per Man. 1863 76,343 £59 710 16,024 £120 3 ft 1864 67.982 61 2 0 15,414 13Q 13 ft 1865 65,484 66 16 3 17,830 101 10 & 1866 57,912 66i 4 1 15,685 13*17 4 1867 51,7ia 67 10 7 14,138 158 11 8 These calculations are supposed not to' be absolutely correct, as r there is, little doub.t that a much larger (juantity of gold wasraisedinthecokoty than, is recorded in the returns^ ' In 1867 there were 470 steam engines employed in alluvial and 532 in quartz mining, of an aggregate horse power respectively of 9,863 and 9,955 tons ; number of stamp heads, 15,529 ; the total Value of machinery being £2, 079,195 ; the estimated value for each district being— Ballarat, £213,775; Beechworth, £246,607; Sandhurst, .£421,1504. JMarybojcou^, £2U,500tj M Castlemaine, £254,805 ; Ararat, £110, 558; Gipps Land, £120,800. In 1867, 2,381 auriferous quartz reefs hadbeen opened, and 868| square. miles of auriferous - ground worked more «r less.|. * •*- . AUCKLAND. * The long-coveted auriferous grounds; of the Upper Thame are y expected, with some certainty, to be opened within a month at the outside. A littie alluvial gold has been found in the Ohinemuri, and also Borne reefs, but nothing as yet to boast . of. Most of the natives are very much pleased at the successful termination of Mr. Mackay 'a mission. The warm weather J^M is felt very much after the late, cold '^H winds. The thermometer registered ~^H 82^ degrees in the sha^e »* noon^ ~H Crops looking well. ■ , J^M WHAT THE CELBBBABED traiTO^S CLAJp^^M During the recent trial of *nebreach ■ oi promise case, K»^ * 1 I *? mA > ™?^» following mfor«at«ffl aa to the jrajS* M of HuS f?nat theTh*»^£ ■ a^Uz^vereceiTad from the claim H _it was about £8,000. I have * ■ seven-eight share of a fourth part^ H Mr. Hunt has the same, Tfce pro®-. H pect of the mine look* M *«J1 •» * ■ f share. I have Im4» offer of S^'OOO. ■ [ I was willing to sell, but ihe purdiaaer ■ 1 could not 'find the money.— Joseph ■ Howard : lam an accountant in th» Bank of Australia. I : holder in Hunt's '^r^&^Sßer f^M . isasixtee^/^^berTlSe?. 1/ H » IT for my/ H rd vrould be the tair J~"j, tj^ lwea 1 , hUI mmc. At that rwe, w QBft