THE SCOTCH GOLDEIELDS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 84, 18 September 1869, Page 3

THE SCOTCH GOLDEIELDS.

The run of luck to a few diggers reported in last week's " Scotsman " Las continued throughout this week, and the declarations in connection with the Crown royalty show, in a good many cases, better finds than for some time past. Suisgill Burn still finds most favour with the diggers, and a good many old claims have been taken possession of, and are being reworked at that place. A repox't was in circulation last week that the Duke of Sutherland had granted an extension of the digging limits, and that new claims were to be given out in the begining of next month j but on inquiry we find that the report was premature. Many of the diggers consider that continuing to work on the present claims, which are now about exhausted, is a decided loss of time, and that unless additional ground is given out, they state that they will be obliged to desert the business. The diggings have caused a good deal of traffic between Helznsdale and Kildonan during the last six months. Two bread and provision vans run thrice a week to supply the wants of the diggers, and two conveyances carrying passengers leave Helinsdale in the morning, returning the same evening. Tourists and sightseers of every description are now daily arriving here en route for the diggings, which, to all appearance, are likely to attract large numbers of people this summer. The Eoyal Engineers are still engaged surveying in the neighbourhood of Kildonan, and it will be some time yet before the survey is completed in that quarter. "We learn that they have found gold in various points on the hill sides, and in some instances even on the summits. As no report has yet been made officially, we are not yet aware if the surveying party has made any search for auriferous quartz. In the course of digging and excavating in the vicinity of the burns, veins of quartz have been often met with, but in nono of it has gold been seen by the naked eye. Several pieces of auriferous quartz have been found in the burns, but every case these were rounded and -waterworn, showing that they must have been carried from a distance, either by the agency of ice or water. Only about a dozen new licenses have been, taken out during -the past week, the total number issued for the present month up till Saturday being 185. — " Scotsman," July 3rd.

Lumps of gold as big as potatoes are still being unearthed, it se c ms; for the " Mount Alexandra Mail " tells vs — "A splendid nugget, weighing 57 oz. 12 dwfc., has been found in the Hit-or-Miss Gully, at Vaughan, just about 100 yards from where the large nugget that brought between £300 and £400 was discovered about twelve months ago. The sinking iv this gully, which ha 3 been so famous from time to time for its yields of heavy gold, is but shallow, the hole from which the find of which we are now making record being but about twentyfive feet deep. It is rather surprising why bo little has been done in this quarter towards trying thoroughly the quartz reefa. Just about six months since from £600 to £700 worth of gold was obtained from a quartz vein, yet there has not been sufficient spirit and vigour displayed by the miners to follow up systematically the gold of which there have been so many traces indicative of rich lodes."

The quartz discoveries in Canterbury do not appear to surpass in richness those which lately agitated the public mind there. An occasional contributor to the " Press," who has adopted the " Artemus Ward " style, reports on them as follows : — " Sur, — I beg tinform yew that I aye maid a kairile naliises of sevral thousan tun of quartz with the folloin sattisfactori reezult : — Gold ... 0 Silvur - - -0 Plata üm - . - 0 Bunkum ... Prezent. This ere quartz was got from every knone and onknone orrifrus districk in Kanterberry, and niixt purmiskuus like, and eubjekked to the ceveeris test. ... I aye a magniffine glass to let of 1,000,000,000 hors power, and garra.nte«>d to trais paiable gold in ennifchin." The reports from the several reefs at "Waterhouse continue*to be very flattering. It is reported that the gentleman sent over from Ballarat to visit the Worth Coast has returned, and has closed wifch the owners of ike Pioneer Reef for a transfer, the purchase money being £5,000, half cash, balance in shares. The road to Waterhouse at this season is so bad as to deter many from making a trip, but it will by and by be different, when better information will be attainable. The accounts from Fingal also continue favourable, but for the reason before mentioned, they do not attract the 1 notice which those from the north-east coast do.

"We ("Halifax Morning Chronicle") have been shown by the manager of the Montreal Gold Mining Company, operating at TJniacke, a brick of gold weighing upwards of 50 oz. It waa the product of the company's mine at that place for May. Silver ore has been discovered in Arkansas, thirteen miles from Fayetteville, in the north-western part of the State, and is reported to be rich and abundant.

The following is the latest Auckland news from the " Daily Times " telegrams: — The yield of the G-olden Crown claim- for last month was 2345 ounces. The total yield for the year was 26,343 ounces, of the value of £65,368. Two full shares in a claim at Coromandel have been sold at £12,000 each. Some specimens from, the Long Drive claim have yielded 4 ounces of retorted gold to the pound of stone. A rich leader has been discovered in the Imperial Crown claim. Mr. Clarkson, the discoverer of Hunt's claim, is going home to England, and it is intended to peeseut him with a testimonial before his departure. A proclamation in yesterday's " Grazette " defines the boundaries of the new gdld&eld at the Marewhenua. The area in question is described as " containing by estimation 145,000 acres, more or less, bounded by a line proceeding from the boundary of the present goldfield along the southern boundary of run 28 and the Otekaike stream to the Waitaki river ; thence to the eastern boundary of the Marewhenua hundred ; thence along the said eastern boundary of the Marewhenua hundred and the northern and western boundaries of the Kakanui hundred, and a direct line from the south-west corner of the said Kakanui hundred to Kakanui peak ; and thence northerly along the boundary of the present goldfield to the starting point."

Peteoleum is eaid to have been discovered on the line of the Pacific Railway. A Clergyman of Pittsfield, Massa« ehusetts, being away from home, tele~ graphed his sermon to his flock. The intelligence comes from lowa that Mrs Bloomer has abandoned her principles by again donning petticoats. Twelve students were recently suspended and two expelled from Fairfax Institute, Vermont, f° r violating the bye-law which prohibits students from walking or talking with young ladies in public places. The " Choir" states that among tho pupils recently admitted into the Leipsic Conservatoire is a young South Australian, the firat student from that remote corner of the world. An Unnatural Moxhee. — A mother at Leonding, Austria, wishing to- get rid of her child, scarcely five months old, placed it clos^ to a beehive. The poor infant had already been stung severely, when a gendarme who was passing perceived it and carried ifc, away. The woman was soon after arrested.