WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 190, 28 September 1871, Page 5

WAITAHUNA.

(From our otv.i. Correspondent.)

I see that a couple of correspondents discovered a maiVs nest in my last communication. "What the simple reference made by me, to the fact of the Miner's Committee having held a meeting, had to do with that body, and why it should be held responsible for anything I might have said, even if I had praised the conduct of its members (which I did not), I cajinot understand. Their object, I suppose, is best known io themselves.

The stone in the Ocean View reef is improving, as a late crushing yielded at the rate of ten pennyweights to the ton.

There is a rumor that a payable reef has been discovered on the west side of the south branch of the Tokomairiro river. It is supposed to be a continuation of the Canada, and was found by a miner named Smith, who is washing and, cradling the stone, snowing clearly enough the presence of loose gold, whatever there may be in the stone when crushed. I hear he intends supplying himself with a quicksilver cradle as the gold is very tine and difficult to save with the cradles in ordinary use.

We had a visit from Edith Palmerston on Saturday night last. There was a fair house, and those present seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly.