WAIKAIA.
(From our own Correspondent.) Six ounces to the shovel ! After an absence of several weeks, such was the news that greeted me on my return to this place. Duncan and party, of the Anylo-Swiss claim, have taken another paddock off, which is equal to their last. On Thursday last, they had 69 ounces in hand, and two days* washing to come from the same paddock. The party have now about six or eight paddocks walled off, which doubtless will average lOOozs. to the paddock. Probably they may not be able to take above one or two paddocks more off before the spring floods set in, but they will have a good start for the next season, in consequence of having a number of paddocks walled off. The prospects in this claim are really splendid. The run is now defined ; it is a sort of gutter, and I think the croakers who have been crying out that it was a patch, will have to acknowledge they were mistaken. No other claim on the river, as yet, is on the deep ground, but all parties are working away with spirit, and there can be no doubt of their ultimate success. The Whitecomb and surrounding gullies are producing a fair average yield of gold, and all parties are apparently satisfied. The road to Switzers is simply shameful, and it is high time something was done to it to make it passable. I passed oyer it a few days ago, and it was as much as an unburdened horse could do to travel through the mud, which was up to the saddle girths. How the pack-horses get through, I leave you to judge for yourself. Tho following day 1 passed over the ranges to the Teviot, which track is now impassable for horses, as in some places th<>re are twenty or thirty feet of snow, which has drifted in ridges across the path t<» that height. It was fortunate that I did not attempt to take a horse over, as contemplated, or it would have stuck in the snow, and 1 should have been obliged to leave it to perish, as I found, although the snow was sufficiently frozen to carry a man, it would not carry a horse.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 289, 14 August 1873, Page 5
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376WAIKAIA. Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 289, 14 August 1873, Page 5
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