THE WAIMEA,
(FROM OUH OWN COEEESPONDENT.)
11th September, 1867.
The work of mining has been steadily carried on during the week without the occurring of any noticeable event. The new ground at the foot of lied Jack's Gully off the righthand branch of the Waimea Creek is gradually being tested with satisfactory results, two or three payable shafts having been bottomed. The gold obtained is of a coarse description, and some of it is iutermixed with quartz, forming very fair specimens. At Quinn's Terrace, Piper's Flat, the work preparatory to obtaining the gold being finished, miners are now reaping the harvest of their labor. Payable claims are now worked on the south-western side of this terrace, and on the northern sideling of the next high hill, as well as in the flat intervening. The sample of gold is coarse, pieces weighing half a pennyweight and aver a pennyweight being common.
At the Fox's Rush, fourth Scaudinavian Terrace and at Lamplough, no new discovery has been made for some time, but the population located there are earning from good wages to something considerably in excess of them.
At tho old workings no item of importance has transpired with tho exception of a party working near M'Fetrich's store in Callaghiin's Gully, having washed over a pennyweight of gold to a dish and thus causing several fresh parties to set into work here.
The main track between Stafford Town and Goldsborough is at last being repaired, the Government having employed two men to fill up the worst bog holes in it. Bridges over the Waimea Creek are much needed in bad weather, and if the promise made by the Superintendent, when at the Waimea, be fulfilled, this, work will likewise be performed.
A fire, fortunately confined to one houae, broke out on Sunday night last, at the tenement occupied by Thos. Bennett, at Stafford Town, most of whose weai*iug apparel was destroyed, and nothing remains of the domicile but a portion of its sides.
The following is a report of the Court business : —
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West Coast Times, Issue 614, 12 September 1867, Page 2
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340THE WAIMEA, West Coast Times, Issue 614, 12 September 1867, Page 2
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