GILES TERRACE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 354, 18 September 1868, Page 2

GILES TERRACE.

(PROM OTJB OWtf CORRESPONDENT.) In the much disputed case of Luke and party, against Perry and party, on Q-iles Terrace, the Warden has issued an order directing the latter to cease working in the ground in dispute, through which Perry's tunnel runs. It has just been laid off on the ground by Mr. Coe, Mining Surveyor, and the disputed boundary marked out by him in the tunnel. As Perry and Co struck good payable gold before coming to that point, they have now started a branch tunnel, diverging from the main drive in their own ground, from which they can well keep their boxes going and suffer no inconvenience from the injunction laid on by the Warden. Perry has been for some time washing up, and Davis and party are pre •taring to do the same. Prom the prospect's obtained, the claims on Giles Terrace are expected to yield about an ounce of amalgam, or about half an ounce of gold per hour, which, for say ten hours washing will pay about £25 per man per week; as an average, no doubt some will pay more, and others less, but I have no doubt this may be taken as a fair mean return of the claims.

Giles' is becoming quite a township, a street now existing where only a fortnight ago a couple of houses stood, and without question, when washing is going on in all the claims, it will be the most stirring place on the West Coast.

The drives from theDeadman's Creek are going on rapidly, some of the tunnels there, will be over a quarter of a mile in length. Four new tuunels are going in on the German Terrace on the opposite side of the Arawaite, from Giles', and the lead in all probability will be traced there also. The bottom of the Arawaite ralley being some hundred or so below the tunnels at Giles it may be very safely, I think, presumed that the river has cut through it, in fact in Evans and Co's the prospectors, claim, the gold eommenced at the very face of the terrace, when they commenced their tunnel.

A. very ugly trick, as dangerous as it was no doubt malicious was played on Luke and party on Sunday night, by knocking off the blocks fastened at the end of the tip head, at their new tunnel. These blocks stopped the truck loaded with the dirt coming out on the rails, and might have led to the man pushing, being precipitated over with the truck. The fall would be fifty or a hundred feet, and might have led to loss of life if it had not fortunately been discovered in time. The blocks were firmly spiked on to the rails, and must have been knocked off intentionally. lam very sorry to report such a thing from a locality where I did not think there was a man who was capable of it, but such however is the fact, and it speaks for itself.

A new hotel is going up at the supposed junction of the track to Giles and the Caledonian, and I am certain wich a very good prospect of successful trade.

Mr. Long has purchased the thirtyacres of land recently surveyed for Mr. Jackson at the Orawaite, and is also getting thirty acres at the opposite side of the road, surveyed on his own application ; he is getting a considerable portion of ifc under green crop, for which no doubt he will have a very profitable and permanent market. The two horse tracks used here both by the Pakihis and the river are getting fearfully cut up, and are greatly in need of the District engineer's inspection. The usual track is now so used up that pedestrians are obliged to make considerable detours through fallen timber and scrub to avoid being up to their knees at every step. The Caledonian track as far as it is used to here is in very good condition.