REEFTON.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 996, 16 August 1872, Page 2

REEFTON.

Prom the ' Herald' of Saturday last w e extract the latest items of Reefton news to hand:— A tender for the supply of crushing machinery for the Caledonian Company, by a Melbourne firm, lias been accepted at £3SO. The -wire rope to work tho Ajax Company's coal trucks, has been placed on the ground at Black's Point. Mr Mirfin, the road overseer, having consented to the packhorses laden with the material passim-over the new road. Later in the day abo , Uen pack-horses ladeD with sundry merchalriis! came ever the track, although a notice had been posted prohibiting traffic Mr Mirfin met the drivers at this end, and cautioned them against repeating the attempt until the road had been dddared open to traffic. On the news spreading that any endeavoring to cross the new track would be turned back, some of the packers started from Squaretown after nightfall, with the intention of passing through under cover of the darkness, but they reckoned without their host, as the road-overseer baled them up, revolver in hand, and threatened to shoot down the horses if the drivers persisted ia attempting to get through. Mr Mirfin] turned them off the road there and then,, and the discomfited packers had to find their way through the bush from the Devil's] Creek to the Old Saddle track as they bests could. The Golden Fleece Company, No. 1 north,! Shiel's, are expected to wash up early during the ensuing week. A reef three feet in thickness, and skow ing well, hes been struck in the low level ii German Jack's lease. The baling of the sha!t in Anderson's prospecting claim is completed, but repairs are needed in the drive. The Boulder Gold-mining Company commence operations upon a reduced area ol eleven acres. It in probable that in a few days a large number of unoccupied sections will be with drawn from the goldfields and offered Joi sale, —Messrs Austin and Darby havinj completed their contract with the Govern wient for the survey of 10,000 acres of agrj cultural land in the Inangahua Vallej The ground so offered for sale will not include blocks previously applied for as leases and occupied, which, thanks to Mr Woolley 1 exertions, will be ready to be submitted l the Warden for the consideration of th Government by next post. The leases th Government have decided to grant ai already in the hands of Mr Dobson, th Chief Surveyor, to be prepared for issue. The residents in Broadway arc canvassin for subscriptions to cover cost of footpaths. A Victorian visitor of mining experieiu expresses an opinion that, at Boatman's t| reofs known as Thomson'*, Clarke's, Caple' and Gaffhey's belong to one main lode, w yet struck, and that to properly developed district nothing is more wanted than « mining knowledge. The Energetic Company meet on the 231 to discuss the advisability of borrowing mow from the' Inangahua Company wherewith 1 purchase machinery.