MINING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 14, 2 August 1873, Page 7

MINING.

OTAGO. i. q /Vi? 6 '" 1 * of £ l< ? n St Bathans District Miners Association was held at Sfc Bathans on Friday, 25th July, for the purpose of electing a permanent committee in occordance with the rules of Association. Nine gcntWn were elected, viz. :— Messrs R. Brown and G. H. Smith for Welshmans gully, Messrs W. Wade and H. Gardner for Hills creek, and Messrs J. Ewing, E. Wood, Samuel Turner, John McNamara, and George Purton for St Bathans. Messrs Wade and .Lwuig were elected Treasurer and Secretary respectively. _„ WEST COAST. There are, says the Hokitika < Star,' about 150 Chinese in the Waimea district, all of whom are getting on well apparently, and are Tv Sft/?uS ft /?u- ff ' th the stol ' e W>ers, as they are cash customers. About 30 of this race recently left the Waimea for No Town, in the Grey V alley. At the Greenstone there are about fifty Chinamen working and there they are regarded equally well, and are industrious and inoffensive. Indeed, on the Coast " John " seems to flourish and to excite little of the antipathy too often found on the gold fields. At a late meeting of the Directors of the Kanieri Lake Water Race Company, the manager reported having disposed of upwards of 6000 shares It was resolved to apply immediately for the Government loan, in conformity with the regulations, and to commence work directly a favorable answer is received, the directors feeling confident that the remaimng shares will be readily taken up. The capital of the Company is 20,000 shares of £1 each. Mn Ir ' djrameliM the arrival at Nelson of an ingot of gold, weighing 2400z5., from the Deoimal Company's claim at Collingwood, the Examiner remarks that "it is highly probable that Dr H&tor's opinion of this ground will yet be realised and prove one of the richest mines in the Colony.