THE MAHAKIPAWA GOLDFIELD. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8362, 10 December 1888, Page 2

THE MAHAKIPAWA GOLDFIELD. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

. . Havelock, December 8. a notice to the warden has been posted by W. Campbell and party stating that they have marked out a prospecting area 1200 ft long on the left-hand branch of the Arm-chair creek, about 200 yds from Jackson's creek iune- ■\ .^m locality is well up the Wairau river, aDout 30 miles to the westward of Waikakaho, a ud *h(LEmall g«ll'es in the vicinity have kept about 30 miners at work for many years. Quartz reefs hp.ve also been discovered in the same belt of country, but not rich enough to warrant extensive speculation. Probably this summer, as more diggers get prospecting, something more will be obtained. The Wakamarina Maori Gorge Company have again commenced operations at their claim, and we expest to hear the claim will be pumped out within a few days. This makes the fourth time persistent speculators have tried to bottom this deep hole. If success attends their efforts, the Deep Creek Gorge will soon be under way again. About 60 miners make a living at the old Wakamarina.

One or two parties are still prospecting up the Long Valley, Kaituna, but the ground is proving very deep, and -will take some weeks to thoroughly test. Licensed holdings for the Golden Crown Company, Success Company, Just-in-Time, Kapai, Silence, and Waikakaho, were granted at the Warden s Court during the week, subject to the regulations and provisions of the Mining Act, reservation of timber rights, and protection of some small alluvial claims within their boundaries. . : .

No special finds are recorded this week, and no complete " duffers " chalked up. We hear of many satisfactory results for the week's work, but nothing more. Corbett and party have started testing the deep ground of Cullers Flat with a steam engine and pulsometer pump for keeping pace with the drainage, and a second party have, a smaller engine at work in another part of tha flat. They are down about 30ft. If this ground should prove payable it means additional employment for some hundreds of men. Jackson and party, the original prospectors, nave applied to the road board, under the regulations of the Mining Act, for a bonus for their discovery. The local body have referred them to the minister of Mines.

The post and telegraph office at Cullensville will soon be an accomplished fact; and great preparations are being made by the committee to organise a grand programme for the Havelock Mahakipawa sports and regatta at new year -

A Wellington telegram says that there is a small gold rush on Buller road, opposite Junkers; one party are on payable gold. Mr Mace has just received a telegram from the Owen silver reefs to the effect that a very rich lode had been struck in the shaft now being sunk on the Silverstream lease, the extent of which could not be ascertained untifnext week, but it has every appearance of being very thick. This lease is just below the Waimea and within a short distance of the Welcome, on which a good lode is now being opened out.—Christchurch Press.