MACETOWN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1297, 7 October 1876, Page 16

MACETOWN.

Our correspondent from Macetown writes that the Homeward Bound Company are upon better stone than ever. They will commence the improvements to their machinery in a few days, and hope to have 200 tons of stone ready grassed to commence crushing with, which will be in about a month or five weeks ; the rouds will not be available until that time, owing to the excessive flow of water from the melting snow. The All Nations' Company have started with two shifts of men, and are pushing on their tunnel towards the Marlborough Company's boundary ; the gold is well distributed right through the reef, and you cannot take up a piece as big as a walnut without the precious metal being plainly visible ; this, the " cross reef," is, without a doubt, the finest discovery made in New Zealand. The Marlborough Company are preparing a . place as a' depot to receive their machinery and stores at Macetown, so as to form a basis of operations pending the reluctant snail-like operations of the Provincial Government to construct a track up the bed of the Twelve-mile Creek to Sawyer's Gully. As soon as this track ii ' available even for pack horses, there will be a considerable impetus to mining operations. As things are ,at present, the site of the Homeward Bound Company's machine, about half-way up, is the furthest point reachable, except on foot. All the tracks are now, in a very bad state ; even from the Arrow the packers will only take very light loads. — Dunstan Times. , A correspondent writing from Mace", town says : — The' All Nations and Homeward Bound claims are looking better, than ever. We had Mr M'Lafen up here tliree days last week. He carried away with him some splendid stone out of the Homeward Bound ■ claim ; the reef is 3 feet 6 inches wide now, with gold right through it. We had a terrible lot of rain up here, injuring, amongst other things, the road betwsen Arrowtown and here. — Ibid.