KAWARAU GORGE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 204, 7 October 1873, Page 6

KAWARAU GORGE.

(prom our own correspondent.) October 6, 1873. Mining news I have none for the past week; owing to the races, I suppose, but little work has been done. Even our coal-pit appears to be at a standstill, if one may judge by the complaints of the inhabitants about the difficulty of being supplied with fuel. It is a great pity that this pit is not worked more energetically : it is no doubt a very valuable property, but has been mismanaged from the first. The bed has every appearance of being of great extent, and the seams are wide and well-defined ; the coal is good ; the working dry and easy, and the situation convenient; —what more can be wanted than perseverance and a small amount of capital expended, in order to render it not only a source of revenue o the proprietor, but a means of conducing to the welfare and permanence of the district ? The races have here as elsewhere been the principal subject of attention lately. Your correspondent will not intrude on your own ground by any remarks about them, but cannot help expressing his pleasure at seeing them so well attended, as, whatever may be the tendency of the sport in more populous communities,. there can be no doubt, in isolated places like those in which we live, almost anything that draws the inhabitants from' their often solitary pursuits, and causes them for a time to mingle with their fellow-men and feel the pleasure of each other’s society, cannot fail to strengthen our fellow-feeling and enlarge our views of life. There appeared to be a larger number than usual of our Clyde friends present, the elegance of whose appointments rather puts us “ up the country.” Even the old family-coach, yel-low-colour, was conspicuous among their equipages, and shone with royal splendour in the blazing sun with which, for the first time for three years, we were favoured at our Spring Meeting.