CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 199, 17 February 1866, Page 3

CROMWELL.

(from our own correspondent.)

The sluicing claim of Greaves and Wilson, half a mile above the Kawarau Gtorge bids fair to prove that the ground )f that district is a peer in richness. Jn Friday last a washing up took place jf seven or eight week's sluicing, and the yield amounted to within a trifle of £450. Hie claim has not been many months jpened, and judging by the past yiekk some thousands of pounds sterling may bi expected to come out cf it. The next jiound above is that of Iloberts, Kitehingliatn and party, which has not as yet been subjected to the sluicing process, but twt lirect tunnels have been driven into it luring the last few weeks, also several 3'oss ones, in order to test the grouni. effectually, the result proved in ever j.ue satisfactory. At this claim en Saturday night kit jue of {lie most providential escapes frcn .loath that could well be imagined to. 1. [dace. The neighboring claim is tL< Bailarat, the owners of which are a present engaged in sluicing headings—taey having permission to use the content: of Messrs Greaves and Wilson's race in addi ion to their own. k'oo:i af'.e midnight, the effects of the water powe; was such that tin enormous mass o earth suddenly gave way. The debrii was carried over the Bailarat tail-rec< and deposited in massive piles agains t'.ie claim of l\ul erts and Kitchinghcir lilllng all the drives to their furthcrmi i. extremity. Had the event occurred a fev hoius earlier, all the shareholders wouh inevitably have been smoth'red or crushc< to death in the various tunnels. A larg amoun; of labor will be necessary to gi the drives once more into working order but as it was an accident which no 'ore sight could have averted, the company seem to view the event in a philosophy manner, and '■ make the best of a ba<

job." The Ballarat Company, Laving for r. few days the use of Greaves and Wilson': race arc sluicing headings at a most astounding price, and the extraordinary hivoc made in the ground by the powerfi 1 stream could not but bo admired bj anyone desirous of seeing the auriferom "round of the Province made the best of. It is not in the least improbable that a company will soan be formed to bring m a largo water race from the Nevis to worl. the high terraces Ira-ting the Kawarar a> far down as the ground already nun tioacd. S A short distance above the Bal'.arat : s . the Mounta : n<;er claim, which was on'y : opened some nine or ten weeks past. , The company have had to encounter much more difficalty than they anticipated. In I cutting a sali-race boulders of enormous size stool incessantly in the way. and the 1 hour and expense in blasting them have b en incredibly annoying—but the sore tisk is about being completed, and ins fortnight hence sluicing will be actively commenced when this persevering com Ipany will no doubt be rewarded.