CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 202, 10 March 1866, Page 3

CROMWELL.

(FROM OUR OWN' COURESrON'nENT ) la my correspondence some three or four weeks past, I noted that at Five Mile Creek, a number of miners were doing well. I also penned that the locality was on the northern side of the Clutha, to the left of the main road leading to Albert Town, also that, the neighborhood was universally auriferous—capital with enterprise only being necessary to open up.a very extensive and remunerative goldfield. Since that time I have paid the district two visits, and have received indubitable proof of the correctness of my remarks. For a considerable period past, the up-country journals of Otago have been compelled to rest satisfied with giving mining intelligence of an unsatisfactory nature, and in each consecutive issue giving only com. monplace detaile of individual workings ■in old established localities. It is of little pnblic concern that Jack Jones and Patrick O'Flannagan divided twenty pounds for last week's work, in Betty Martin's Gully, Tuapeka, or that the richness of the quartz-reefs in the Lake District may be judged of by the extraordinary fact of a young girl, four years of age, having on Christmas Day picked up from amongst the street stones of Queenstown, a piece of quartz containing not less than three specks of gold. Such has been of late the mining intelligence of Otago, and all that it served was to prove that the Goldfields have not died out, and the miners not left the country or turned shepherds. New fields have not been opened in any of onr auriferous districts, and most of the enterprise that has been exercised has been so in making the best of the. known auriferous spots. However, I am in a position to state positively that a new goldfield on a small scale has been opened at Five Mile Creek.

During the past fortnight the gullies for several miles further on have bean prospected, and found one and all to contain gold in sufficient quantities to pay well for sluicing. These gullies course from the high ranges towards the flat bordering the Clutha, and at various distances from each other, there are several large large creeks, also coursing from the same ranges, out of which water

races may be directed to any of the adjacent terraces or gullies. -. Thomas and Tippet have just completed a large race from the Bannockbum to the auriferous terraces on the western side of the Kawarau, and Molyneux, and breasting the town of Cromwell. The race has been very appropriately named the "Cromwell Irresistible Water Race." The proprietors have erected a large dam for provisional purposes, and to all ap-peai-ance the proprietors of the under taking are likely to make the immediate neighborhood of Cromwell a scene of extensive sluicing operations. Mr Horrigan, in a spirit of commendable rivalry, has so improved his race and dam as to render it no mean rival to the vaunted "Irrestible."

| Politically, the district has been imj moderately jnbilant over the election of Mr Julius Yogel and Captain O'Neill, as representatives for the Goldfields in the General Assembly. In these two gentlemen the Goldfields have two representatives thoroughly capable of properly advocating their interests and promoting their welfare.