HAVELOCK

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10465, 1 October 1894, Page 2

HAVELOCK

Sept. 21. MINING. , / Tie satisfactory news at last reaches uja lhat one of the many quartz reefs knowfn io exist on the Waksmarina is, to /have' a lair test. The “ Otis ” machjilWy erected . )n the “ Empire City’s ” mme has started crushing, and so far the prospects appear ; encouraging, the plates allowing nicely for 4 jold. As a month’s trial is to be given' i before a washing up, the results rest in the future, and we/ can only hope that they will be such as will establish confi-' deuce for capitalists to in rest in other speculations vfhich will develop the resources of this old and neglected goldfield. • GENERAL! i '’’Judging from appearances an outsider would say that Havelock is looking up. A new building is being erected for a cabinetmaker and upholsterer’s business; anew baker has just started here, making now ■ four competitors for the staff of life supply* ftnd a whisper has gone forth that the Peloms Guardian is to have a rival, also Ifc has been announced that a prospectus is shortly to bo ismed for the purchase, of the s.s. Akaroa, or some such similar Steamer, to run a weekly se .vice, to Wal- -■ ,'Ungton. The prospects of future advantages may be deferred, but the fact of a weekly steamer from Havelock to Weir,. { ijngton is not far distant, aad if the i ■sttlers themselves do not tike the matter ' |ip, others outside will, as the increase of jroductioh in the Sounds must demand increased facility for placing the produce in the market, and obtaining supplies. As co-operation is the order of the present t'ay, there is no reason why merchants should not co-operate with producers, and ■ thus give; them every facility for cheap transit, by running a steamer as joint i/;oek property. THE WEATHER, iSpring seems at last to have set ie The cold weather we have lately experienced has been exceptional for the time of ylar, and Mount Stokes, so late as this g. wjek, has worn a mantle of snow. : -jt