LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 370, 7 April 1876, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(From our own correspondent.)

Another St. Patrick's Day has passed since I last reported myself to your readers.The inhabitants of this district did not allow t to pass unnoticed, Queenstown's regatta,and the Mauri" Point races, being centres of attraction for the holiday which was generally observed throughout the entire district.

An uafortunate boat accident near Queenstown bereaved two wives of their husbands, and two families of their heads by the death, of two men named Hodges and Casper—one leaving a widow and live children, and the other leaving a widow and ODe child—in. both instances without any provision for the future. A third man was saved by holding on to an oar until helo arrived.

In my last I alluded to some reports of rich finds in reefs at Mauetown, I am now in a position to state that they (the reefs) are much better than even those reports represented them to bo. One reef, very well developed, between four and six feet widgj running north-westerly and south-easterly, has been proved, by a crushing of two ton 3 of stone, which gave a cake of lOoza. 15dwta. Th-3 reef is called the Homeward Bound, and seems to deserve the name. Another line of reef, sittvtted on the same spur, but varying several degrees in its course from that of the Homeward Bound, was discovered by two men named Hull aiid There are at least two good claims already proved on it—that of the pro~pi.-o.tors aiid No. 1 south or" we3t. In the latter, which belongs to seven shareholders/five tons of stone are raised tor grass, which, it is calculated, will yield one hundred ounces of gold. .Some of the stone which I have seen from this claim is really magnificent, as is also that obtained in the prospectors' claim, which has now become the property of H. J. Cope, . Several shares in both lines of reef have changed hands on lbs strength of appearances ; butlhavenotheai-d of any doing so since crushing -commenced. So well did the stone look that as much ai £2OO was obtain- d for one-twelfth share in the Homeward Bound, and, if report speaks true, the other line of reef has no shares for sale at any reasonable price. Be that as it may, the show is really • splendid. I know that one-seventh share changed hands before the reef was sunk upon it all for £3O. This spe.'iks strongly in favor of confidence in the uliimale results. The reefs already opened lie rather high, so this winter will interfere with their development. Next spring will inaugurate a promising season for Macetowh, and, in fact, the districts.

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Stbangeos paying a visit to Dunedin ara often at :v loss to know what is the best establishment to visit for the purchase of drapery and clothing. Herbert, Haynes.and Co.'offer special advantages to the public that can ba :uet with nowhere else in the city. They keep at all times the largest and best assorted stock of every class of goods, imported direct fi'dm the leadirg manufacturers and warehousemen at home, which, being bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of such sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every irticle in stock is marked at a fixed price for ready money, from which no abatement is ever made, so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same prices as the best judges. Their terms are—net cash, without discount or'reductions of any kind.—' Aett.