ARROWTOWN.

Otago Witness, Issue 921, 24 July 1869, Page 7

ARROWTOWN.

The Arrowtown correspondent of the Dunstan Times writes regarding mining matters in that district as follows :— The frost has been very severe these lost few days, and mining operations, excepting on the flats and river bedß, are uninterrupted. The bed of the Arrow River, near its conjunction with the Kawarau, is affording employment to a considerable number of men, and some very good patches of gold have been struck. Messrs Trueman and Co. who are about working the riverbed upon a well organised prinoiple, commence operations in a few days, a short distance above the township j that gold exists there in large quantities there is little doubt, and whoever is successful enough to reach the bed-rock will be handsomely rewarded. The coal- pit between the Nevis and Morven Ferries ib now being systematically worked, and the black diamonds arc obtainable at something like three pounds per ton, by no means a cheap rate, however, when we come to consider the general state of affairs. Tho enormous charges at the punts aro a great barrier to these coals coming generally into consumption, and must necessarily very much interfere with the operations of the lessees of the pit.