MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1506, 25 September 1880, Page 15

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

A few miners (says the Western Star) are digging and prospecting at Sunnyside, Waian, one party in the vicinity of Blackmonnt Hill. The mining population numbers about 10 or 12. As far as we can learn, none of them are making much more than tucker, but there is a likelihood of the prospecting leading to something better. We hear that there are lome parties working a considerable distance back from the Waian River : should they find payable gold, the workings are likely to be more lasting than the beach-diggings on the fiver.

A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, Mr James Eeid, of those interested in the derelopment of Longwood, will be held at the Town Hall on Saturday evening, with a view to procuring a small battery for testing pur poies. The object is one that will doubtless enlist the sympathy of all who have a direct or indirect interest in the Longwood.

We are informed by Mr J. R. Gascoigne (sayi the Tnapeka Times)that he has disposed of all his interest in the Wetherstones Cement Gold-mining Company at a satisfactory figure. Although Mr Gascoigne has severed his connection with the claim his name has been so intimately associated with, we are pleased U> learn that he is not retiring from mining speculation. He has a-ehare in the Golden Gate claim, which is about to be prospected, and, from bis knowledge of the ground, we ihonld say that his connection with it is a sign that it bids fair to turn out well.

We are informed (says the New Zealand Times) by a gentleman who has very recently Tiflited all the workings in the Terawhiti district where gold prospecting has been carried on, that the reports of large or even payable finds of gold there are grossly exaggerated. It is true that several parties are fossicking about in the creeks in the vicinity, bnt nothing in the shape of payable gold has as yet been obtained, though the colonr is to be found in all directions. Our informant, who has had some experience on the West Coast, South Island, in the good old diggine days, describes the track to Terawhiti as "sufficient to frighten any " new-chum," or one unaccustomed to such rugged paths, and it is therefore with considerable hardship that those men who are now there hare the necessaries of life conveyed to them.