HAWEA AND WANAKA

Otago Witness, Issue 1588, 29 April 1882, Page 13

HAWEA AND WANAKA

' (FROM 'OCa (SWiV,' bOR.B.KSI'ONpBiJT.) ' • ': " , '', '>] '' /,° ',' 'mmROKE, Aprii'22nd. .•' ,-With; the exception' of tfie w6*k p'orformlid bf Mr Maidm'an's peg-drum '-thresher, as - a gener.ih rule .threshing has mot <yet commenced in this district, the 'steam-thresher .being delayed from some unknown ' cause. A crop of wheat<thve«b,ed;hy the^aid peg-drum, | expected to yield ijO, bushels per acre, jha\r averaged 38 bushels' all round! 'During' th'e long spell of '.firie weather the sowing of autumn wheat was much advanced.' •', t "' ■' ' "' ;> ••'-"'> ,; Goploua arid welcome rains have fallen lately; there-. 1 ,by' aiding the 'breakirig-up-,of, new.lai|d{and,i,cosß« ploughing the.fallows. i; j;-i-; ; „•, „ -- A rumour; is current. here tp the .effect' that^the dwelling-house of Mr'Granti, farmer,' of !M6um Barker distrle't, was totally 'destroyed' by fife to-day 1 , arid that 1 .pohe'ofthe contents were saved. 7 " <-"■ :■■>■"•'' 'i Bight opposite the' Oardro'na fore3t reserve, on the; slojpes.of Mount Oriffel,- a party on mo;e af ; Chinamen 'gold, but' whether ,pf a payabte'nature'br'nqt^aih not' in 'a position at present to state! Anyhow, my purpose' 1n this U to put miners hereabouts on tbe b«t Vive, as it is said! that tbe Chinamen' C 6ocasiorialty unearth pennyweight specks;- veritable nuggets <of < gold and, quartz .> amalgamated., Ope, of the party -could not; I ' am informed, refraln-r-jip sp.ealc, in miners!. parlance— from flashing his "share of the gold, it the story ie," as 1 1. believe it is, truo, the finding of the riuggoks privea the existence ,of' auriferous jeefi iri' close proximity to the Chinamen's workings, for. such'gold' hai not travelled ' far down the dribblingt-guliiea in, 'which they work. I^have; heard also, that a party qf two prospectors (canpy men) are prospecting in tho 'vio.injfcy, apd" keeping a.sharp eye on -the movements ofSthe'Ohinkies. - " " ' ' ,' ■"." " " KUoros have been made Gardronaward' for the raising 1 "of ;a local fund to opeii out the Cardr'ona river-bed asi a Koldfield.; This.is J a step in the- right direction.. Offers, pf /liberal subscriptions on. .the part of „a few, gentlemen 'have been made. A 4 \ have ef ten stated, iaithe Witness, the future proßp'erity r bf 'these^districts' miinly depends on the discoviery'of auriferous reefs' in Mount 'Oriff6l ! and "the construction of a p'ermaiient' tailrace up the Cardrona.: .Were these matters' accomplished the welfaroiof our, great .interior, would, be lasting and assured. . , - „ 1