WAITAHUNA.

Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 13

WAITAHUNA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRBSPOHDEXT.) , August 2nd. !

There has been much wintry damp and cold weather during the past month, also some mild dull days Snow fall on the evening of the 16th, and w.is ■ followed by continuous wet till the 22nd, when it moderated, and was frosty and fair till the 28th, when continuous westerly rain fell from 7 am. till evening tt'.d all streams were flooded, tho river being higher than has occurred for somo few years. Damage was done to roads, and also to the railway embankment. Tho mining claims also have suffered damage, both at, Havelock Flat and in the Gully. Some of the dwellimrs at Havelock had the water some inches deep in them Fair weather has prevailed the past two daye. With so much wet weather the lands have not been favourable for farm work generally. The sloppy , state of the ground would prevent ploughing and other preparations for seed-Bowing. The roads are in a very baa state at present, and not favourable for ' carting corn to railway. Tho late flood is looked ' uvjon by some as a precursor of some greater ones ■ which will follow according to the usual rule. There has 1 been an absence of floods in the river for somo time, and now the reverse may bo looked for. A sliffht shock of earthquake, preceded by a dull rumbling, was noticed here at 7.35 a.m. on the 19th ' The late jumping of registered ground resulted in • damages being awarded to the »mpunt of £5, and . costs of Court Work goes on steadily in the mining: wav, but many will be Borne days, if not weeks, repairing tho flood damages. The Extended Comptny Blill prospect by driving on the bed-rock. A memorial to the House of Representatives re reserving certain ' unsold lands up the Waitahuna River has received ' numerous signatures. I learn that the land in quostion is intersected with gullies, yielding gold-indicating ■lodes in the neighbourhood. Such is also the character of tho lands already sold in that neighbourhood as pastoral deferrcd-paymant and agricultural lands. Looking at the future of mining, the disposal of the s»id area is thought by Borne few to h*ve been an impolitic act, seeing that tho land is intersected with quartz lodes of, pc-haps, limited width, but judging from the gold obtained in the numerous gulliep, containing rich patches which would induce Bonrch therefor in due time, when further experience of reefs is gained in the Waipori district. Wide lodes are easily recognised ; but narrow ones may be overooked, rich or poor.