Notes from Macetown.

Otago Witness, Issue 1752, 20 June 1885, Page 22

Notes from Macetown.

The mining seajon at .v»ncjtown (sava the correapindent of the \V"akn,tiou WaU) may now be svd to b.i closed for the winter Although thorn ha 3 been a very great falling eff in activity a1;a 1 ; Mft-etow-, tJioro is not by any moans s \ch i\ co'respmdinglir a.HviiAn% decieaae in tbe quantity of gol i produced s mi«hf. u<i first be approhouied The" gold prcd'acod ii nikds up ' as follows :— Oz i. Tipperary Compjn.v .. ..1748 Premier Com any .. .. 865 /*ew AH SnMcns Company „ .. SI Gladstone Company .. .. 16 2708 ! This quantity w.iuld havo b en sUU 'urine* i"- ! creased had not tho exceptionally dry ww'her during tho pasts Bummer g'ef.tly int.erfororl wi*ih crushing operationfl, and, aa will bo renlcw^e^p,d, whon the change camo and water was avai'&Wo. the se:wm waa already so ti\r advanced tha* f:oat at Jtlch love's lit this district)- -such as Macetawn - madr i1!i 1 ! c I ielt l>y hindering tbe work. U'.'On thn whole, th-uoforo ] thero ia nothinc; to complain about in thii division rf mining; for th9''llnc:e* a-id die" «• x fr^r.es of wnV- 1 mine- 1 , which sooner "or later must coma to «n end ' without doing any cot»d to tlio pharch»!dew aid <>'.lv iojury to tho distrc'i, tend but to undcrmino p« l Me confldenco in mioitig gonar.illy. The Arrow reefs, of .which hd mi.cii mide la-t year, havo never starfoi work, ami they may be e.r,>ieidered defunct, at least, until name wave of t'xi'.toment again Bwecpa over n speculative jriitliMi public. Alluvi >1 mi: ing is at a v<.ry lav ebb m this locality. A few Chinese, with, Ray, hxlf-n. riozon Kiivod< ou miners, coßsbifcnto the mining piuuliitlon.of M uso town Two pnr*io3 of minet-i a. c doin-.r fil'lv wsll a*;. Bracken's Gully. At Whi^cchapcl flat 1 , tbpr is a popu ation of about 10 miners, and at thn Kwvm about double tfcai number, who, with " coak^to jiupr,'* rabMtting, and gold-oiining, eke out a good, though ■% somewhat precar oud, living. Bsf-idei thc^o tbero aro a few isolated minors scattered over the district woiking as " totters." Maobtown, June 15 The Now All Nations Ins improved in p osports and the strength of tbe shifts is increased to four men. Tho gold haa been get towards the Maryborough boundary. The Tipperaiy is still crushing, the weather being splendid.