WAKATIPU MINING NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1861, 22 July 1887, Page 12

WAKATIPU MINING NOTES.

(Feom Ouh Own Ooebespondent.) Aeeow, July 19.

Applications for Holdings Continue— The Kaw-

arau Tunnel Project.

Applications for licensed holdings and special claims still continue to be made. Hitherto these applications were confined to the Upper Shotover district, but now they extend to the Kawarau, where Mr T. G. Peafce has applied for a special claim of two miles of the river bed. This ground comprises the Island Block, near

r ■ - '■■■ — ; ■ Victoria bridge, and is without exqeption; the most legitimate mining spec, in this district. It has agitated many a mining mind since the early days of the rash to these parts. A- tunnel, 18ft by 18ft and 45 chains long, to drain about two miles of ■ the river bed is projected ; ; ' the river to be diverted through the tunnel, and the ground to be worked by -sluicing* Ihe work* are estimated' to cost £35-.000 ' ■

has had a few, s^g^^teaTviptiQiDfi. ' isfie v ijpM«P supply ,£ok,tlie electric !( japp>ratsia faljjnjgishqrtj, the steam , engine.; ha4; to be Btarte.d,.,j»nd latterly the, Weight, of §now v broke th& cqndubtiing "wir,eß, .but \ a4dition# wires ' being* jn\t' up, the same mishap is not likely 'to occur again.'' „ ' , - ..MWpMancojas;,... '. („ ,i M'Grath, g&under^ aad,par^y,^n the* "claiJii in the Shptoiypr, river, are progressing well with the erection of tbsit water wheel, and expect to begiti work in their claim in a month, or so.

Mr George Robertson has discovered a new quartg reef aj Deep creek Which, is 3ft wide at the Outctop, Mid snows r^ •• . „<>/• Mr Sew, fiojr^yhas prominently ideO* tified himself with mining fen^erfarM ,iti this district) applies fokfi. special blaife of jHo acres in eitgtit at BigJß« Artfei t>oin\ Shotroyier. l ,T)^^is,th6 grdririd to which attention was directed by your correspondent some time since as the most likely ground for payable reworking with the hydraulic jet" elevator. ' '• Messrs R. Neil, H; C. Oamerpri, and A. M'Shain also apply for a special claim ''.Bl'tWß miles extent on the Shafcopfef lr|ret' UHdejr' the style of the " AtWoSphfric tjfedfin'g.tfqpj^'any,',' TUB' gifb^ihu willed tor extends from Deejs cree,k^9, Maori Point,, ■:.• «•. i.:y ; 'l.;». v.l 5i ■ Themapy'.fre^h.^pnljcaMbns,- tp^ji^ar VnblH keen^ c^jpetition, in.tne" Wiiiden's' Court for gßQund,marfcedodt by several applicants,' and numerous requests for cancellation of bid holdings left unworked, indicates a healthy revival in mining in !all the divisions in which it is practised here— ;viz., river and terrace workings, quartz reefing, tunnelling, sluicing, &o.