Notes from Mahakipawa. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1974, 19 September 1889, Page 12

Notes from Mahakipawa. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

On Tuesday last the hard frost disappeared, and heavy rain set in from the N.U., accompanied with a gale of wind. So great was the downpour during the night that Oullen's creek at Mabakipawa was flooded higher than during the last wet weather, and as it rose so quickly a great deal ot damage was the result to many claims— boxes washed away, tools buried, races and paddock filled with old tailings, andalotof extra work created in the creek— thus preventing anything like the usual record in gold returns. Sickness ia rather prevalent ou the diggings ; several cases of typhoid fe*ver are causing uneasiness, and severe colds are numerous. A few of the terrace claims kept their average this week, but the total from the field will be unusually light. A prospecting party have bean for some weeks in Long Valley, a tributary of the Kaituna, and are getting a little gold, but this deep ground requires somuch preliminary work that a few weeks with three or four men make but little impiession. There ia little doubt, as summer sets in, other satisfactory finds will be made in the vicinity,

September 13.