LATE MINING.

Otago Witness, Issue 1897, 12 June 1890, Page 20

LATE MINING.

NOTES PROM WAITAHUNA. (Fbom Our Own Correspondent.) June 9.— ln mining affairs the latest item is that some claims along the Wajtahuna river, from Co wen's crossing up to the Gully junction, have been marked out for dredging. That there may be parts of the river's course, both upwards and down to the Molyneux, which would be payable for large works is generally accepted. The water supply at Waitahuna Gully coutinues very short. Sluicers speak of the past 18 months as a time of dryness not known in former years. The late showers only freshen the supply. It will require rains and snows to cause a full soakago in the watersheds and ranges. The sluicing claims continue work as usual, but more water would improve matters. The absence of any future water supply for the neighbourhood casts a dull shadow on the aur ferous clays, drifts, and rock resources of the locality. The place sterns beyond the zone of progress, at present so visible in other centres where water is available. II will be no mere sanguine statement to say that for improved processes there is field enough for trial and experiment here were water available. If would be a wide field if fine gold and sulphides could be mastered profitably outside the crucible.

THE WAITAHUNA QUARTZ MINING COMPANY (LIMITED). A meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Wednesday, aud was attended by Messrs Julius

Hyman (chairman), George Bather, T. M. Wilkinson, James Barclay, and Jameß Li s ton. Applications for several thousand contributing shares in the company were allotted by the board, and an offer by the Norwegian Company to Bupply 80in of water contiguously at a reasonable rental was accepted. Mr Arnold Sturm was appointed mine manager ; aud it was resolved that work should be commenced on the claim at oiicj, the first work undertaken to bs the cutting of a branch channel from the Norwegian Comuany's supply race.

The adjourned annual meeting of the Eldorado Sluicing Company (Limited) was held on Wednesday, most of the shareholders being present. The report and balance sheet was adopted. The present directors (Messra 11. Sclnaadb, J. Brown, W. It. Dow, and J. A. Schlaadt) were re-eleoted for the ensuing year, and Mr J. 11. Hoopor was appointed auditor. The chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that the mine manager's report was very favourable to continuing the works next season. Mr Spring reports that Dr Brown, chairman of tho Bushy Point 3each Dredging Compiny (Limited), cables from London that he has ordered one of the G-wynne's patent invincible hydraulic dredges, and that; the plant v\iil be forwarded within three months. No time will be lost in getting things in readiness for arrival of machinery, and operations at the Bushy Point will commence early in spring. Messrs G-wyune have secured the contract for running the "bar" at the mouth of the Mersoy (Liverpool)", aud we understand three of their patent invincible pumps are now on their way to Otago.

An Adelaide telegram of the 301 h ult. in the Sydney Morning Herald says :—•■ Mr J. V. Parkes, Acting-inspector of Mineß, has juau visited a comparatively new goldfield at Wadnalinua, on the oulnirm run, 25 inilpo south of Mannahill. There are about 50 on the field, but, if profitably worked, employment, could lie found for 5000. On the Birthday clams they have got a very flue pile of stone, carrying 2oz to Boz of gold to the ton. The great drawback is the want of water and machinery. A dam is about to be provided by the Government for domestic supply. Owners of mines should sink for water. There are several defined lines of lode on the field, which may prove payable. Captain Johnson, of BaUanit, has just brought from vW.dnalinga to Adelaide 21o> ot stone containing Boz of gold." Mannahill is a settlement on tho Peteraburg-Oook-burn railway, about half-way between those points. It is over2oi) miles N.W. of Adelaide.

Four thousand five hundred aud twenty-two tons of coal have been shipped from Westport during the week*

LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETINGS. 1 The annual meeting of the Licensing Committe for the Palmerston dictrict was held at the Court House, Palmerston, on Thursday, the sth June. Present : Messrs Alexander Gilmore (chairman), Charles M'Gregor, J. R. Robertson, W. J. Jack, and David Philip. The application of Agnes Crawford for an accommodation license was refused. The application of Agnes Crawford for a publican's license for the Alexandra Hotel was granted. A renewal of an accommodation license to Griffiths Roberts for the Pukeiteviti Hotel was granted.

The annual meeting of the Licensing Committee for the Merton district was held at the Schoolhouse, Seacliff, on Saturday, bhe 7th day of June. Present : Messrs John Porteous (chairman), Ross, D. O. Connell, and James Guild. The renewal of the license of James De Clifford for the Seacliff Hotel was granted.

The annual meeting of the Licensing Committee for the Dunback district was held at the Courthouse, Macraes, on Monday, the 9th June. Present : Messrs C. S. Hay (chairman), James Hartstonge, sen., Peter Gifford, Laurence Flynn, and James Hartstonge, jun. The following applications for new publicans' licenses were granted : William Dowling, Commercial Hotel, Nenthorn; Patrick Talty, St. Bathans Hotel, Nenthorn; Charles Swanson, Shamrock Hotel, Nenthorn; Henry A. Wicks, Miners' Arms Hotel, Nenthorn ; Thomas Gilchrist, Nenthorn Hotel, Nenthorn ; Edward Griffin, Royal Hotel, Macraes ; Robert Wilson Hood, accommodation license, Pigroot Hotel. Renewals of publicans' licenses were granted to the undermentioned persons: — Thomas Stanley, Stanley's Hotel, Macraes ; John Spain, United Kingdom Hotel, Macraes ; John Jordan, Junction Hotel, Dunback ; John M'Lew, Carriers' Arms, Dunback ; Nicholas Maloney, Reefers' Club Hotel, Nenthorn; Patrick Ryan, Golden Crown Hotel, Nenthorn (12 o'clock) ; William Pacey, accommodation license, Waihemo Hotel.