Notes from Wakatipu. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2010, 1 September 1892, Page 15

Notes from Wakatipu. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Arrow, August 27.— The sensation of the week, has, of course, been the gold robbery at the office of the Sew Hoy Big Beach "Dredging Company, and so long as the burglar or burglars remain undiscovered conjecture is likely to run wild, and many innocent people will have to suffer from wrongful suspicions. So far no clue or particle of evidence has come to light, and the whole affair is still the deep mystery it was from the first. The company offer a reward of LSO for the recovery of the gold, and in consequence some treasure troving is going on. As all the particulars of the occurrence are already before the public, it is nouse to recapitulate well-known tales. It is certainly rather strange that so much gold should have beeu kept in an isolated building in charge of a lad who slept a mile away from the premises. Probably now when the company has been taught a lesson they will make a change in their policy. The attention of parties out of employment may be directed to the Dart Valley, head of Lake Wakatipu, where gold has been known to exist almost from the early days of the gold rush. Owing chiefly to the want of a passable track the locality was never in favour with the miners. 'I his has now been supplied by a good bridle track leading up this rather dangerous river to where it becomes readily fordable when at its summer level. However, there are other difficulties than that of locomotion to contend with, and none but experienced miners used to working amongst and

saving fine gold can be recommended to seek their , fortuue at the Dart river, where most of the gold is fine, and even very fine, while to make matters worse it' is accompanied > with heavy layers of manganese sand, making it exceedingly difficult to extract the fine gold. On the other hand the attraction is the abundance of timber for all mining purposes as well as for fuel and building, and also a fair supply of native game in the bush and trout in the river. A rush has once more set in at- the Crown' Terrace, the continuation of the lead having to all appearances been picked up, so that after a\\ the gold will not be confined to an unaccountable patch, but will be found as other similar deposits have been in Otago to be the continuation of a' lead broken up and broken off rather abruptly,, but still a lead or rather the remnants of a lead. •