Notes from Wakatipu.

Otago Witness, Issue 2087, 22 February 1894, Page 12

Notes from Wakatipu.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Aruow, February 17.— Things in our principal mines are going on in a satisfactory manner— that ia, satisfactory to shareholders— without any new or exciting discoveries being made, and there is therefore little to report or comment upon by the scribe, who is supposed to keep the public posted up in the mysterious working of mines, upon which the welfare of the colony depends in no small degree, and that of the lucky— or otherwise—shareholders in a proportionately larger or smaller degree.

The Premier mine, favoured by a constant and large water supply, is keeping its 20-head battery going day and night, and no time is being lost in pushing ahead developing works in the mine. Ihe Tipperary mine manager, Mr W. J. Stanford, is abotft to undertake a number of works in the mine tendered for similar to those recently called for in the Premier. Mine managers are very naturally anxious to show the greatest possible amount of work done for the money expended, and one of the most irksome features of the position is the relation in which he finds himself placed with hia workmen. Mr Stanford has shown much tact— more perhaps than his directors will credit him with— in doing the most in this respect for the shareholders whose financial salvation he has undertaken to work out. In private mining enterprise things are, as might naturally be expected, of a mixed nature. Some are doing well, and others have to exist upon hope in the meantime. However, the proportion of men who are doing fairly well— that is, those who are making from small mining wages upwards —is probably as great as on any other field in Otago.