Not's from Wakatipn. (From Our Own Co-respondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2231, 3 December 1896, Page 20

Not's from Wakatipn. (From Our Own Co-respondent.)

Arrowtown, November 38.— There is nothing '■ of a startling nature to report from our mines. , Everything i« moving along the even tenor of its way. Work vi the quartz mines is being pushed . ahead satisfactorily, ami tie sluicera are as busy as the diminishing supply ot water will allow them to be with, their Chnsfmas wash'ngs up. The Achilles Goldnelds Company, Bullendale, is raising stone that shows a decided improvement upon that sent through the mill these last two months. In addition, several parts of the mine where payable stooe is> known to exist will soon be made accessible, and will thus contribute to the general output of the mine. The Alpine party (Mackin ami mates) have had a trial crushing at the Achille? battery from a lode in Jennings's (-iully, near Skippers Point. Chorazin ami pirty have also taken 20 tons from a lode in the same gully, to be treated at the Leviathan battery when the opportunity occurs— that is, when the Levinthan has fiuished the crushing uowi n progress." At M^cetown boib. the Tipptvary and Glenrock batteries aiv kept going on stone that gives promise of a fai- >fturf. The pro-.p it e\ploitations in the Victor Kmniauue! ■• •• i \h i.tii mines, as well as in the Homeward B .iimi, inw been su-pended pending the report of ilw manager, Mr H. U Palmer. Mr Palmer, it is understood, is returning to London. In alluvial mining enterprise is less marked, though a new venture is now and again heard of. One of these is Messrs Rogers and Tripp's undert king to work the river-bed of the Shotover near ths s-ite of the Gallant Tip Comp lily's battery by the aid of the hydraulic jet. ') my hava a never- j failing supply of water at a head of 4Uoft, which is more than sufficient for the deprh they will have to" go. The work is in an advanced state of progress, everything "being nearly ready for putting the pipes in position, 600 ft of piping having been ' ordered. Both partners in the venture being practical and energetic men, with the means to see the ] work through, and the ground being kuown to be rich in gold, there is little fear but that the undertaking will be the success it deserves to be, and that the enterprising owners will be amply rewarded. Mr H. G. Palmer, until recently in charge 6f the Garibaldi mine, Macetown, qualified my' statement that the assays made were highly satisfactory as totally unwarranted. My informant, holding to the statement made to me on this point, asks Mr Palmer to publish the results of the assays, as what really is "highly satisfactory " depends a great deal upon estimates of working a mine. If Mr Palmer possesses the information and withholds it he cannot expect his ipse disit to be accepted as a refutation of my statement.