Notes from Wakatipu.
(From Our Oww Correspondent.)
AKBCnVTOWN, August. 50. — The time for getting ready for work has once more come round, and race-cleaning and repairing is the order of the day with those who are blessed with property of that kind. The fro.it is disappearing with gratifying celerity, and as a consequence the water supply is first-class. IE only the gold were more plentiful than it is, a bright future might be preclicLed for the "Wakutipu. Hovvever, as it is, we hold our own, au>l mining is still an it-em in the number of our industries.
Late news from the "Westralia and New Zealand Gold Explorers (Ltd.). Macetown, has ii that stone of a promising character has been met with, though nothing can at present be s?id with certainty as to its actual value or extent.
The Sholover Gold Mining Company (late Gallant Tipperary) have of late been making better progress with their machine level owiu^ to the softer nature of. the rock passed through than was the case a few months ago. The tunnel is now upwards of 450 ft in, and ttone may be struck {my day.
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Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 18
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190Notes from Wakatipu. Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 18
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