Kawarau Notes. (From a Correspondent)

Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 29 January 1902, Page 22

Kawarau Notes. (From a Correspondent)

January 22

On Monduv afternoon a very heavy thunderstorm was experienced heie, and judging from tilt- height the river rose (6ft) during the night t must have been raining very hard at the '.id of the lake all day Sunday. Its effect lias boen to send a big, volume of drift travelling, compelling the Meg and Annie to discontinue dredging on Tuesday mght. This is to be deplored, because when she started on Sunday night th<=> duft was at a minimum, as the river was getting nicely settled at lur summer level Howe\er, she is 'owerinjj agsun rapidly, but it takes some time foi the drift to settle"

The Upper Magnetic dredge has made rapid jy egress ug Uie ii\t-i. suite uue uWxted. £*■

S3 i % W \" !T S lh l Me fT and Annie dredge, and by Saturday night will be safely moored on the Annie Queen claim. Mr D. *M'lntoa£ and his crew had a nasty u d arduous bit ofi work getting the dredge through what 13 known T-nn« \f r ?P lds \, £ ear the boundary of the Upper Magnetic and Gentle Annie claims there is an enormous rock in the centre of the river leaving but a very narrow channel, just wide enough to let a dredge pa 83.8 3. As may be imagined, the current tears through here with, great velocity and power, and it was an anxious and arduous time experienced getting the dredge safely through. On the Gentle Annie dredge matters are looking ship-shape and Bristol fashion under the able superintendence of Mr John Stark Last week the laddei was slapped and rivetted, the tab,es all but completed, and now he is ready id the engine and boiler fittings. They are exi.ee ted on tlio ground every day, when the hoiisinij-in will b,, finished I fancy that the erection of the machinery oa tins dredge from) slait to fimali will constitute a record for speed.