Mahakipawa

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 2, Issue 81, 30 October 1891, Page 2

Mahakipawa

(Prom Our Own Correspondent.)

Tuesday, October 27,

None of the pumping claims are yet able to work. The King Solomon have three feet of water in the shaft yet and the other claims are going down very slowly, some of them hardly moving the water. I think the fact of nothing but clear water running down the creek is the principal cause of all the claims taking so long to pump out. The flood disturbes the bed of the creek and when there was plenty of muddy water coming down it soon stoppedr the damage. There is no one working in the terraces up the creek, being iike the majority of the miners here flooded out. I have been doing a fossick up the creek, but found several places where a man might discover an odd pennyweight protected, it seems to be the practice here (when men see a better show) to get their old claim protected and peg out a new one. It seems te be unjair to let claims remain idle month after month, while the owners are getting gold in another claim, practically locking up the country, this is one of our grievances that I hope the New Mining Act will alter. The old Right Hand Brand is being fossicked over again, quite a crowd of our water logged miners working there. Some coarse gold was brought down from the head of the Maori gorge last week, one party

getting a nugget 3oz 15dwts and another claim getting a 3oz piece. Rush and parties claim (called the Waihi) is being worked over again, it seems it was only worked on a false bottom, and the present occupiers are driving under the old workings and I hear it is paying them fairly well. The Hibernian paid another five pound dividend on Saturday. I expect it will be the end of the week before many of our wet claims get to work. The Cullensville Amateurs give' their entertainment in aid of Mb Maroni on the 7th November anc judging by the practising going bn] should say it will be one of the bes entertainments ever given here both vocally and instrumentally. Miss M, McMillan, Miss Cooper, Messrs Allnutt, Marenzi, Allington, Hughan, Neilson, and Hancock, (instrumentalists). Messrs G. Mathieson, J. Cox, C. H. Cox, Regan . and several other vocalists have kindly given their service. Mr J. Watts will give one of his favourite recitations. The Bachelors Ball is much talked of and the committee evidently intend to spare no expense or trouble to make it the most brilliant hop we have had in Cullensville.