Preservation Inlet Goldfields.

Southland Times, Issue 13286, 13 August 1895, Page 3

Preservation Inlet Goldfields.

(from our own correspondent). It is now a month since the steamer was here, and a rough month it has been, snow to a depth of fifteen inches having lain for ten or twelve days. Tram traffic with the Golden Site claim was almost an impossibility, but let us hope that the worst of winter has passed. The Golden Site battery is again temporarily stopped,and feeders and blanket-washeis have knocked off. The stone has pinched out, and I am afraid will not make again; at any rale things in this mine seem to be gloomy.—The Break of Day shaft is still going down on the stone, which is none too good. Longuet’s reef improves as the outcrop gets stripped. I prognosticate a good future for this claim, the reef being very strong and well defined on the surface; but the permanency of the other reefs in the locality at a low level has yet to be proved, as also the question of the gold living down. The roughness of the weather has delayed the erection of the Morning Star battery, but the incoming week should sec it in full swing, the incline tramway being finished and everything ready for landing the stone in the battery. Mr G. P. Hilton, the manager, having severed his connection with the company, comes out by the steamer, and his place is taken by Mr Davies. The work on the Nugget claim is now being pushed ahead by Mr Trent, the dip being taken up and all ready for a start with the level.

Work on the Cuttie Cove claims is being gone on with vigorously, andjwe mayjshortly have some stirring news from that aide of the Inlet to report. Alluvial diggers have had a rough time of it, and no good finds have been made. Mr Mclntyre of Thornbury took with him in the s.s. Invercargill 12,000 feet of red pine from his mill at Kisbee B*y. VVe trust tbis will be the first of regular shipments from the inlet. The timber is exceptionally good, being nearly all fit for cabinet-making. Mr Mclntyre deserves a reward for the plucky manner in which he has overcome all difficulties in the way of establishing a mill in this out-of-the-way place, to say nothing of expense. Glennie had his new camp on Te Whara Beach burnt out last month in the midst of the rough weather, and lost all his tucker, clothes, etc. Cromarty, 9th Aug.