NOTES FROM GOLDEN BAY.

Colonist, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7831, 8 January 1894, Page 3

NOTES FROM GOLDEN BAY.

[By Bamblbs.] Messrs Beetham and party, who a?e in* terested in the Parapara Hydraulio Sluioing and Mining Company, are spending xaocey freely in developing the propeitles they have acquired, and everyone wishes them success in their enterprise. The well-known Glen Gyle olairn, West's, and M'Grane'a are all now included ia the ground they intend to work. They have eeoared a thoroughly praotioal miner in their manager, Mr Guthrie. Tenders have been let for a large tunnel, and others are invited fcr forming a race pipe track, and a dray roid io Appo's Gully. They intend oarrying on sluicing on a moat extensive soale, but it will be some months, before the preliminary works are completed. If they are successful it wll give a great impetus to the mining industry in the Collingwood district, for similar oompaniea are Bure to follow in their wake. THE HEATHEN OHINEB. Several Chinamen hava found their way to the diggingß at Oollingwood, and bb a proof that they are finding the precious metal, it may be stated that one of their number daring the Ohristmaß week was io the township, and his ohamois leather bag contained gofd whioh was valued by those who were permitted to feel its weight, to be worth quite one hundred pounds sterling. BICH SPECIMENS. The other day a miner was showing at Gollingwood a couple of very rich specimens of gold-bearing stone which he had found at the Quartz Ranges. From time to time for years back occasional finds pf splendid specimens Have been made in the same locality. It was there Mr M'Guire found the nugget which was exhibited at the Bu,n.ed4n. J^xblW; tion, a nugget which, if I remember rightly, yielded. 3Qoes of pure gold, abd had only a small piece of quartz; attached at one end. The Quarts Ranges is evidently a field where oapital might to advantage be spent in prospecting, for if the reef, from which these rich specimens have evidently come, was discovered, there would be a handsome return for the investment. ENTERPRISING MINER. The manner in which Mr Joseph Benson bjas ses to work to develop his claim (formerly known as Druggan's) is a credit to his industry, enterprise, and ingenuity. To work the face of the claim on a more entensive soale, a.nd with a greater force of water, he obtained six hundred feet of iron piping from the Anchor Foundry, a movable elbow, and two brass nozzles, jhe elbow did not work with the ease desired, but the known skill at the above mentioned Foundry will no doubt soon rectify that. Mre Benson is quite as enthusiastic a miner as her husband. an,d the bright glides i«a her eyes 'as she 'pans off her dish shows she has caught the gold fever. Their claim has so far justified their anticipations, and it is to be hopsd that it will lqng continue, to do so, for the industrious and worthy couple deserve every success By the way it should be mentioned that in the hour of trouble and sickness Mrs Benson has always proved an invaluable Mend to her neighbors, and none will rejoice more than they if the claim should prove to yield not only a comfortable living, but something for declining age. '• ' : ' • SIMISEB AND SETTLEMENT." Mr R. R. Fellowea' Bawmill at Biverdale is one of the largest and most complete in the Nelson provincial district. His mill and that of Mr William Grant, at Kaituna, of tea bring a couple, and sometimes three, vessels at a time to oollingwoo3, wbioh give a muoh livelier appearanoe to thai port. The great drawback to these enterprises is'^he state of the roadi. Now' the Road Board and County Coanoil have not lands lor the work reeaaaary, but ag the vital part of the Government policy i 9 to place people on the land, surely some grant will be quickly forthcoming to sid settlement in suoh growing and important districts as Riverdale and Kahuna. IiONO WITHHELD.. Thousands of ounces "of gold havo been obtained, B^nce. the Oolliogwood goldfield was jjrqt started, and hundreds of tans of ooal have been exported from the same district, yet the, real discoverers of these sources of wealth have never yej reoeived, a penny io the shape oi reward. If the official record" are seatohed, it is questionable whether the same can be said of any other distriot in the Colony. It is to he hoped, before Messrs Ellis and Japes " pan out," they will reoeive their long wihheld reward, whioh was hardly earned. Perhaps the new M.H.R. for the district will get the circumstances inquired into. " ' . * ! - - ' i