WARDENS' REPORTS.

West Coast Times, Issue 211, 23 May 1866, Page 2

WARDENS' REPORTS.

Mr Commissioner Sale has placed the Wardens' Reports, received at his office, at our disposal, and we make tho following extracts from them : —

Mr. Warden Revell reports, on the 19th May, from the Grey, as follows :— - Population, about 5000. A slight rush to one of the terraces on the New River, north of the Teremakau.

The weather latterly has been so remarkably fine that mining operations, in some instances, have been brought to a standstill, in/ consequence of the great scarcity of water, especially on the terrace workings, and several of the water races are perfectly dry.

The survey of the new race from the llohonui River, Lake Brunner, to Maori Gully, Arnold District, has been completed. This race will be about twenty miles in length, and will command all the terraces in the neighborhood. During tho past fortnight a small rush (about 100 men) was made to some of the terraces on the New River, north of the Teremakau, and about four or five miles from the coast. Tho prospects are small, but the applicants for water races in that locality expect to make from £8 to £12 per week out of their ground.

Mr Warden Schaw writes from Kanieri, on the 15th instant, as follows : —

Estimated population, 3000 miners ; 500 others engaged. I again visited the Ho Ho on Saturday last, and was surprised to find so great a change in so short a time, as it is not much more than a month ago since I was on the spot.

Quite a township lias been formed at tho small paddock, there being now about thirty stores and a great number of diggers' tents. "" Several Dutchers' shops, with an excellent supply of beef and mutton, attract especial attention, while the storekeepers have not been behind hand in tastefully fitting up their shops for the convenience and accommodation of the public. Business appeared brisk and flourishing. I started from the south-west point of the large paddock, aud followed tho sup. posed lead through several deep gullies, and ovor many made terraces, to the south end of the small paddock. I found miners at work along the whole lino ; none of their shafts were bottomod ; yet some were down between fifty and sixty feet. The lead is very narrow and difficult to trace. I cannot say at present whether it will continue straight on in the direction of Hokitika, or swervo and run down to Tucker Flat, but a few weeks will decide the point. The weather, for the last fortnight, hns beeu all that could de desired, •