A VOICE FROM WAITE'S PAKIHIS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 155, 29 January 1868, Page 3

A VOICE FROM WAITE'S PAKIHIS.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times and Charleston Argus?) There is a somnolent state -occasioned by a deluge of rain and flood which has devastated our principal dependence, but it will arise from a state of lethargy, and become a flourishing district. At the onset, we depended on Waite's Pakihi, and up to the present, we are disappointed, because the miners started Waite's diggings under a delusion that it would be prospected and well tried ; in a short space of time, the illusion has vanished, when the miners, after spending the money theypossessed and imagined that the remuneration for their labor was a certainty, the elements in the form of rain and flood devastated their grand wrought endeavors, and left them powerless to renew their exertions, being without means for further perseverance. Waite's Pakihi will employ miners for years, but capital is necessary ; the miner with small means must not attempt it, unless the weather remains better than what it has been hitherto ; but the man who can stand • some time, is bound to be well remunerated. We have at the Pakihi an immense amount of wealth in the cement up to the present time untouched. Charleston is before Westport in this. They have erected machinery for a cement they possess" in their district that is not so auriferous as that we have at Waite's Pakihi. But now with the drainage they are about employing in the form of tunnelling, the only way to drain the ground properly, they will succeed, and Waite's Pakihis will attain the eminence of being the largest goldfield in New Zealand. The miners hitherto have had difficulties to contend with, that Victoria never had, namely, stratas of earth that could not be worked properly unless at an enormous outlay, they having no means <of keeping back the water only by these means, either by iron tubes or watertight boxes from surface to bottom.