MINING INCIDENTS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 580, 13 November 1869, Page 2

MINING INCIDENTS.

TUB ARAHTJRA. A reporter for the W. C. Times, who was lately despatched to the Arahura, states that he has been twenty-five miles up the river, and has made every possible search for anything like a party successfully mining. He firmly believes the gold is in the district; but would not advise a rush until more is known, as he has been unable to find any trace of a party working " a pennyweight to the dish, with five feet stripping."

THE GHEY DISTRICT. A correspondent of the Argus reports that there has been some excitement caused by a rush to Mossy Creek in the Upper Grey district. Mossy is a tributary of the Grey, about three miles from the Little Grey junction, and has been opened for some three years. The present rush is situated on one of the spurs immediately over Tape Line Terrace. The names of the applicants for the extended claim are M'Connor, Powell, Johnson, and Murphy. Two tunnels have been taken in, in one of which prospects varying from one to three grains to a dish have been obtained; the depth of wash-dirt is about three feet. Those acquainted with the ground believe it to be a patch. A small rush has taken place to ground which was mentioned about a fortnight ago, lying between the Saltwater Creek and the old lagoon lead. Particulars are not to hand.

Satisfactory news has been received from the Golden Hill daim which adjoins the famous Moonlight claim. The miners have come across two quarts reefs, one of them three feet wide, on the opposite side of the creek from the Moonlight claim. A piece of quartz, large enough to be easily carried in the hand, was knocked off the reef and brought to town. It was tested by experienced persons in a mortar, and gavo a first-rate prospect, fine gold being seen in abundance. THE TAIPO REEF. An application has been made for a prospecting area, by the prospectors of a quartz reef, situated 15 miles up the Taipo, and altogether about 35 miles from Hokitika. The application was made by Mr Joseph Blake, Mining Surveyor, and Mr AYeyinouth Roberts, who have had men prospecting in the above locality for some time back. Mr Blake states that a well defined quartz spur two feet thick, and another nine inches thick, both gold bearing, are near the reef, and also a large reef from twenty to thirty feet wide is close to the above, but as yet no gold has been discovered in the latter. GOLDFIEI/DS IK MEXICO. I', 13 reported that goldtields, one hundred and twenty miles long, exceeding the California mines in richness, have been discovered near Colima, North-western Mexico, and that diggers are gathering there in large numbers.