LYELL.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1540, 27 April 1885, Page 2

LYELL.

(From onr own Correspondent) The strike in the United Alpine terminated last Monday. The men set in to work at the reduced rate of wages, namely £3 3s per week. The current rate of wages given in thie claim up to the time of the strike was £3 10s per week. That the men working in the mine deserve a higher rate of wages then it, usually given, there can be no doubt, owing to the wet nature of the ground. The erection of the new machinery and th? different contracts connected with i* will soon be completed, when a continuous crushing may >>c looked for, as it is expected oyoghotonw cam,, be got out 'to keep^o'Vlseiy k fnH work. - A fresh start has boon made in the Crowns, the mine being let on tribute to Accolina and party.

Energetic prospecting is going en in the different mines. A new company has been started on Manuka Flat. A special claim of $.000 acres has been : applied for and both the General ' Government and Buller Council have I granted subsidies towards prospecting I this high tableland Doctor Hector, I who is supposed to be an authority on i the subject, stated it wonld turn oot to to be the Ballarat of New Zealand. This will be the means of testing the high level plateaus, which have never yet been preepeeted, and which ore known to be the feeders of the creeks taking their rioain thai high country from which some very rich patches have been got At djflwrent times. Thanks to t|s> dlif-rgetio member for the district, E. J. $F£k*nor, none of the j monetary votes br oobsidies promised | and placed en tV estimates by the ' Minister of Pablie "Works have been | allowed to laps*, for the want of applying for then. Amongst the most useful works going on is the contract for making a road op New Creek, where a mntnVr _ff the H<athen Chinee hate 'gift in. and see** to be making thotaijpMe at b*me. A large number of tlNtt bave lately commenced mining!* Coot Creek, l»etween the Landciigafid'lnangahaa Junction. Some of -£bem I am creda*.bty> infenned are making the r«spert«hlpanro of £4 per week. ■ About fifty el them are now located there.

After many- attempts fn calling Ur tender* in ItverlO ways, Mr Oray, the Postal flowptary, same overland some Usee -fift and finally decided on toe r^^~lstnßßßaßnU'^y j_TJ|/*'ii-ri week $JiflPrr^r7 rWrtHTpsl daHv between - Inangahua Jonotion and Westport. Newman Broa the con tractors sublet the We*rport end to the outgoing con t factor. Lines, who, when the time table was altered re. fused from religious scruples to run the coach on Sunday's. I once read somewhere of a good little bny who never Stole apples, hut got another little boy to steal them for him. Lines could have got a driver who would not object to Sunday running. It is not worse than taking milk round for the Bishop's tea, cattle hunting, selling beef, or any other innocent amusement of employing ->nes time. However, Newman Bros, have taken op the running, and are piloting their own coaches from Nelson and Westport They seem thorough tradesmen at the ribbons, and keep excellent time. Several distinguished parties have been round from Sleepy Hollow te view the Coast scenery, amongst those who organised a party were Judge Broad and Mr Blundcll of the S'ehon Hr a il. who deserve the thanks of the eenriri iv for bringing the Coast under the _<-*.«*.

of tourists, capitalists and others, more especially the latter gentleman, who has written a most descriptive and graphic account of its scenery and hidden wealth, which he w sending to a large circle of friends in England. The unprecedented fine weather i* somewhat ef a drawback to ground sinking and alluvial mining generally. The Bnller River is lower than it hae been for years, being fordable oo tho different falls for horses. Tlih Westport County Chairman has adopted the system of putting County roads in repair by letting the carting of gravel by the yard, with a reliable man to k*_;i 'alley and apt aad it. Bj/ this method the quantity required to put the read in order is pnt on and not sprinkled as out of a pepper box, as in some pans of your County. This reminds me of a rnmor circulated about the Inangahua Junction, to thit effect. That owing to the protracted absence of the maintenance contractor from that part of the road, ho and Mr Garven, the Engineer, had joined the Sydney Contingent, and gone to s_rht the MahdL April 22nd, 1885: