Several parties of Chinamen have of late brought in several nice samples of gold (writes the Nokomai correspondent of the Southland Times), and I have been told on good authority that one or two of the said parties have for sometime past been making over £i per week per tiiafa. The Triumph, his; made. another start. The Golden Age—M'Kinley and party are satisfied with their dirt, and continue to get it out. Thompson and party, in the gorge, are bringing in a water race to work their wheel aid pump, • both of which are. in position. The Pioneer Company's claim is once more at » standstill —cause: swamped out; reason: pump not large enough to cope with the water.
SPOKTING.
