WOODSTOCK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 671, 24 June 1882, Page 2

WOODSTOCK.

[from our OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] Upper Woodstock, June 17. The rush is steadily increasing, and every day brings new arrivals. Johnston’s party bottomed on payable gold last week, with six feet of washdirt* which will average 3 to 4 dwts to tlie load. The “ Oxfords ” bottomed a duffer oil the claim joining Johnston’s on the west, but have started to sink another shaft further to the east, and will bottom in a few days. A report was circulated that a Getman had bottomed far down the lead, and was getting ISdwts to the load, but it proves to be false, as he is still sinking. The Italians’ claim has got very bad during the past week, and three of the party have thrown up their shares. There is a new attraction in the Coal Creek rush, which is only about ten miles from here, and has drawn away a few of our discontented ones. The rush looks very promising, and will, to say the least, furnish employment to hundreds of miners for years to come. Of course there are “ croakers ” here who cry down the rush, and prophesy all that is bad, but such characters are found everywhere Kumara had in its early days a very poor name, and hundreds left it in disgust, but it eventually proved one of the best rushes on the Coast, and I have no doubt but that when Woodstock has been properly prospected, it will prove much richer than is at present expected. The fiist paddock (Oornick’s), was sluiced to-day, and yielded 22ozs from about 50 loads of dirt, which gives a very good average. '