PORT DARWIN.
• ■ 0 F'i* November 2S. ■ Mr Richard* W.ells, editor of the Times and Gazette, is now visiting the reefs, and reports that upon the Agguagalli, Howley ' Creek, Nina, j and Melbourne and Port Dar- \ win Companies' claims scarcely any work has been done, and- no men employed; the j managers are' also absent at Palmerston ; no ' sinking being done at present. Promising ~ stone has been raised, but not crushed this. \ season. A groat number of men are at the alluvial diggings, and some our. ' doing welL while all expect to do better,, when more rain falls. Mr Slater got fifty I pounds' worth in a few days. Some reefing companies will crush quartz soon. Captain Douglas's. claim looks satisfactory, and with energetic management the reef will turn out'^ veil. Business is flat. ■•" ; The Government is finishing the jetty . Southport and buoying the rivor. . - ''< The road to the reefing country is briskowing to the number of drays' going up, and' ,■ the good feed for teams since the rains.
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Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1203, 11 December 1873, Page 2
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168PORT DARWIN. Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1203, 11 December 1873, Page 2
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