PORT MOLYNEUX DIGGINGS.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 169, 5 October 1877, Page 6

PORT MOLYNEUX DIGGINGS.

The diggers engaged on the beach at; Port Molyneux are the first who have gone into the work in that, quarter, in' what may be called a scientific fashion. Plenty of their predecessors were willing, enough' to work away, scratching the ; surface, so long as tolerable wages were the constant and immediate result, but" very unwilling to lay out their money on sh'ch machinery as could alone give ,any sure prospect of securing, the .very fin© gold, which has always constituted the. staple of any found on the beach. The chance. ■ was deemed good, , but .the risk of. loss.: was. deemed greater, or the means wereiawanting. The 1 present, company, is, the .first which has had faith enough in ultimate success to venture a heavy outlay of money, and to labour steadily for months in preparatory work, before securing the first speck: It-is satisfactory, chiefly to themselves, • and in a minor degree to outsider's also, to find that! their faith has been well foundedi Of course, they are Somewhat reticent | about their own affairs, but.dfia strawfloating on the' stream shows in what direc-* : tion .the current flows,, .there can. remain ' iio; , doubt that, the , Port. . Molyneux "diggings, {after many ups and downs, i$ after! all something, worth looking after! [A ( ieyr weeks ago, the company '* offeree! -some-, where .aboijt' four ; or .nvo'poUnds 'ah*'a!dre ; for!a fifty-acre section' tlmt' -vtas ; 'lbeing sold: iii the immediato vicinity of '-their work-s^ They 'have just 'purchased va 5 houso -and ; severartbwii*3hip* sections; and'are going iri : •for stock'ahd- other 1 -settled l arrangements;. ; They deserve success and a continuance of. it. - * .-■ £;.-': • • „y,yA A .-'*;