CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 340, 30 October 1868, Page 3

CROMWELL.

(from a correspondent.) Octobe I 28. Preparationsfo working the Quartz Reef at BencligoGully arebeingcarried on vigorously. A sang of men may now be seen formin'? a road from the reef down the many and steep terraces to the spo f where the crushing machine wi'l, in a few weeks be erected. This raid will he an expensive one, as a large am mnt of blasti.e; is necessary. The expenses in the transit of the crushing machinery up to Cromwell, will amount to considerably over 30(!(.; the work of crushing will be commenced at an earlv date The Lowhurn gullies were completely worked out by the Great Westmorland Canal Company, a id others some three years ago, and were all abandoned. It appear-, however, that they w’ere not wo ked out, and a fierce figh’ for some ground is to take place brf r) Mr. Warden Pvke, on his next visit to Cromwell Werner, Partridge, and party about a month ago, completed a large waterrace to the gullies, from a creek near the Mount Pisn Station. Birchall and party have taken possession of an acre of ground, intended to be worked by Werner’s. The affair is likely to prove a matter of interest at the next v s-t of Mr Warden Pyke. Old Quartz Rrff Foil t seems positiv Iv ineyh u tilde. Frdler and pa ty brought in a large race from the ranges during the winter season, and have, since the fros'yand snowy weather, has ende commenced >hi'cing,iii.two gullies at the upper end of the point, the yield is a handsome one. and a month’s work wi 1 pay all expanses incurred in the construction of the race. Potter’s Gnllv on the ranges be'ween here and the Nevis, was sudposed to have been worked <T>an out severa t'mes during the last four years, and yet. during a visit I lately paid to th >t locali y, I found tht prospects of the minors there, as good as anv in tho Cromwell district. Old Moonlight Flat, on the summit of the ranges nearthe Roaring Meg, was ye>rs ago pronounced defunct, but within the last few weeks qnitea scrimmage 'or ground has taken place between men from the Kawarau and others, in fact, go where I will,. I find that our old gullies can onlv he compared to Professor "Anderson’s inexhaustible bottle, there is no end to the supply of yellow dirt. In one correspondence some time ago, 1 stated that a day-school had hren opened at Alberton, and that a young gentleman named Pope had been engaged by Mr. Norman and Others as teacher. The scholars have ma le astonishing progress since, and their parents are delighted.