BENDIGO GULLY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 409, 18 February 1870, Page 2

BENDIGO GULLY.

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February 13. There is little of import ma s to report from this place since my last. All traces of the stirring events therein describe I have vanished With, perhaps, the exception of here and t ere a broken hea ! or batter-el countenance. Such phenonema are not to ho wondered at when we consider the amount of alcoholic stiraul uPs imbibed on the recent festive occasion, and the syste u which exists hare (to mo a Yankeisai) of settling grievances i istauter by ai appeal to listicufts. It is to be hoped this primitive but objectionable state of things will soon be altered. The Aurora Company’s battsiy is working splend diy, crushing night and day A slight accident occurred last night; the intermediate spur wheel broke but Mr. Laid, the Company’s engineer expects to remedy it to-morrow. The Cornpan,- intend washing up in a we k, af or putting through one hundred tons of quartz, and from the appearance of the tables i shall not bo surprised if those sceptical of the paying nature of our reefs, receive convincing proof, by the returns of this first crushing, of the unsoundness of their opinion, This Company came upon a splendi patch in breaking down reef on Thursday last. I saw some of the stone. It appeared to contain fifty per cent, of gold. A few such patches would make the fortunes of the shareholders. A very sensational account of the above was freciy circuhved. The flaming description of the discovery given, astonished all pirties up here, ami the great excitement mast hj iv'j existed only in ihe mind of the writer, as I saw none of it. “Great is truth and shall prevail,” so ] hope more of that desirable com modify may be imported into the next report concerning this place, as such exagi gora'ions are only calculated to injure our I otherwise fair prospects. Good payable stone has beau struck during the week on the continuation of the Aurora and Col dough’s lines of reef in M ‘Lauchlan’s claim on the former mid Turner's on the latter. William’s, Colclongh’s, and other well-know.i reefs are keeping up their reputation as pile claims in future. More machinery and ■ riving power is all that is required hereto develop our mineral treasures. This will necessarily he a work of time ; but th re is no reason such a con ummatiou ski mid not be hj stc * d by every available means within our power. The weather has been very sultry and oppressive i uring the week, so much so that many parties ha 1 to ceasionally suspend work, being unable to clear their wurkings of the foul air. To-day, however, is a pleasa it change, a clear sky and light north-west wind making everything look bright and cheerful. 1 intended talking about our present in. convenient postal arrangements ; but a change is rumored, so I will defer it until I see what the i sue of such change may be.