BENDIGO GULLY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 413, 18 March 1870, Page 3

BENDIGO GULLY.

(FROM OCR OWN’ CORRESPONDENT.) March 14. The dry weather is again seriously affecting onr water supply, which,'if not s’ion supplemented by a rainfall, will become a dead letter. The 'Aurora Company are only crushing with fopr stampers ajt present, They have an excessive supply of water at the head of their race, hut fho nature n the ground over which it passes causes a great loss f' om drainage and evaporation in dry weather. This defect will, however, be reins Ted shortly. This Company are putting through a deal of stone. What the yield will be one can only vaguely gn 'ss, ns the reef is generally very patchy. These patches occur, however. With tolerable regu ante. Quartz versus Alluvial is tbe public question just now, the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company having determined to try and put a step to a 1 sluicing in Bendigo Gully, ou the plan that their mill area will a eventually become silted up and rendered 7 useless if tailings are continued to be sent down this, their natural and only oitt'et. Whether quartz will gain the day will ho hereafter seen, but I must remark that it docs scorn a little hard on the alluvial interest, which will—or lam much mis-taken--become param-.nnt in this district at a future dote. The laws relating to tail-raves anil nutlets are lamentably deficient, and cal! strongly for ire'caned legis latiou on the subject. I am inf nned that the Government have, not accepted any of ih" ten tr* lately senin for the conveyance of the mail to tins place, and '.lie establishment of a local post office, and w • must c mtiiiUn in the meantime to put up with inconveniences which wouM try the patience of a sain!, il hr had any correspondence. This may be the Government, plan of fostering and centralising now and promising communities, but I must beg leave to d Uibt its efficiency Logantowu presented a strange appearance on Saturday night last. A dance generally takes place at the Provincial Hotel on that evening. The Terpsicborean Votaries were in full swing, as usual, when that indefatigable an übiquitous officer, Mr. Cassells, su denly appeared, to the astonished gaze of the company, and wdere 1 the music to be stopped, which was immediately done. The crow , determine! not to he baulked, adjourned to the open street, accompanied hy the musician, and danced away to their heart’s ■ content, keeping up the “alfresco” hall until a late hour I cannot say that the encomiums passed on the primary cause of the impromptu carnival, for his strict observance of the laws and attention to the laws of duty were very flattering, and really, “entre nous,” it did favor a little despotism. The Cri inwo’l Company will wash up on Thursday next., and expect to have between four hundred and five hundred ounces for the fortnight. This lines not look as if onr reefs giving out. Claim No. 1 east, adjoining Williams’s claim, is looking remarkably well. The Company have got the reef eighteen inches thick, showing good prospects, and are now calling for ten ers for sinking a siiaft a; once. Tju should be a further inducement for the imuie iale erection of the promised m wsitiuery «u this reef. One oi our mg i v.es iuton Iv this week to enter upon a now stage of being, \iz,, wedde.. bliss. As all the district is invited to share his Hospitality on the auspicious occasion you can imagine everyone is ou tlu- qui vivo. As ibis sort of thing is contagious, i wii: lit It mi | litu: to hear of o.hcrs following suit an : perpetrating the iiiiid crime ot matrimony.