BENDIGO GULLY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 434, 12 August 1870, Page 3

BENDIGO GULLY.

(from our own correspondent. 1 am glad to be able to report that matters here are generally assuming a more cheerful aspect. Stern old winter appears to be retrograding Without having made any extraordinary demonstration. Eeefing operations are being gradually resumed, holders of claims having satisfactorily discovered that, so far as climatic influences are Concerned, there was no necessity for a cessation. The “ Oldest Inhabitant” declares that there has never been such a mild season in the district. Let us hope that it may be the beginning of a new era in New Zealand winter's The Cromwell Company washed up on Saturday and retorted about three hundred ounces for the fortnight’s crushing, about eighty tons being put through the mill, their reef continues wide and carries goou gold throughout. Colclough and Company are raising a great quantity of stone and are preparing a site for their battery, the quartz in their deep level really looks spWdicl, gold being plainly visible in every piece examined. The Aurora Company are breaking down the quartz in their level, having reached the point at which their first stope will commence, they will require to drive upwards to the shaft to drain off the water of which there is a depth of thirty feet over head in the open cutting, making drains at present is anything but an agreeable operation. they are not yet through the lode yet it promises to be a great thickness, and pleasant to report the precious metal is easily seen without the aid of a lens. Broadfoot and Company are still sinking they are down eighty feet, the reef giving payable prospects all the way. The Alta Company are raising stone, they have about two hundred tons at grass, from the prospects I should say that the outlay for their projected mill will soon he returned when the stampers are brought to hear on the silica Jones, Carr and Company, No. 2, West Aurora line are raising fifty tons for a trial, crushing, the prospects are very fair, they ■“'ill have to erect u wire tramway to convey the stone across a deep gulch intervening between their claim and the Aurora mill. I think from the foregoing statement of facts we may honestly draw the inference that a prosperous future awaits the new Bendigo, as I stated on a former occasion that depth has a different meaning than exhaustion of a reef. I beg to point to the improvements visible in every instance thus far as lower depths are pierced, as a proof of the correctness of the assertion. I have thought of a plan by which the ultimate depth, say a thousand feet, might b i reached and worked Ivy one main lead for four of our present lines of reefs, and will place the same before your readers after mature consideration, at a future date. The astounding news of the great Tohbery at the Cam]), Clyde, took every one here by surprise, such a it idling deed being of rare occurrence n Otago, people hardly know what to conjecture, some conversations I have heard on the matter are highly amusing, the general feeling being one of admiration for the “ bold outlaw ” who has compassed such a bold theft, evidently not looking at the subject from a moral point of view. I hear nothing now of the water supply to the Bendigo district, I suppose our Superintendent after graciously receiving the deputation and plausibly enough promising to look into it, considers like Mr. Micawber “ that that matter is settled,” it is surprising with all the misery and distress existing in Dunedin, and the province generally, that the Government do not initiate some such reproductive works and find work for the unemployed in place of sending away' the money to introduce emigrants to swell the ranks of the idle and starv in ; population and induce increased misery and distress, possibly they act upon the principle of similis, similibus. curantur, which is, as far as humanity is concerned a mistake, as our present rulers may some day' discover to their cost.