BENDIGO GULLY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 450, 2 December 1870, Page 2

BENDIGO GULLY.

FliOW OUR OWN CORI ESPONDENT. Agreeable to my promise of giving you a loiter of general news, for the benefit of your naders, I set myself down with that intin 1 , and trust it may give you pleasure. The fates have ordained, that the commencement of my self imposed task, .should convey o you intelligence of a very sad, and i,ainiul nature, but lot us unite in the hope that a dark beginning may bring about a bright and happy termination The accident I allude to happened on Tuecliy last, in the Alta Quartz mining company works, and resulted in the death of a miner, named John G. Gillies, or ‘ Gellis,” the circumstances as near as I can learn areas follows.—The deceased and another miner named Gill, were employed by the Company, engaged in dr.ving a tunnel? at the time of the accident, Gill was putting in a set of timber to support thei ground, when a large block of rock suddenly fell from the roof, and struck the deceased who was setting i n a barrow, cleaving his skull in i wo, and scattering his bra us in every directions, death must have boon instantaneous, as Gili immediately went to his assistance but found life extinct. Th; bodv was at once removed to Logan Town, and from thence to Cromwell, where it awaits an inquest, which I hear will take place on Thursday. The deceased who had only been on Bendigo about a fortnight, enue from St. Batlian’s, where he had resided for years, he was a min much esteemed, and his loss will be deeply regretted; the sad affiir has cast quite a gloom over the whole reef, and has caused a partial suspension of work which I dout expect will be resumed till after the interment.

The Alta Company are pushing ahead the whole of their works with great spirit, they have a considerable amount of stone to grass, and it, .is assumed, that by the New Year their batteries of stamps will be doing their work of disintegration.

The Colchnigh Company, are also making good headway in the erection of their machinery, and water permitting” they will be making a start about the sain- time as the Alta Company. The stone of this laim looks, better than any yet obtained on Bendigo, and the far famed Cromwell Company will have to look well to it, or its brow will be dismantled ot its laurels. 1 say water permitting on the faith of some fast and loose agreement to supply them with Water eu tered into with the Aurora Company. They are erecring their machinery, but as the Aurora Company have knocked oft work it is questioned whether they will feel inclined to cany out their part •if the compact. Humor says it is not compulsory on -heir part to do so, and it they -hould draw hack the Colc'ongh Company will he put to an enormous expense in conveying water from another source. The Cromwell Company is still getting out stone, and crushing wihh about the same results as hitherto fur the past Few weeks only one battery of five heads has been at work, the other was stopped to remedy some defect, in the tables. Next week both batteries will he at work. Ot the other claims along the line of reefs at work I have really nothing to note, “ to use a stereotyped phrase” but should any of them strike the jugular I will duly acquaint you.