BENDIGO.

Dunstan Times, Issue 466, 14 April 1871, Page 3

BENDIGO.

(from our correspondent.) A welcome change has occurred in the weather giving plenty of water to the races, which were beginning to run short, and tendering the aspect of all things animate and inanimate pleasant. Business is languishing, not because the place is not prosperous, but because there are too many business people on the ground. Over-rushing a place with business people is becoming so common now, that it may be mentioned that tlie'yritwboii ot the prosperity of tfle prosperity of individual storekeepers. The different companies are pushing on their works, and to all appearances satisfactorily. There are no fresh claims opened, nor rumors of such being contemplated. The few men that are idle in the neighborhood, pro fer to knock about listlessly waiting for a chance for wages instead of setting into work in a manly way on their own responsibility'- There is plenty of ground that bears every indication of being payable, and it only wants men with a little energy to develop it. The Cromwell Company are getting out payable working stone from the old lease and crushing it. Their next crushing will be from the Golden Link which seems remarkably rich—sanguine temperaments speak of seven or eight ounces to the ton. Colclongh’s Company are hammering away with their small battery on fair stone. This company cannot be expected to make a fortune, as in consecpience of the thinness of the reef they are compelled to employ a large number of hands to keep the battery at work, but there is no doubt that the shareholders will be well paid bv their enterprise. The Alta company bad a crushing this week with very fair results, and are at work again. The average yield I hear was about seventeen pennyweights to the ton. The stone they'are at present crushing looks better than any yet brought to light, and has every appearance of going an ounce and a half. This company are now workingyiu a most systematic and economical manner, and a verv low average yield can be made to pay a dividend The Aurora Company are yet undecided as to what course to pursue with respect to their claim and plant. An offer was made by one party to take it upon terms, but it was not accepted, and the company is still open to receive proposals To a parly of good working men, this is a good opportunity', and they would be but indifferent miners if they could not at least make good wages, having at their command a water race, a quartz reef and a crushing machine. There is only one unregistered party on the Bendigo reef getting out stone, M'Namara and Roy. They have at present about thirty tons of stone on grass, and are waiting an opportunity to get it crushed.

Mining and scrip appears to be at discount, as there are any amount of Aurora’s, Colclough’s and Alta’s in the market up here. Speculation is not brisk, though a few shares change hands occasionally.

A complimentary ! tea meeting has been given in Sydney to Lorando Jones—the man who was sentenced by Judge Simpson to two years imprisonment for blasphemy, and afterwards released by the Government.

AUSTRALIA. A nugget weighing three hundred and thirty ounces lias been unearthed near Inglewood, Victoria. The merchants of Sydney are getting up an influential petition to the Government in favor of a continuation of the subsidy to the Californian line of mail steamers. The Government of New South Wages are actively proceeding with the fortification of Sydney harbor. Mr. B. C. Aspinall, the well known qarrister, is an inmate of <Jlareourt’s private lunatic Asylum, Melbourne. The Melbourne Argus appears to have hurt the feelings of some 1 , of its French subscribers to judge from the following letter sent to the Editor of that journal:—“ Sir; Caution, it Appears that You Are Inserting A great deal of lies Ahouth France And I Have to Inform you That I Can Bring A annoy of Eleven Thousand Men An I Shall Bomhade Every Street And 1 üblic Building in Melbourne You pan Make What You Like out of 'this, Louis Ducuoz. (great Caution.) My Hand is Death. Six are on the beHh at Sydney for the Fijis. _ The prospectus of the Adelaide and Glenelg line of railway has been issued. '1 he Northern Queensland telegraph lino is said to be now completed for a distance of fifty miles from Cardwell towards Normantown. This, though a local undertaking (observes the Port Denison Times), is one in which all Australia is interested, as it will be a link in the chain of communication wilh England. The work is also commenced at the Gulf end. The distance across from sea to sea is about three hundred and sixty miles, and uhe work will probably be finished in about threeor four nVohihs, and almost certainly by the Vhldle of the year. The English comjMyphat provides the submarine cable lias completed the communication between Singapore to Batavia, and it is expected, by this time, has also laid the cable from Madras to Singapore, across the Bay of Bengal. If that feat has been successfully accomplished, then Batavia is at this moment in telegraphic communication with Asia, Europe, and America, and we , may say that the news of the world is brought to our doors. Extraordinary rich yields of gold are reported from the recently discoveied reefs at Tambaroora KVohan crushed one thousand five hundred and fifty fi vc ounces of gold from seven tons of stone; and Byves crushed one thousand five hundred ounces of gold from twenty eight tons of stone.