COAL -CHEEK

Dunstan Times, Issue 503, 8 December 1871, Page 2

COAL -CHEEK

(RIOM A COEKESPOSDEST.) The crops in this district are looking remarkably well, and unless we have a spell of very dry weather they will surpass anything we have soon for some years past. lam very glad to sec by the Tuapcka Times that the Fourteen-mile Beach water works are now in good order, and will be the means of employing a great many miners, as employment is the groat want < f the district. r ihe shareholders deserve great credit for their perseverance, and I hope they will succeed in getting together some good results to chronicle before Christmas. 1 hear from reliable authority that the sixteen-miie Bench water race has again changed hands, and the well known experience in mining matters of the present proprietor, Mr. W. C. Hodge-., will no doubt make the undertaking a success, we hear that he intends to take the water to some of the terraces between the fourteen and sixteen mile beaches. I hope he will meet with the success he deserves. From the Campbell’s and Potter’s district, I have very little to report, as most of the claim holders are very busy at the present time in running off largo paddocks in order to have a good washing up before Christmas. Jackson and party, at Campbell’s, have been for the last month in the Waikea bush, cutting timber preparatory to commencing a very heavy un lertaking, viz.—to take their tail race through a hill, which is about five hundred feet high—the length of the tunnel I believe will be about a thousand feet through rock and boulders, so you may form some idea of the magnitude of the undertaking. On Tuesday, at the Magistrate's Court, Roxburgh, before J. B. Borton, Esq., R.M, and John Beightcn, Esq., J.P., John Boyle was brought up on remand, charge 1 with committing an assault with intent upon Mrs. Cosgrove at the White Combo Creek. The prisoner was defended by Mr. M’Cuy, and the evi leme was really unfit fur publica’.ion, and the Magistrate after reviewing the samn, dismissed the assault with intent and fined the prisoner 51. for an assault. A very narrow escape of drowning occurred here last week. Some children belonging to Mrs. Cairns, who lives midway between Coal Creek and the Teviot, were play’ng on the edge of a dam, when by some moans, the youngest one fell into the water, when its sister, who is ltd ween three and four yea-s of age, ran home and told its mother, who immediately went to the dam in a frantic state, and there behold the litt’e child lying on the bottom, and apparently dead. The mother without hesitation, plowed in’o the water, can eh t up the babe in her arms, and overcome by excitement caused by the impression that the child was dead, was just upon the point of falling into the dam again, when she and the child were rescued by Mr. C. I.amrmcad, who happened to be passing at the time. lam glad to say that the child has since recovered, v?,’ It began to be generally thought we should not have any races this yar in the district, hut I see that Coal Creek has come to the rescue, anl by the way. the subscription list is hein- filled up. I have every reason to believe that we shell have a very good loo.al gathering ; it is to come off on Boxing Day, and the day after, on the Coal Creek race course.