BLACK'S No. 1.

Dunstan Times, Issue 521, 12 April 1872, Page 2

BLACK'S No. 1.

(Ffton A COP.RESPONTIP.XT. 1 A change, most welcome, has at length taken place, the drought anl intense heat being succeeded by occasional showers and cool hrecaos. To all appearance the weather has broken, and winter is coming on us apace. Already has the giant snow taken possession of the summits of the mountains, and, according to the prophesying of our weather saves, it will soon, in its career, deacon I f o the low-lying country. The few showers that have fal'cn, though not in sufficient quantities to he scarcely perceptible, have done a i resit deal of coo 1.., many i,f (be claim) that hav been idle for s on' time time nest havin' Iv.vn able to remmo work, SqraHcrs, farmers, alid

diggers are alike jubilant, and all are pro- * p.v log f o take ndvan-a -e of the change. 1 The farmers are routine"cioa to plough : for the coming season, and general activity is setting in in every direction. 1 There arc no particular items of mining 1 intelligence to communicate. I hear, that . 1 several raeet in the district bavi la'e'y 5 change 1 hands, and, under tlm new pro- 1 ' prictaries, their courses are to he diver - el ! ‘ iu o‘hm- directions. A small rate from ’ Thomson’s Gul’y. la f ely employ’d in slide- : iug away the terraces near (Hansford's B'ack Bush Station, is to he diverted into Devonshire Cully, to operate upon some very good wound lately discovered there. TltoT.nwdtr Greek Race, which a -short time hack was dis 'O-ed of by tin oriental party who cr.ustrr.cteil it, and purchased by Mr. William Orcenbattk-of Dipbread, hat again passed int • the hands of the former ov.u evs, who intend wo-kin •• the wat r at Black’s No. 1, The Sits ensiou Water-race, heading from Chatto Creak, and hitherto employed at BlfcVs. i -to b ■ carrie I to Tiii’u—’s Gully, This taco l;a< a light to some fit to ut or sis!ea b. a’a of w i cr, a d th.o addition of that qnatl'ity to tlie o'her streams nlcady doing duty thetv will naturally benefit that district

Tinker’s Gully, for many y avs, has c nt'ihn f od to til-’ Black's escort ■> c n iduab’e portion of the gold, hough but li’tlc kn•,« n • u'sidc its i-n - edi de neighborhood, is likely ere long 1 1 assume a more important nrs ; - ion. The system of working-a ely iutrodac d proves that, the ground is ranch better than over anticipated, and consequently greater efforts are made to dew lop its resources. The iron piping—Kincaid and M Qu-'cn, I believe, are the makers—successfully used in Drybread for sluicing purposes is to be introduced by one of the parties, and arrangements have bee i made for a string of several him Ircd yards. The new township, “ Ncw-town,” already supports several stores, hotels, butcher’s shops, and a bakery, and, from what I can hear, several other places will shortly hj» erected. The township is capitally situate as a centre, as from it available tracks diverge to the Bendigo Reefs, Thomson's Gorge, and to all the surrounding workings. The roads, on account of the long continuance of dry weather,' have been and arc still in very good condition ; hut I far. unless toiho of the sand-hides are loaded with stones before the winter sets in, they will provoke many a b'essing (?) on the heads of the Road Department. The old saying, “A stitch in nmo saves nine.” ac pears to bo ! unheeded ; for, if many of the bad places i were ‘ u r paired w'tila the weather remains j fair, th- money expended would lv of -crvic ■ ; wiicrca-, if left, lili the Bad V,V V/SjV s '? ill, if money is then spent thcic n, it will be of no p,Qssib:o.go;’.;l. 1 wit! conclude'(his by congratulating the district upoirhaving a most us fill ius'ituti n supplied, them. 1 refer to the punt .ai-,,-E *li M.omh -iikia, «n the road horn tee’s to tin’ t-w ship.' Tim wire row in , ivh’oadv.st.rebjhe' 1 ', She. boat built.'and] believe evcr-lbln ; will be in working order within a week.