THE PALMER GOLD-FIELD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 651, 9 October 1874, Page 3

THE PALMER GOLD-FIELD.

Tho following extracts aro taken from the Palmer correspondent's letter of the Cookstown Courier : ‘•lt says something for tho group of reefs in the neighborhood of Gregor’s Gully, that notwithstanding the excitement consequent on the alluvial finds, not a single prospecting claim, as far as I can learn, has been abandoned. There is nothing fresh to report in this department of mining. Of course prospecting for reefs under present circumstances is a dead letter, but confidence in the permanency and payability of tho reefs of the district has increased with every day’s working, and it only requires the desideratum, “ machinery,” to prove that the scores of experienced miners who aro working those already opened have not erred in judgment. Tho Chinese are coming in in considerable numbers, principally from tho Ethridge and Charters Towers direction*; but tho grand army is still on tho road hither. They have invariably lost no time after arrival iu going to work on the beaches of the river, where they can do well for all time, as long as the river kcc;s far enough back. “ Humping dirt,” whether on the bamboo or tbe shoulder, is more congenial to a Chinaman than a European, notwithstanding the superiority of tho latter in everything but perseverance ; and - ’in working those beaches’the dirt has frequently to becarried on the back for 100 or 200 yards—and then without a very heavy return at the end of the week ; say on an average three quarters ■of an ounce per week. The Chinese, too, aro occupying the left-hand branch, and should the progress of gold discovery continue unchecked in the direction it is now going’ the Chinese will, before many months are over, have undisturbed possession of the whole of what not long ago was the Palmer gold-field. In anticipation of the coming event, Wing On and Co. have erected a large store, the largest inPahnerville—with a Chinese hotel next door, and Chinese merchants may be seen coming in every day, no doubt with a view of establishment. At present there aro about 200 Chinese on the field.

A servant girl told her master, the other morning, that she was about to give his wife warning and quit the house.—“ Happy girl ! Would that 1 could give her warn ing, too !” responded the indescribable brute.

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