CAMBRIANS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 978, 14 January 1881, Page 3

CAMBRIANS.

(FB«M AN OCCASIONAL COUriP.SPONDKNT. ) The holidays b.;ing over, ali the claims are again at work. The continuous wet leather which has prevailed for some time, lias given a plentiful supply of water to everyone. All parties hj ive been engaged daring I Hie past week or two in washingup. with the exception of Mills and party at Vinegar Hid. who have not yet finished. The returns vary from 15s to LI 100 per mi i, the latter amount having been netted hy Musts Hughes and Morgan, of Tiger Hill—Mills an I Learntrud alsi expec something good. The Chinese; never at any time Very numerous here, were for f£ time reduced to two. each of these carrying on the occitpati in of a store-keeper an 1 miner —this has, however, been altered, a considerable influx of late having occurred, but the miners here would rather bo without them'. l uotioe a growing tendency on the part of some run managers in this neighborhood to employ Chinese labor—this, along with the fact that mins of I ho contractors on the roads are qlying 2ns per week and board - hoard in surh cass meaning boil the billv, and cook a chop for then}selves makes the prosp ots of tho laboring man anything hut goo 1. Crops on the surrounding farms are looking splendid, and shoal 1 the weather from this tint ■ prove favorable, a bountiful harvest may be lo 'ke I for.