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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1934, 17 July 1869, Page 3

Something like a Claim. The following statistic# of the Morning Star Prospecting Claim are published in Mr R. Brough Smyth’s “Goldfields and Mineral Districts of Victoria” The claim was taken up in May, 1861, under the bye-laws, but subsequently under lease; and, including the Garden Claim, the prospectors hold an area of eight acres one rood two perches, rhejr-.first crushing, in August, 1862 produced L 6,548 18s. They were, after that, idle until May, 1863, partly through want of water, and partly til rough the i ecessity of constructing new races. The largest yield produced in ten da} s was L 40,000 worth of gold, when the stamps were found to be moving in a solid bed of amalgam. The dividends io July, 1865, inclusive were L 91.816 6s lOd; from July 31, 1865, to June 30, 1866, L 24.544 8s 9cl. Total produce of mine to October 31, 1866, L 164,441 8s lid. Britain v. America. —The A. Z. Herald says We have quite made up our minds that the British Government have fully determined not to aid us, and that if we expect external aid to suppress the rebellion, we must go to our cousius in America and ask them to come over and help us, and accept us a part of the American dominions.