BLACK’S.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1937, 21 July 1869, Page 2

BLACK’S.

(FROM our own correspondent.) July 19. Black’s is a mining village, of about 100 inhabitants, including children. It

is twenty miles from Clyde, and thirty from St. Bathan’s. Black’s has four stores and three hotels, It rejoices in. a police camp, of little use owing to the peaceable disposition of the people. Its climate is fine, little rain falling, Frost and snow and occasional showers in winter, and wind in summer, are .the chief climatic characteristics of Black’s. Gold here is all got by sluicing, but the expense of water is a great drawback. Owing to this expense, Black’s golden resources are almost urn known. We have a post-office, with a bi-weekly mail up and down the Dunstan Road, A Bank of New South Wales is also here, and does a good business. Our school is small, but excellent. Black’s is slowly—very slowly —but surely improving. Lately Mr Gillies came here, and gave us a commonage—to the great disgust of Dir Squatter-Low. The visits of the clergy are like the visits of their masters-- “ the angels”—few and far between. The Catholics are thinking of church building. Mr Vincent Pyke supplies us with fortnightly instalments of justice.