MOUNT BENGER.

Evening Star, Issue 2816, 27 February 1872, Page 2

MOUNT BENGER.

(FROM OUR OWN' CORRESPONDENT.) Whether the aridity of the atmosphere has occasioned a barrenness of intellect in the mind of your c or no, is a question requiring too enormous a display of scientific learning to be lightly entered into within the limits of your far from gigantic columns ; suffice it to say that such a barrenness of invention has for a time afflicted him and deprived you of his invaluable effusions. And now that the lethargic chains have been unbound —that the noble intellect has .vain “ stamped its strong foot and said ‘it shall be free !’ (line writing, my masters !)—let me premise, by assuring you that there is absolutely nothing to chronicle under the heading of ‘ ‘News from Mount Benger. All the races are dry, and, in consequence the miners are still drier, whence a lack of | those sms U disturbances which arc so valuable to a o voir icier of small beep. In vain do

the sturdy cockatoos, “ Mount Fencer's pride,” iu view of a scarcity of chaff, implore your correspondent to resume his pen. The ink is dry and the appeal is nought. The oldest inhabitant, dimly visible through mountains of whirling dust-cloud, mutteis ominously of “ the end of all things,” coupled with the names of Jock Gumming and Dr Graham. In short, the clerk of the weather is anathematised by all classes of the community. The squatter mourns the feed, the fanner bewails his scanty crop, and the miner, weary of enforced idleness, objurgates at the nature of things iu general. As there is no news of any kind, I think I will till up the remainder of this letter witli a piece of statisti s. humbly dedicated to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. Thei e is, according to adventurous explorers, a vidago situated at the entrance end of Moa Flat, known by the euphonious title of F-tlrick. Now, hy a recent census, taken with enormous labor and ruinous expenditure (in drinks) the total number of edifices in this city are exactly six. Uf these, three arc hotels, and a fourth a manufactory of temps'aucc dr.’nks. A fact of this kind convincingly proves the wondrous wealth cf a district whose inhabitants can afford an hotel and a ha f per head with half a cordial manufactory thrown in.