DUFFER'S GULLY.

Grey River Argus, Issue 95, 21 August 1866, Page 2

DUFFER'S GULLY.

" (FROM X COEEBSPOND?NT.X .' v Augusti3i / Of late so much has been said of the great doings over ;the Saddle and at Burton's that the oncejal.e claim creeks known as Duffer's arCd Nobie'sliave not. be^eii' id niuch in people's mouths ; in fact,' if- you. saw a party pf men with swags, and.asked them where they were going, the answer was sure "to be ' "Over ;tne Saddle';'^ or " To Burtpn's Rush;'' but .the; .greater number who left We haye ( .returned, and have steadily set iii t<> work. There must be some pretty good: inducemeiit, or else a man who^ has once .come .the live,^.pr-six miles of. xaud and waters — f driifi-cah.' hardly ibe called a road-— that one has to walk to get. to- the workings'- or township, would not venture on such a walk fpr nothingsThere are a. great; many .still at'-.work' in the creek, but a few months ago the gold ■ was found to run out. in. the "creek, and so easy was it to getontogood ground 'again that very, few troubled t. themselves; about it ; buf one or two parties have put tunnels in the terrace at the back p£ the township, arid they have struck good gold ; in.fadt, it ;is . -isuppioseld to., be: the -gold; which irun out in the creeks. ; ;, They are. making fromLlO to Ll2 per huin'a- Week with eighteen mouths or two year3 ; workjand r n'owttfnnels are being started everyfew days by different parties, at^alriidst every beiid in the 1 "creek. One party here, have just finished .bringing in a race, 1 fluniihg over 'thd creekf'&d.,v' to ground sluice .a. point, Jtnd are being, well repaid; for their trouble. '- -At Noble's one hears, up complaints^ as < nearly all api)ear to be making fair wages, and some have, as at 'Duffer's, struck the j metaVon theiterraces, . •'■ y---'--- : . it* ■ • The_ -township here is imprpyingj and *here-is to be erected a Hpihan Catholic Chapel.: -According to, the plarisiit will'bc. a handsome and .appropriate building, , capable of holding a large , number of porsons.. It is i very gratifying to observe tha,t the good- people of Duffer's and Noble's ajro doing tliis as a mark of their appreciation of Father' Koyer's xinwearying exertions to be amongst them, never allowing weather, freshes, or anything else, to prevent Ids paying them a, visit.. , Bias's was celebrated 1 at Dirffer's Aiid at on the stli i and 12thJ iiista. j-im 'wh'ich-'l^tter day it rained incessantly, attended with ,a heavy fresh, and'k-hdwing- tliat the Rev. Father was to celebrate divine service at Noble's ab; eight o'clock in the^-mdrniiig. very few believed. that, he would bo able to get over ihe Saddle to^uffei-'s, at which place .notices .were up during: the ..week that- service would "be* Heldt at' -eleven o'clock— but presently the Rev, gentleman was seen making hisiway ddwii4he;creek^ being little behind-'tlie advertised tinie. ' To-day :beiug Lady-Day "Mass "will: be oelebrateVl herey after which -Fatiherßojfer .leaves for Grayinputli,. although tlie creek* is so high I ••th'aiVior aQveraldays it has preyented'.both pedestrians and horses coming up,' leaving ua, ' as .sometimes ' happens, t with very little choice.' in the way of tucker.