THE ARNOLD.

Grey River Argus, Issue 130, 10 November 1866, Page 3

THE ARNOLD.

(FHOM OUR OWN CPRftKSPONDIJNT, ) Maoki Gully, November 8. This district for the last fortnight has been gradually thinned, owing to the imsh to the Pakihi; This Aye are not sorry? for, as it has had the good effect of weeding out a great many who would never work anywhere but about a mile above or below the township. I have it from good authority that many have gone merely to report on the place. However, many are sure to return who will regret they ever left, and I am confident that a reaction will set in in this direction before many weeks elapse. My reason for saying this is that the upper portion of Maori Gully has lain comparatively unworked, and I know for a fact that the main lead was lost about two and a half miles above the township, and has only been struck lately, several parties up there are making good wages. The Creek lead appears to have made a sudden jump over a high reef to the eastern side. A considerable amount of time and expense will be required "to work this ground, as a long and doep tai] race will have to be cut in consequence of . the wetness of the ground, but the general impression is that the lead might continue for miles, which there is every probability of 'it doing. What we want here is some fresh blood infused into us, the old residents' have become almost stagnant, as they have neither heart nor spirit to go into anything. They say the price of provisions are too high to allow a mau to make more than a bare living. Their petitions to the Government one and all '. -Jiave been treated with ignominy, if not with silent, contempt, otherwise they would have been answered long ere thia. And yet in the very face of this what portion of the West Coast has produced more gold than this in proportion to its population ? and what have we received in return ? — why, nothing, literally nothing ; and rsully to pursue this subject further is positively sickening. How long this state of things is going to last Heaven only knows. On my late visit last week at Liverpool's and the New River, as I anticipated several parties had left. Dick and party have struck payable gold on the terrace ; they have been engaged in taking in a tunnel for some considerable time back, the particulars of which I will give you in my next. The rush to Cock a Bulla Creek has not turned out so well, there are only some three or four parties at work now, tmjjjtjbmrn is - a considerable amount of prospecting being carried on in the neighborhood of the New River. Italian Gully is quiet and steady, and I believe the parties who have made up their minds to i Jocate themselves there for some time, are satisfied at their prospects. Since writing the foregoing all communication has been cut off between here and Greymouth since the 2nd inst, as the bridge at the mouth of the Stillwater Creek is still left unrepaired, and there is no ferry boat.