NELSON CREEK.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 February 1869, Page 3

NELSON CREEK.

(from an occasional correspondent.) February 2. The dry and intensely warm weather we have lately had has dried up all the small stores of water, so that washing-up has been out of the question. The ground in the vicinity of Dry Gully has been rushed during the past week, and several parties are either sinking shafts or putting in tunnels, to test it. There is no doubt but that the run of gold will yet be traced, and found to extend up the high terrace towards the head of German Gully. It has generally been supposed that the reef crops out of the surface, or nearly so, all over thai part ; but experience proves that there i deep"ground there, containing a beautifu sample of coarse, water-worn gold. Som of the croakers — and their name is legionhave pronounced Try-again Terrace to b used up, while others who look a littl< into matters cannot but see many year: of profitable work before them, if they have a mind to set in to work. But, unfortunately for themselves, miners are apt to be led away by reports of rushes at a distance, well-knowing that there are thousands of acres of gold-bearing country about the part they are leaving. These matters, I suppose, affect themselves only, and one has, perhaps, no right to interfere in the matter, still nineteen out of every twenty miners cannot contradict the fact, if they have been mining for any length of time, that they would. b< far better off both in pocket and healtl had they been less erratic in their movements. We are to suppose that the election is over, and that a candidate has been elected to represent the Nelson Southwest Gold Fields. It is to be earnestly hoped that he will bear in mind, whoever he may be, that there have been for years in the Grey district proper thousands of miners disfranchised through the apathy or indifference of the authorities to have polling places at the several centres of population, and that such gross injustice requires remedying.