NELSON" CREEK,

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 501, 1 April 1869, Page 3

NELSON" CREEK,

.. _ t(from our own correspondent,) Tuy -Again Teruace, March 28. After nearly four months of dry weather, the late heavy rain has been very acceptable ; it has enabled all who had their dirt stacked to wash up, and, without mentioning names, I may say that some returns have been singularly handsome, while others seem to grumble because more could not be got than £5 per week. At German Gully matters are going on as usual. The population is about 30, ; aU of whom seem to be settled down to permanent work. Attached to each dwelling is a small piece of ground, cleared and cultivated, and everything around having an air of comfort and cleanliness. The tail race of Abraham and party to which 1 alluded some time ago, is being carried on, and out of the entire length thereof, viz., half-a-mile, one half has been completed. The Bishop of Nelson paid a very hasty visit up here last week, and delivered a very eloquent address at Mr Pennefather's Hotel. Considering that scarcely more than an hour elapsed between his arrival, and the delivery of his discourse, the attendance was very fair. A great number of miners have arrived Tiere lately, some of them from Greenstone and some from Noble's. At a point about two miles north-east from the Upper Township, there appears to be quite a stir at present, the sinking is very shallow, and the runs of gold narrow, paying from one to six grains to the dish. The ground hereabouts, and still further up the creek, would be prospected and worked if there were tracks, so that provisions could be packed to them. There is no doubt but .that if the Government would expend a few pounds in laying out tracks some distance up Nelson Creek terraces, a great many men would be induced thereby to prospect a country which is at present a terra incognita. For the last two or three days the residents in and around the Twelve-mile Landing have been much put about through the vagaries of Mr George Bidgood, a publican and butcher residing there. It appears that Mr Bidgood left his house on Friday morning last, without intimating where he was going to. Not showing liimself on the Saturday or Sunday, his friends mustered in great foree — some parties led by Sergeant Sweeney, of Camp Town, also by Mr Langdon, and Mr John Watkins, scouring the bush in all directions. About 4 p.m. on Monday Mr Bidgood put in an appearance, and on being first spoken to by some strangers to the district, he asked, "Have the men returned who have been looking for me ?" It is supposed that he was never more than a few hundred yards from his home, and must have subsisted on some vegetables in a garden hard by. Whatever amusement Mr Bidgood has derived from such conduct is difficult to imagine. It has, to those of the search party, been a source of great anxiety> annoyance, and expense, and he has by such unwarrantable a proceeding forfeited the esteem of his friends whom he so heartlessly hoaxed. Mr Dutton paid his last official visit up this district, accompanied by our future Warden, Mr Lowe. While we Tioped that Mr Dutton might have approximated to the value our late respected Warden, Mr Lightband was held in ; so do we hope, now that Mr Lowe is amongst us, that his career will be successful, and his policy such as to encourage by every means the settlement of the miners on the gold fields. A young man was crushed literally to atoms at Ms claim, Upper Township, yesterday. I was shown by Messrs Hayden and Rankin a splendid piece of water-worn gold, weighing over four ounces, which was got by a party working here. It appears .we need not go to Inglewood to hunt for nuggets.