GREENSTONE

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 527, 3 June 1869, Page 2

GREENSTONE

(from our own correspondent.) May 31. News from the Greenstone is at a stand' still, and unless one almost goes into personalities, there 13 absolutely nothing in the. way of mining news different from last week's' Kipprt. A claim on the Duke of -Edinburgh' Terrace washed something like a pennyweight to the dish on Friday last. This, of/course, created a,small rush, and file, ground will now bo taken up in all directions by those who are determined to settle down for their winter quarters on the Greenstone. Had such a prospecting been obtained in the earlier days of the Greenstone, hundreds would now have rushed to the ground, where only some dozen men are idly looking around, and choosing; their own fancy claims. There is no doubt at all but the Eight-mile has a great deal to do with the apathy now displayed by the miners on the Greenstone. An exodus has set in to that place, and although bad accounts are received from there, numbers are still wending their way, as they think, to the new Eldorado. The prospecting shaft on the Terrace is now almost at a stand-still until fine weather sets in, some forty feet having already been sunk, and there they remain until the wstnr has got the upper hand of them. Should fine weather prevail there is little doubt but that the shaft will be bottomed in a couple of weeks or so. The men who committed the outrage on Rosanna Boyle are not yet in the hands of the police, although strong suspicions ar§ entertained that they have not left the Greenstone yet ; indeed, one man has already been taken up for usingthreateuing language to her, and warning her "not to say anything, or else it would be worse for her." Gold is acrain struck on the Argus Terrace No. 2, but so few men being here it will remain in the hands of those who believe in the old adage, " a rolling stone gathers no moss."