NEW RUSH AT NO TOWN.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 611, 16 December 1869, Page 2

NEW RUSH AT NO TOWN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) December 14. An extensive rush has taken place during the week to a terrace situated.b,ej;ween the township and the place where Irishtown formerly stood, and nearly opposite Maori Gully No. 1. The prospectors Messrs Joseph Baz)lli, Dugenzi, aud party were on their way, to the Lake Brn nner District on a prospecting tour, and liking the appearance of the terrace they determined to take a tunnel into it. At eighty feet from the face payable prospeefs were obtained, and at 109 feet, wash dirt three feet in depth, and yielding a prospect of six pennyweights to the dish, was driven through. The bottom whs still clipping inwards, and the party continued the tunnel for the purpose of proving their eround. It is in a distance of 135 ft now. the wash-dirt is thicker, but the gold is becoming scattered, and the ground is beginning to make water. Although the portion of this terrace on which this claim is situated is comparatively new ground, this cannot be called a new terrace, for it was first proved to contain payable gold years ago. The old No Town lead was lost in the creek opposite Maori Gully, and sevei'al attempts to find it in this terrace have been previously made, with varying success, but this discovery is the best which has been made yet. I have it on good authority that in the claim which has caused this rush the party have driven for fifty feet through a deposit of washdirt of an average depth, of {.hree feet, and an average prospect of 3dwts to the dish. The bottom is composed of hardened sedimentary sand, of the same blue ,c^lor which exists in the present creek. Th' 3 ground is all taken up from Messrs Fisher and Co's claim, who aro working higher up the creek — it i 3 now supposed on the same lead for the last two years — to Messrs Comtninsand Co's claim, which is situated lower down near No Town. This lead may continue downwards;in the direction of the left-hand branch,in which case there is plenty ground to %c tried, but it is thought by miners, who are old residents in the vicinity, that it is merely a bend in the old lead, and if so, the place is over-rushed at present. There is nothing new to report from any other part of the district, and until the excitement this rush has caused subsides every other place will be comparatively neglected.