NEW RIVER DISTRICTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 659, 9 April 1870, Page 3

NEW RIVER DISTRICTS.

(FROM Ol'K OWN CORRESPONDENT.) "■■■'"'■ ■■'■ ■ ' ■ ■ Apfil'U ■ Mibirig in "this disferibt niay bfe' said to be progi'esbing since the great rii^li to No^ Name. :The population seem t(>^be nioi 1 ©; settled, and -there has not :,Heen that movingfropi place to place. Tvhijjft is so usual witii .miners. Thisistobejtccounted for' partially from the absence (if en-' couraging news coming from c%gr-p3f tfi, ' whether it be Hokitika, or up'fcHe^wy. Certainly, the many old 'minors' : who haW : lately returned" from Melbourne, 'aind. who have given such discouraging account of mining in Australia, have tended .greatly to, -keep the .-population settled /for the present. It is not because theytare over' fortunate, "vdlere they are, butf asimany remark, " where can we go t$ do better. Here we can clear our expensesjind a note or two over, and it ia better^lp remain r till some new gold field bjtf&iksj out in some other part of , the' world; 1 than to go to Auckland or Adelaide, whefe certain starvation is to be met Avith."_^uch being the statements of thebulk of the population, it is almost unnecessary „{*>.. say" that there 4s very, little startling news, to chronicle." True it is that Mosquito is v^|high.lycspoken.of< , One, patty are reported as doing remarkably well; and as two or three parties are expected^to be in "with their tunnels shortly, moreiiuthentic iiifbrmatiori'can then be givtetf' as !to how ;i it will ultimately turn out. Several par-^ tft-^are working at Irishman's %nd' Cock ■ jihd are chiefly in tiinnel-lin^/'Cock-a^Bnlla seems i to maintain the usual . njimber of miners, arid the s&mfe way be said of the Left-hand branch of the New River, : '''- i ' 1J " i *" The claims at No Name, are now. in full ■working order, and business on the whole is certainly improving. Thereis no doubt thafc a Lirgo population . will be kept .here for; some! time,- for: :af ter the terraces are •workßd'<)ut, the large'flat at Peterborough will be taken up and worked. Tlie deep shaft that was sunk some short time since fully- proved that it was payable, butithe absence of sufficient means has caused the ground- to<be. temporally abandoned. : The contractors are making great progress with the "road between Marsden and Nemona, \fhetrtfiisris~ 'completed it will prove of great service not only to the present population at "Nemona^but also to the Greenstone^eople •who^may, Jiavia. •b^usme^io traslact.at iSreymou,th. i - : > v '"\-;> :