LITTLE GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 682, 2 June 1870, Page 4

LITTLE GREY.

It is reported that a few parties are out prospecting among the head waters and tributaries of the Grey River. Two parties are working about fourteen miles above Mackley's. The Brown Grey comes into the main river in this locality, and it is said that gold, which would pay small wages, exists almost everywhere in the locality,; if it were not for the great difficulty of getting supplies arid provisions. Some time since a party of four men were making 30s a day on 'the reaches of the river, about 25 miles from the Junction, but they run the gold out. Mr Mackley, having such a good personal knowledge of the Upper River, will no doubt devise some means of having the country opened up in that' direction. Something will have to be done, or else the people cannot be kept irom leaving the upper. river. I have been informed, on good authority, that the bulk of the population at the Saddle, and on the Inangahua River, is slowly but surely making its way towards the head of the Buller and Lyel rivers, and their tributaries. Storekeepers over the Saddle find it more advantageous to obtain their supplies from the Buller than from the Grey, and this is entirely owing to the absence of any practicable means of communication with our seaport, and the consequent high price of provisions. The Greymouth merchants should look to this, it most nearly concerns them, for as the mineis move on the business people will follow them. There are a few parties working at Boatman's and Redmond's Creeks, Murray's, Soldier's, Nathan's, and the numerous other gullies, and they still maintain a steady population, but I believe the ground is very poor as a rule. The road overland to the. Buller has been much damaged by the late floods, but it won't remain long in that state, for any obstaclethat interferes with the trade or prosperity of the Buller will soon be removed if the inhabitants of that place can do it; and somehow they do manage, by hook or by crook, to get what loose Government cash there is floating about spent in their locality. •