UP-RIVER DIGGINGS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 689, 18 June 1870, Page 3

UP-RIVER DIGGINGS.

(PROM dUR tiWN CORKESPONDBST.) Napoleon, June .15. The rash to the quartz; reef which is said to have been discovered on the Inangahua, over the Saddle, and : the development of the lead at Half-ounce Creek, have principally engrossed the attention of the miners for the past week. You will find a reliable account of the latter place in this letter, and as for the former a discovery " miners have enough sense by this time, or if they havn't they ought, i»pt to pay any attention to every vcbck-and-bnli story. they hear from that part, pf the country. .-We. have, seen several generations of quartz miners crop lup from that quarter; where are they all gone now ? " Why, gone where.the woodbine twineth, &c/ 1 The Golden Flower reef and its enterprising proprietors, some of whontwere good judges of other things besides quartz, threw ua_ into a feverish state of excitement some months ago, but disappeared from public view a^auddenly as it made its' appearance arid left; no trace behind it. What has become of ipU Certainly we have seen " specimens," but the exhibition of a specimen or two no more makes a quartz reef than the .appearance of a few swallows make, a summer. The great injury these bogus rushes do to a district is that they draw men away from their regular work and unsettle their minds until the reports are either confirmed or proved to be false. The first Court held at Napoleon was held on June JO, at the Police Camp. The room was inconveniently crowded, but I understand the next Court will be held in the large room of M'Laughlin's hotel, in which case there.will be ample accommodation. There were no cases of importance in the Resident Magistrate's Court, and there were no money cases, .that is, none before the Court; but the Warden was bailed up in the street by the contending shareholders on the Mosquito Lead, and he had to settle their grievances there and then. After the exhibition of sundry plans which were produced, and sfeveral diagrams had been drawn on the ihingle3pntheendwallof the Scandinavian jlotel, %i» Worship succeeded ii^ getting | put of the dilemma by leaving thg matter the si|rreyf!r's hfthda. 'fh'e tpapV.t<)thoAhaura jsprogressing glowly, onaccount of the yerv tfnfftvorable* weather we have had recently. Smith's' contract} near the Ahaura township, is all

but completed, and the manner in which the contract has jbeeu, performed, reflects credit on tho contractor. ; Lardi's track to Half-Ounce is now the only means of reaching that important place .from here. This track led to tho opening .opt of that part of -the district. Had it not beqn for it, the present lead at work there would never have been heard of, and the place would have remained as it was befqre-ran impeßetrable^ore^t. v , The late. rains liaye Ifeen yeVy b^neficiSj to the sluiccrs about Old Noble's. I intend, in a future letter, to give a detailed description of the workings ,pn thjs,creek f;for this' iis,' aftiej: alif> the best* part of the Napoleon district Its" population has been steadily maintained, in spite of the new rushes, which . have taken place', and the yield hi gold) has I always been kept up to a fair average ' wages rate. . '■