VICTORIA.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 917, 5 July 1871, Page 2

VICTORIA.

A Stratford correspondent of the Gipps Land Mercury, Ist June, states that he lately stumbled on a party of miners at Lee's Creek, who had been making good wages in a claim abandoned a year ago. They were getting good coarse gold, and seemed well satisfied with the results. Lee's Creek is about ten miles north of Pope and Co's claim at Upper Gladstone. No doubt all the tributaries of Freestone Creek, of which Lee's Creek is one, are more or less auriferous. \ , % . M The Trentham correspondent of the Kyneton Guardian, 3rd June, writes : — Two men have been getting payable gold for some time at Daniel's Creek, about four miles from Trentham. The other day they unearthed a nugget weighing. 13lb. An extensive rush is the consequence. The locality where the big fellowwas found is not far from the Radmore flour mill, and the surrounding country looks favorable for gold. Another reef (says the M. A. Matt) has been struck in Crocodile Gully, not far distant from that discovered by Morrison and party. Very good prospects have been obtained. Gold has also been struck at Cattle's reef at a depth of 9Mt, between '« the claims known as Mr Kitto's and the * Messrs Roe's. Small and party, of Commissioner's Flat, Fryers, was yesterday (states the M. A. Mail, 7th June) showing some rich specimens taken from the bottom of their 206 ft shaft. Pieces of gold over loz weight were taken out of the quartz. The Corner Inlet correspondent of the Gipps Land Times, writing on June 5, says of the goldfield at Stockyard Creek : — " The week ending Saturday, June 3, ' has been a most prosperous one, in spite of the rainy weather, the yields of the various claims being unprecedentedly large. The population now is steadily : increasing, and it is calculated that by next spring there will be from 1000 to. 1500 men here. Following a,re the yields of gold that have come to my knowledge during to-day .-—Thatcher's party, 330z 16df?t in one week, the produce of about seven loads of washdirt. The gold from | this claim is chiefly of a heavy nuggetty ""' description, with a quantity of gold so. fine that the greatest difficulty is experienced hi cleaning, it. Beswick, about 31b ■ 2oz ; Rising Shine, 230z. ; Scotchman's, ijb nearly 21b; Varney Brothers, four men, ■ Boz ; the Lancashire, the Prussian, ;the- •-,. Mechanics, and others claimholders mani- v | fest a reluctance to give even an approximate account of their weekly returns, -

bu^ #6y have all been on gold during tlfe week, and are doing very well. The prospectors, in their new shaft, are driving along the boundary, and transversely to the boundary, with a good prospect, and are going to lay down a tramway to the creek for the purpose of washing. Langridge's claim gave about six ounces, I believe. The Grenadiers apparently were about to abandon their shaft on the flat, but owing to the rich yields on the same line they determined to recommend on Monday. The Big Log yield for the week was nothing to speak of ; they are sinking another shaft at the end of their boundary to prevent encroachment. I have to record the discovery of a seam of coal in South Gipps Land. It is on the Tarra, but beyond the fact that fine samples are being shown at the Port, no information has been furnished."