NO TOWN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1162, 19 April 1872, Page 2

NO TOWN.

[from a correspondent.] April 16. The rain which has fallen iv this locality since the 10th inst. has amply satisfied the requirements of everybody, and, judging from the amount of gold sold in No Town since Friday last, those unavoidable and heavy accumulations in the various storekeepers' ledgers; 'caused by the long drought, should now, if not entirely effaced, stand greatly lessened, which doubtless will be the same in .other districts. With Cockney Terrace 1 left off my last week's report, since which Egden and mates, after, driving some 400ft, '-struck payable gold. 'These parties aierat the Joyce's Gully ( end of Cockney Terrace, and it is expected this will prove to them a pile claim. '"-'•'■ At the rush lip" the left-hand branch of No Town Creek the sinking proves deeper than first anticipated." J> ! Sharky i&e already down 36ft with their shaft, and will no doubt bottom before this is in print ; for the result many are anxiously waiting. : ' . - v;■ Improvements in No Town are weekly developing themselves. Messrs William Campbell and Co. : are about erecting a more suitable two-storey store on the site they now occupy^- -and-j udging-from the drawings, it will not pnly be an acquisition to the appearance of the township, but reflects taste combined ; with convenience on the spirited and enterprising proprietors. Also an old and respected townsman, a producer of the staff of life, is building himself a new and substantial habitation preparatory to the inclement season now setting in. A hair-cutting saloon, : by 'F. Stanhope, has also been started, being only an instalment of one of the long-deferred requirements.- -The new and tasteful decorations at the Union and No Tbwii Hotels are deserving of notice. The proprietor also of the Shamrock Hotel is about repairing the encroachments by a late flood in Tramway street, but- the difficulty to repair the damages to Brunner Parade, ; caused} ; by the same flood, will not be so easily remedied. The one effectual way of saving the remaining little now left of the lower part of the Parade would be turning the bed of the creek through some' old-work-ings, which was its original course ; the distance is' short," only a few chains, and the expense would be small.-. If done, a< double house frontage to the. now Parade could be obtained, and volunteers may be iound who would do, the work for .the business sites which fche bed of the 'creek now covers. ' Then those' unsightly pieces of lumber now spanning the creek, called a tramway bridge, could be dispensed with, and the danger' they cause to inebriates at night, and to' property, at flood times, would then be no longer a' source of complaint. / . - The first Warden's and Resident Magistrate's Court' in No Town will be held on Wednesday, the 24th inst. . .