GREY VALLEY DIGGINGS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1280, 5 September 1872, Page 2

GREY VALLEY DIGGINGS.

'- (^ROJt OUR OWN CORRESPQ^DKNT t ) j %i'.\ A l '"' < AH>o^^eptfi) < TH'e^ilttle Grey district is beginning to revive again, owing to the .hicrease of population recently, chiefly from the scarcity of employment on the Inangahua. iWUefij tM "•Sadaii rolidj'waa fiuiahed a great number were thrown out of work, r andrthey OT are-gradually.~scattering--tbem-" selves among the. plji shallow workings in' the Upper and'laiHe" Grey diggings. Ac- ; cordingly the ground at .Mossy, Snowar, •ahel Martin's Creek's, as well as'tho|e,an the districts of Antonio's .F.lat and MDori; Gully on the Saddle 'is again attracting, notice'.'^ There > ; i& ample rbbiri' iii tfie ex-; tensive district of: the 'Little Grey for a large population, and it is only a question ; of , time until .this ihithertp neglected ?part of the country is again occupied with a thriving community. r>? ' T H Anderson's par,ty, who, are for qiiartz; at the ' Head of ' one of the branches of the^Big River, have got, fairly •to 'wbrlt' again,' aftfer great delays bwingf to bad weather. t A track.,was' tp r be.cut from ; the 'Messrs Duncan's 1 sforie'; -by Svay ' of Merrijig, through , a rough and difficult country, in order to get i tools and provisions to the claim; The tunnel Anderson's party are taking in is kept going day and night, and it will soon be in far enough , to intersect : the supp.oded. line: of ithe reef, ' if any exists.. This attempt to ' trace the ' Inangahua quartz lodes; in:to,.the:Greyjpiptrict is looked .upon ..with- much interest; by the miners in the older gold fields. If 1 these pioneers should be succesaf ulin their [ present undertaiing,i't^.ere.wiil bea yast j tield^ppenedi for ithe exercise ot mining ; industry in : the ; ?Upper; Grey. ;," i j There are still rumors flying about that - parties' are 'and getting payable; gbldih the noighbdrhoocl bf-Square Town, 4)ut r-they- cannot- be-dcting~muchj»if)r«etee the good news would bg confirmed before this. ' ' i

Pceliminary, steps have been'taken with a a : view' to forming a .company. to test the,i]|t i below Try-Agaiu Terrace, Nelson Creek, i It is proposed tp apply; for a lease of an j area. for prospecting : purposes, and after- j wards deciding ! upon the , best inbde 1 of j testing the, ground. A tail-race. cqm-| .menced; at a point' just abqv.e . Drerinan's , farm Jwouid be the ihost certain means ', pi ! getting into the 'deep ground, but it has ! the objection ;pf being very expensive to i begin with. It is thought that after the ; tr t ve ■; position; of the deep,, ground ; was | ascertained, itwouldbe^mpst advisable to '[ bottom a shaft, with. the aid of pumps and a water-wheel. This latter plan will, in all probability, be the one adopted, but a final decision has not yet been arrived at.

The present fine weather just suits, the farmers, wfip are, throughout the Valley, busy putting in- their crops!' There will be a very great increase in the quantity of .new land broken up and cropped this season. The area will be nearly double in the Grey .district, and- more; than four times as much on the Inangahua as it was last season. Great preparations are being made to bring off the approaching ploughing match successfully. ; The members of the ■Association, -with their -friends and visitors, will dine together in the evening;-and-the-festivities-will-wind-upwith-a-ball and supper at-Mr Ja^nes .Marshall's new hotel at Totafa.' *^ The 'winner of the first prize, will ; haye, his^ name arid. .performance engraved on the haridsbriie silver 'enp r , ! t|e gift of ; Messrs ' Forsyth : an ! d Masters, before it is presented.! to, .him, on the award of the judges. Some remarks have been made by intending competitors as to the .of/ the -several : amounts offered aa prizes, but the commitree, no doubt,- (apportioned the- amounts as fairly las possible. Taking it altogether this»bi'ds ! i fair to be the most successful meeting of ■ any yet held under the of the Grey Vallfy j Agricultural Association. . M ! The amateur* entertainments at Ahaura, ! are to, be; discontinued .after,, then next j meeting. They answered the purpose ! which the promoters; of them .> intended , I admirably. . They, helped to while . away: I the long, hpiirs pf tlie Syiritep evenings,, 1 4n& as a rule. 'the Jad}os and ' gentlenien' !whfr : gave^tiieip services for thp' ''aqofiise-' meut ot the public acquitted themselves* well. [Our correspondent, in connection I \vith Jhjs_Bubjec't, ; refera |j n an exceedingly j amusing and satirical manner, to a letter which has appearddf^n" 'another publican tion regardino a criticism of his upon a certain' reading at a 'recent meeting.^ Oi 'reflection, our cprrespoHdent will pm-* Ibably agree- wittf 'us' tliat 'as he himself I expresses it, he ." can Ayell afford .to disjregard the ribaldry and scurrility bi the i'writer of ihe letter in question.]