SOUTH BEACH.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1311, 11 October 1872, Page 2

SOUTH BEACH.

[JFKOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] October 9. The Perseverance Company, on the Lagoon Lead, are in full working order, and have fair prospects of making up for lost time. Englert and Company, who devoted many months to make preparations to ground-sluice the northern portion of the old lead, are now fully occupied. The numerous claims that are being worked along the beach and the inside terrace are coining up to expectation. The Co-operation are getting on with the new paddock. It seems good gold can be traced under the new road, and some parties have applied for permission to mine under it. The Hit or Miss, after thoroughly trying their ground with the aid of a small wheel, have determined to erect a larger one, as the water is very troublesome, and likely to be more so when their neighbors, the Co-operation, have worked up to their boundary. Persons are beginning to inquire how long the absurd arrangements with respect to Post Office's between Greymouth and Hokitika are going to continue, and whether they are to be perpetrated for ever. It seems that any letter posted in Hokitika for Paroa has to be sent to Greymouth, and then returned the next day. This has been the practice hitherto, and has proved very unsatisfactory, causing much inconvenience. When there are letters and papers posted in Hokitika for parties where there is a Post Office, surely the time has arrived that the Post Office officials ought to make up a bag, as that would be the only trouble, and no extra expense. As as new postal era will soon commence it is very much to be desired that the present unsatisfactory arrangements should be discontinued, and every facility given to correspondents to have their communications delivered as quickly as possible, without the needless delay of a day. If there is a daily mail from Hokitika to Greymouth, via Greenstone, Marsden also ought to have a bag made np from Hokitika as well as Greymouth. It is sincerely to be trusted that the postal authorities will see the folly of not doing so r as it is of the utmost importance to the public that no unnecessary delay should take place. No. 2 section of the road between Paroa and Greymouth town boundary is being proceeded with, and it is understood that the remaining section will be let in the course of a few days. Some parties; passengers by the Albion, give a very discouraging account of New South Wales. They state that it is full of miners, and that thousands upon thousands are walking about and know not what to do. The cry is there that on the West Coast there is always a little gold to be found, and many are wishing themselves back again,'