SOUTH BEACH.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1418, 15 February 1873, Page 2

SOUTH BEACH.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Co-operative Company may now be numbered with the past, the heavy rain previous to Christmas having flooded the claim to such an extent that it took some weeks before the company could resume work, and then only in the mid.dle. lead, which had been partially tried previously, and Which was ; f blind W&> answer expectations. The Hit or Miss— the adjoining claim south— is in full working order ; the one nearer the gardens has been abandoned. After many vicissitudes of fortune, the Perseverance claim on the Lagoon lead is again spoken of as likely to pay the present share,* holders. Englert and Co. "arg still gronnd-sluicmg, with their usuaf perseverance, though want of water is much' retarding them. The parties who flumed the water across the lagoon are said to have done well since they commenced, but like everyone else are now waiting for water ; in fact, this want is universally felt. The Leviathan Co. are now sluicing with tbeir own water instead of getting it, as they did formerly. Obly two or three parties are using it now ; no dqubt they wijl find it to answer th,ew* expectations iusfc a? well, ■..'•.' The Great" Extended* are working on their lease, Watson's Lead, behind the Half-way Hotel. They have been repairing one of their dams lately, so as to secure a larger quantity of water in dry weather. Their present lease will take them a long time to work, and it is to be hoped that it will pay them well. Barker and Company are yet working on Watson's Lead, as also are Colton and Company. The payable nature of this lead is too well known, and the only regre^ is that from the Australasian Hotel to the 4 Nelson Creek very little now remains to tie sluiced. From Nelson Creek towards Paroa some portion has been worked, but there is a good length that will no doubt be run away in course of time, particularly as the Leviathan water commands the whole of it. Dowljng and Company have been working on the same line be* hind Paroa, therefore it may be expected to continue along the terrace. 'It tfffl te remembered that when applications were made about two years since to lease ground on this terrace, the principal 1 bbjection raised against it was that % was auriferous, and would be required ; for mining, so that it may be confidently expected that the present wateivraee cam" panics will find prbfitablS work %r/ine next few years. " " ' w *" , Some surprise has b,een manifested by the residents on the Beach that no action has yet been tak^n to conatruot the xci

maining portion of the road to the town boundary. The Road Board should retaember that unless the road is finished, or in course of construction, prior to the end of the financial year in June, that the money due to them under the Public Works Act will lapse, and a public injury will be done. The money is now forthcoming, and the Road Board will be only doing their duty in showing a little more expedition in applying it at once, and not place themselves in the same position as they did last year in getting work done when the money had lapsed. Let there be action and then there will be work and money for a number of men who are looking forward for that time.