SOUTH BEACH.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1544, 17 July 1873, Page 2

SOUTH BEACH.

' : f FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT;]: ■ ' '••='! ; - : '' .'i : V '"' ■'."'' '' " : . M l i i^'.i^';. l The : Great 'Extended jCpmpahy, Waiter.' . havin^fepoounte^d, a ;^©Ht (manyp^stacies j in opening the' ground Behind the Halfway Hotel,j fflay, apw, be ;^aid ( tor be! ina/ ■fair way ; t6#nake uptforspast deficiencies^ They are. no w| fairly jset into' the lead^an'a they are very sanguinS that it will rewSrd* them ,f or „ their... labor. ., ..The Hit . or MissCompany is the only party that is now making use of a wsvter-wheeljJand they adopt the same easy method of working as used to be pursued' by their late' neighbors, the Co-operative, j Ooltonjand^o. are still ground-sluicing on Watson's Lead. Barker and, Co. are also groundsluicing on the. t same lead, whilst the Leviathan Company are' working a little way from the , bridge, over NelsonlCreek; : Dowling and Co. have made a great opening at the back of Paroa,; arid are increas-' ing it everyday. - - A di ) • ' The character okWatspn's Lead is : so well known for its being payable that it'js< almost superfluous' to' saytlnt all these parties get handspmely.rejivarded for their labor, and vthejrpnly regret, -istrthatevery/i day the (ground. becomes ; leßs r , arid twooi" three years at . aost^Dse^the 'wKole of? '

jthis wonderful and once magnificent lead [thoroughly worked out. The other usual residents of the Beach are still to be found there, I in 'fact; what with a little extra Band rwhich the sea throwß up occasionally, and the sluicing-ground they manage to find here and there, they succeed in making fair wages. Thjsrearea rfewrnrinßrs^wtirkiHg^on^tKS^olS^ lead, whilst some are to r be -found on 'the beach, having flumedthe Vater across the lagoon. The Black Sand lead at the .back -of-PaToa-stm^b^is^f^a^a^ing^S?* phine, the noise # pfj;whiqk^s to be heard from the tram?roadV 3t .' . '.■■ \ The remaining portion of the Paroa road to Greymouth fair way of being completed jhoirti^ahd so far has been most creditably •peirlormed by the cpntratßtors, Co. , It is certainly^ ; time 'spme^a'ptiph r was', italten Aby ' Borbrigh CbpricU t(i '^rfo^ the>gr,eenient to f on9trupt",!tlieir gp^ipiik' by the time the Paroa ,l^o3^6o^^ [have finished theirs; The Rb'ad'Boa'rd is much toi:be applauded for -the i way the^have. persevered in carrying outithi's'pafticirl&r---wprk> butiprjthe other; rlittle, affair: they have in! h u and, the .public, ar6;lpud;inf.coh- > demning it as a work,, that,, wasr not ,sp ufgeritly^equired'^' btheri: ' ' It'is a^kecl lt what r was, , the | ' b^ject. ',Jin { \ : jma|kirig V ;t," although there will, no : dpnibt,'j t -be} j ; lafn1 afn large population round Manukau Fiat in the course of years, when the New River Water ;Race is conveyed ■ there, : yet the few thdt- 'are * in- 'thatqpart now' could/, hardly havtf justified that body^ : in making" ll it, had they noftaken' that^view'Slik" ! There isda doubt^that-tHriy- ! ctiuld'liSye lkidvout'this-inonejr '" ]vM 'now'jffiinakln^ r'oa'ds^to plabeg 1 mtich [ f .inb'reiTeij'airea^tian;;" . what they are" now "doing, 1 aua'f or ! wnicn! '' jthey are now much blamed. The. neces- -. <sity of makirig 5 a : horse- trackifiom^Marcc[en}tQ:.Cameroh's, Tertac'eLißl'very apparent. At ;the> present' £time it is dangerous to pack any— provisions Jo that pla r ce^partioal'a%%f'fer' aTe wlio'uirrMi ]|t is only a few weeks siuce^tßM'W^ari' w ties were nearly, drowned.in.doingao,-and=^= -jjet/there ( i^>nothing idpne^tpsrjQnedyi thisT ejvil." However .this/mußt !be>aeen to as it\« is urgently required, and w.ould projye a cmvenierice to many miners' who* are now working between "No 'NanJe l %nd Came/r m's. Tf the Road . Board had spent the money in^makfng;' thw 1 tract' itKey wciuld have been doing" a' great ''^opb! fo' f a£Mji»t njany, instead^of^cL, they r^verXit, and consequently get ..censured for doing