GREY VALLEY GOLD-FIELDS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1818, 3 June 1874, Page 2

GREY VALLEY GOLD-FIELDS.

[from a correspondent.] If mining news is meagre this week, we cannot complain of excitement existing in a quarter from which we least expected it, viz., the change in the Executive. Nothing could have created such an amount of probable conjectures as to •". who y woukhbe- " who,"^whett»w»>firßt heard o£ the defeat of our Provincial Government ; and the climax was attained when. jreached us of^E^Jg.X^on^r being installed into an r office wnicTTKas been held unititerrupfedly.-for_lß years by one professedly attached, but who, through impotent and old-schooled politicians, had become thoroughly imbued with red-tapeism and Sleepy Hollow ideas. We cannot, as a community, fora moment rake upon ourselves to r say that Eugene. did not, leave us (after his last campaign through, the district) disgusted, and shook the dust off his' manly feet, vowing internally never to set foot in that outlandish and remote" spdt,! -where 'Jhe was received by uncouth 'diggers : with derision, and by the- balance of,jthe/inhabitants with laughter. Still, forge^an.d forgive, we trust will be his mojito^and if we failed to see or appreciate his capacity as a .Superintendent, we t hope tba/t' pur good sense will -no ( t' debar us f rom besiowing upon him thai mee^ of ~praise' : as\ a Secretary and Treasurer . when, he merits it. .- ; . . , '/.'. Now forlocarevents : : Imprimus— The great gun in our district, the MHuciistetter Water-race, is : dragging ;it a ■ slow . length along, and .by that remark I, don't mean to imply but what, "under its 'energetic management, it is not going ahead 'as fast and prosperously as it ought to dp ; but what I mean is thit if more labor was employed, there Would be more money in circulation in its immediate district, which would give an impetus, ,to trade which at the present time is' at (Stagnation point. However, we'll "waif a' wee," and not venture too severe a criticism on a new undertaking. ' ' '"' ■■ r T " ; • | I see the Road Board have called a special 'meeting for Thursday n^xt', at no/m, to take into . consideration a r communication received from ' Messrs Roche and Co., proprietors of the Nekdn'Greek? Water-race [.Company^/, who .propose to make the track from Hatter's to Owen's Look-out, providing the Board will subsidise them ' to ' the ' amount of LlOOj thereby, as they .(Roche and Co.)-'say', saving an expense to' the Board of L2OO, seeing .that i L3OO has been placed ,'on the Estimates for this work. As the point will be, thoroughly ventilated at , the meeting I forbear . remarks. ,