DAYLESFORD.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 30 August 1864, Page 3

DAYLESFORD.

August, 18. This morning a specimen weighing forty-six ounces was found by the Sluicing Company on Blanket Flat, in old shallow ground, 200 yards from the Corinella Company, and"near the Great Extended. It is supposed that there are forty ounces of gold in the specimen. The Wombat Creek Extention Company's machinery was successfully started to-day. Sydney. August 18. The wool sales to-day exhibited a firmer tendency. A slight advance was established. Ben Hall's gang have again visited Chisholme's station. They took three horses. Fifteen hundred ounces of gold have been obtained from thirty-five tons of stuff, taken from a claim on the "Wentworth Goldfield. The French war Nereid has 500 soldiers for New Caledonia and Tahiti. Five bales of Colonial alpaca wool have been valued in London at Is. lid. to 2s. 4d. ; llama, lOd. Markets unchanged. The cargo of Chilian flour, ex Glencaple, rejected by purchasers as unsound, for sale by auction to-morrow. 19th August. Mr. Dean has sold the entire cargo of flour, ex Glencaple—loo tons sound, £16 to £16 10s. ; seventy tons, much damaged, £10 7s. 6d. ; balance, slightly damaged, £14 12s. 6d. to £14 15s. The flour market is reported firmer. A party of police, under Sir F. Pottmger, encountered a bushranger, who fired at Sergeant Corded, near Wheogo, yesterday. A regular bush fight took place. A number of sh ts ware* exchanged. The police horses got bogged, and the bushranger escaped. The police are still on the track. Trade is quiet. The banks have fixed their rate of exchange on London at sixty days' sight, for the outgoing mail, at par. Adelaide, August 18. The balance of the cargo of sugars, ex Sarah, from Mauritius, was offered at auction to-day, but only a few bags were sold, ■as the 'trade refused* to give importer's Iprices. . ' Large sales of wheat have been made to-day at 7s. -3d. v Flour has been sold to-day at from £17 to £18 per ton, but for silk-dressed, £18 to £19 is asked,

A farmer, a man well known here, writes to the South Australian Register to-day, offering to find tenants for eighteen sheep-runs, comprising together 1,044 square miles, at a gross rental of £59,000 per annum. The same area of land, he says, is now yielding only about £4,300 pel* annum. There is more inquiry for wheat. Sales made 7s. 3d. for port delivery. . Flour, £17 to £19. A cargo of sugar and coffee oftered at auction to-day. Only 700 bags of the former sold at former rates. Seven leases of Crown lands were offered at auction. Only two sold. Highest thirty-four square miles, £17 rental. 19th August. Wheat has heen sold to-day at 7s. 6d. per bushel. Country flour is worth £18 per ton, but town silk-dressed flour is worth from £19 to £20 per ton. Letters received from the far north describe the country as in a great want of rain. In the cattle market, the best bullocks are £9 to £13 ; do. cows, £8 to £11 ; sheep, prime, 17s. to 20s.

Beechwoktii, August 18. Tho Muraungee prospectors bottomed their shaft to-day, at a depth of 210 feet. The wash dirt is five feet high. The first dish they tried yielded lOdwt. Several other dishes of stuff were afterwards washed arid yielded still more.