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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 89, 23 October 1869, Page 5

A fair share of success continues to attend the diggers working on Suisgill tou^the gains for tlie past iveek being considered equal to that of any former week since gold-digging commenced. Those that were fortunate lost no time in renewing their licenses on the Ist instant, and are now busy working in their old claims. Most of those that worked on Kildonan Burn left the diggings when their licenses for the month of June expired, their earnings at that place having been very poor for some time past. A portion of them purposed trying their luck at Suisjjill, but on ascertaining that the mining limits were not to be extended this month, they could not be induced to commence Avork on the old claims. As yet the demand for liceuses is far from brisk, and the number issued up to Saturday last amounts only to forty. There is not much prospect that the demand will improve, and to all appearance, unless new ground is opened up'and fresh encouragement given, the existence of the diggings can only be prolonged for a few months. A few small nuggets have lately been picked up at Suisgill, the largest one, we are informed, weighing loz. 7dwt.—"Scotsman, July 10. For several weeks past most of the diggers at Suisijill bum have had a run of very fair luck, but now their claims are running out, and as a consequence the yield of gold was very limited last week. Those who are employed on good workings are- still doing very well, but they are few in number, and the majority are now getting loud in their' complaints that the diggings are doing no good. Th.3 hope was prjtty general for some time that new allotments of ground would be given out, but now the*-e is little expectation of this, and a general scattering of the diggers at the close of this month will be the probable result. Ths majority of those now engaged at the diggings are old hands, with colonial experience, out on their holidays, and whose only desire is to make as much as will pay the expenses of their sojourn in Sutherlandshire. They are casting longing eyes on the flats along the river of Helmsdale, where they believe gold would be found in paying quantities ; but the working of those flats would interfere with the rights of the sheep fanners, who find the best of their pasture along the river bauks, so that there is little likelihood of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland extending the digging area beyond the districts now being worked. It is thus believed that gold digging in Sutheriandshire is now about over. Since last week's report only about twenty licenses have been issued, and the total nuyf'ber for the month is only ninetyfive, which is far below the lowest number of any month since the commencement of the diggings in this quarter.— lbid, 31st July.