THE RUSH TO NEW SOUTH WALES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 200, 30 November 1871, Page 7

THE RUSH TO NEW SOUTH WALES.

The "Sydney Morning Herald J of October 6th, gives the folloing items regarding the mining prospects at Gulgong, Sydney, to ' which, place several miners have lately gone from here :—: — "•- The returns from Gulgong have kept up an average of rather moro than 2000 ozs. per week, the fortnightly escort ranging from 4000ozs. to 50000z5.. The "old leads — the Black and Happy' Valley—are— are being' gradually extendea as claim after claim strikes gold^ until there are now over, thirty frontage claims on j rich or payable wash, whilst many block claims' on" the wings of the ' frontage' .are^gettiij'gft fair ,dirt. One, \ pjaim on', the Happ'^TYalley lead was

recently reported to have struck very rich waahdirt getting as much as 25 ozs. to the load; and several other washings have been reported Which reach very nearly to that amount of yield. la addition to this there have been two new leads on which gold has been struck, whilst the shallower digginns are gradually extending. Our last news brought us accounts of a rush to a gully in the vicinity of Reedy Creek, only a mile or two from the township. The Three-mile Bush is being steadily worked, and Eapp's Gully, which w«is not much thought of when first taken up, is now beginning to develope a good amount of payable ground. There is, no d^ubt, a very considerable amount of auriferous ground in this district, and with the large population now on the spot, there is every chance that the whole country will get a fair overhauling before Gulgong. is on the wane. In the meantime diggers are flocking from all quarters to the township ; from Queensland, from Victoria, and even from New Zealand, men continue to arrive almost daily, and the latest computation was that there were at least eight thousand persons on the Gulgong goldfield. Unforately the great majority of these are not in employment, and consist of men who have come to the spot in search of work, or in the hope oF setting in on their own account. The work on the leads and on the shallow diggings is limited, and th?t there is little employment for wages men, except shepherding on the lines of lead ; while those having money are compelled to lie idle until opening offers for the investment of their capital and labour. There Jias been some little excitement here over the promulgation of the new frontage regulations recently framed by the Government. It was not likely that, with a system faulty in itself, there would be any chance of adopting regulations likely to make it work smoothly. The frontage system has always been a kind of miner's chimera, longingly sought for, but never satisfactorily grasped, since it has always been found impossible to make that work by regulations which was unworkable in itself.