THE CALEDONIAN.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 245, 14 May 1868, Page 2

THE CALEDONIAN.

Only one claim, the prospector's, has yet been worked out on this terrace, while the principal claims are increasing in the yield of gold. On Ballarat Hill, opposite Braithwaite's, the lead of gold has been struck nearly as rich as Braithwaite's. On the German Terrace the gold is steadily maintaining an increased produce. On the Poverty Terrace, now about being called Perseverance Terrace, the late increase has been as remarkable as silent. A month ago only two or three claims were being worked there ; now about ten are in operation, and nearly a mile and a-half of the terrace is occupied, approaching to within a couple of miles—in a straight line—of the town of Westport. The claims here are yielding from <£4 to <£lo per man per week. In fact the whole formation is a diluvial deposit, which is variously intersected •at different heights (alias deposits of different ages) by leads of gold, all running generally parallel to the beach, or a little off due north, which is the only guide the miner can go by with the exception of washing out prospects, as the ages of deposit are various, although the direction is pretty generally constant. For instance, permission has been asked for driving tunnels over tunnels, as in our railways at home, and on the Ballarat HiJl claims exist one hundred feet over other claims, tunnels being driven immediately at the extremity of the lower claims, starting above the bed rock.

All the preliminaries of a good permanent track, similar to that to Addison's are completed, and we expect it will be immediately commenced, as it only awaits instructions from Nelson.