THE RUSH TO BEADSHAW TERRACE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 642, 7 April 1870, Page 2

THE RUSH TO BEADSHAW TERRACE.

Ever since the late rush to the south side of the Buller commenced, the weather has been most inclement and unfavorable to a fair trial of tho ground being made. In one or two cases, however, claim-holders have occupied the few intervals of fine weather in taking out small paddocks along the lead of gold as yet discovered, and the result has demonstrated that it is a good wages diggings. M'Master and his mate, who held ground at the northerly end of the lead, have amalgamated the proceeds of their first washing from a small paddock of twelve by seven feet, and the product has been of amalgam, or equivalent to £A 3s 9d worth of gold. They made this experimental washing without constructing a tail-race, and the water was naturally a considerable impediment to their securing all the available gold. Their computation is that, in some parts, the ground will be found to pay from £5 to £G per week, and generally not less than £3 per week. Encouraged by this experimental washing, numbers have taken up fresh ground, or adhered to their first choice, and there seems every likelihood of the early estimate of experienced miners being realised—that all the ground will be worked; and there seems no reason to doubt that, as suggested by the prospectors, the lead will be found to extend down the coast for a distance of several miles. It may yet be demonstrated also that richer or similar leads exist in the terrace, parallel to that which is now in course of being worked.