THE GREESTONE RUSH.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1198, 31 July 1874, Page 2

THE GREESTONE RUSH.

[register,] The following report has been kindly placed at our disposal by the Provincial Secretary:— Sergeant M'Ennis reports for the information of the Commissioner "of Police, that he visited the rush at P.evelPs Terrace to-day, and found matters progressing very favorably there. There are now about twent} rfive tunnels being driven in face of the terrace, and about there it presents a very lively appearance. Many of the frontage claims are said to have obtained payable prospects, and all those to whom the sergeant was talking, appear to hayo good hopes, that the rush will turn out well. On the terrace there are a number of claims pegged out, but only four shafts are as yet being sunk. None of these have bottomed, but Bigg and party are now down ninety feet, and expect to bottom at thirty feet more. They appear to be pretty confident of being rewarded for their labour. Several parties having claims on the terrace are driving tunnels through' ho frontage claims to their ground, but a number are awaiting the result of the bottoming of Bigg and party's shaft before venturing on the expensive work of sinking shafts to prospect the ground. It is expected that the pioneer shaft will bottom in the course of two or three days, and the result of this will to a great extent prove the rush. It is hard to estimate closely the number of men now on the ground, but there are fully two hundred. The Sergeant went up by the new track, now in course of making, and finds that it is only about a mile and a half by that route to Revell's Terrace. The contractors are making very good progress with the work, and in about a month ths track will bo made to the rush. It will go right through the claims, aud extend about a mile further on.

F. M'Ejfxis, Sergcaut. Police Station, Greenstone, July 24, 1874.