THE BERMAGUI RUSH.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3197, 20 October 1880, Page 3

THE BERMAGUI RUSH.

The Bega *■ Standard " says :—" Ohe sees men from all sorts of out-of-tho-way places.' Our own dairy farmers muster strong; there ore men from New Zealand, from Temora, from Ballarat, and from Port Darwin a medley mixture that the rush for gold has brought together. That there Willie many disappointed is only too true, but-we can safely say that the rush has been of, their own making. The strip of beach reaches from Walluga Lake to Bermagni, say 3i miles, and of this pcrhapi two miles ispayable, perhaps more. Tho claims along it will have to be tackled systematically to make work remunerative. The whole ot the aaud mußt be stripped from the face and tbe washdirt paddocked, and then comes the trouble-washing the gold out. At present there is not even the most primitive " cradle " on the ground. If a digger wants to wash a prospect, a9 we saw manywashed, he takes his pan to the sea and waits until the receding wave leaves o little quiet hole in the sand. He is, perhaps, half through, when his mate calls out " Look out, Jack," and Jack looks out, and hops out of the way of a breaker, leaving, perhaps, half his washdirt for the sea to make nlay of. Even in this way valuable prospects are obtained, and such prospects as justified Mr Keigbtley's telegrams ot, Saturday last, hut tho warden should have gone a littlo further and told people at a distance that all the ________ aiailflhlfi