NOTES FROM BIG BAY.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6627, 18 December 1886, Page 3

NOTES FROM BIG BAY.

[FROM OUB COBBBBPOmjHWTj BIG BAY, November 2. The prospects of Big Bay have not, I am sorry to say, improved since the date of my last letter, although a large amount of honest work has been done. Parties have been ont prospecting in all directions for weeks at a time—in some cases as far ai thirty miles from camp—with the general result that while here and there a few colors have been found, nothing in the least degree payable has yet been discovered,

A section of the Christohnroh party have just returned from the Otago side of the A warns, after spending three weeks in bringing np a tail race, with the object of bottoming the bed of Sandfly Creek, but not a single color did they find to reward their toil. The other day a small rush took place to a spot a few miles north ef Williamson's Point, on the strength of a report that good gold had been found there, but a couple of days sufficed to prove the place a rank duffer. Some of the miners have become discouraged, and are leaving the place in twos and threes for home. No fewer than thirty-four in all have left, going by way of Martin's Bay along the Hollyford river across Lake McKerrow, thence to Queenstown. Future prospecting will be all in a northerly direction. Everybody here seems agreed upon that point.