THE LEIILE GREY.

Grey River Argus, Issue 68, 19 June 1866, Page 3

THE LEIILE GREY.

(from a correspondent.) : .June. l 6. By a copy of the M Axgus," which has lately reached me, I perceive that one of your correspondents, who professes to ..speak from personal inspection, of the newTaJshes up Moonlight's Greek and Red Jack's GWJy, describes them,, jn a way to induce a general belief in their proving to afford new" openings for the enterprise of the miner, and pronusing large" additions to the richness ofT;i^| district. This may ultimately be the case^-and J. am not in a position to deny any one of your, correspondent's stateftients ; but I tliink it is in the interest of the floating mining population, who"^ire always looking out for and eager to seize upon any chance of finding remunerative employment for their energies, to' lot them know that his opinion does not afeall coincide with that of the numerous diggers who have essayed both the reported gold fields, to judge by the large numbers of them "who are daily streaming back thence to this neighborhood, the acene of their ■ former operations, which they quitted a week or two in high hopes that a much more brilliant prospect awaited them below tlie Ahaura. The report of" every ono I have spokexi with, | and they are many, is to the same effect — that the gullies may eventually pay J th*eir prospectors veiy.good wages ;. but there, is nothing to tempt any one else to stop. :,;The difficulty of working the Caledonia is j (and must be without tha introduction of expensive machinery) to get rid of the water. This appears to be owing to the peculiar flatness and narrowness of the creek, and nothing has yet been obtained to warrant the belief that it would pay for the necessary appliances to obviate this inconvenience. I should -think that very little, if not quite all the miners, who were seduced away from the Little Grey by the rumored rushes have now returned to somewhere about their old quarter.3, and have either resumed work at their former claims or are looking about in search of something equally promising. They none of them profess to be very well satisfied with what they are doing here now, or extremely sanguine of the futm*e of the district ; but have come back because they don't know where else to go, ahd because they can be nearly certain, to use the diggings locu T s tion, of "knocking out tucker." I have been told that the new creeks would now be left to their normal solitude but for the arrival from below of those whom the . original report of their richness has only just began to act upon".' There is still a good deal of gold being got hereabout', but no new discoveries of any moment. . The only movement of any importance is the experiment now making by several of the storekeepers up the river, to get their goods brought to the Saddle and Inangahua Rivers, instead of by the main and Little Grey. Ido not yet know how far tins plan succeeds, but seeing that the boat freight on the /■Buller alone is £70 a ton, 1 believe a great deal of the traffic fcr this side the Saddle will continue to pass by the old route.