SALTWATER AND NEW RIVER DISTRICT.

Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 409, 27 August 1868, Page 2

SALTWATER AND NEW RIVER DISTRICT.

(prom our own correspondent,) RUTHERGLEN, Aug. 24 Very good news has to hand from the Eight-Mile Terrace this week. Another shaft about 50ft. deep has been bottomed on payable gold. The population continues to be daily increasing by fresh arrivals, and already every available man from the neighboring diggings has made his way to the Eight-Mile. The want of a good horse track from Welshman's to that place is severely felt, and a petition, signed by 282 miners residing there, praying the Road Board to make one immediately, was sent down on Friday last, unfortunately too late to be handed in to the Board before the completion of their business for that day. It would be very desirable that a polling booth should be erected at the Eight-Mile, when the forthcoming election for the new members of the Road Board takes place. It is a matter of considerable moment to the miners there, and affects them so materially that it ia to be hoped the Government will make it one of their polling places, as all the men in the dutrict are now located there, and it would be virtually disfranchising them if such were not the case. Weather permitting, I hope to be able to pay my promised visit to this now farfamed place during the present week, nothing doubting that I shall have to add rather than detract from the high character which it now bears. The Lagoon Lead, of whioh very favorable hopes were at one time entertained would eventually be traced to the south of the whifKclaim, cannot be said to be in

a flourishing state. It will be remembered how a large party of men had been engaged for some six months in bringing in a deep tailj?ace, for the purpose of draining the ground, as they anticipated that the lead took a sudden turn down, and that it would eventually pay them for theip trouble. They took up claims by the acre, went to great expense, as well as labor, and when they got fairly to work found their labor in vain: Well, did these enterprising men deserve a . better fate, and may they be eventually rewarded for their perseverance in trying to recover the lost lead. About eighteen men are still working there. A very serious accident happened this morning at the Black Sand Lead. It appears that whilst Mr. Bohen was riding one of his horses along the lead thehorse became restive, and Mr Bohen had : only time to get off, when the horse fell down a shaft belonging to the Sunburst Company, Every exertion was made to get the horse out, but unfortunately that could be done before the horse was dead. The value of it was Jg7Q.