VICTORIA.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 623, 15 January 1870, Page 4

VICTORIA.

[l,EAni5K,] The WhroQ correspondent of the Jiciidigo Advertiser reports that tv rush has taken place in a gully near Mary Taylor's Greek, and about two miles . west of the Nine Mile diggings*.. A. hole was bottomed at ISft, and a prospeot obtained of 6grs from two dishes. Mr Henry Arohdall, the mining surveyor for the Kyneton district, in surveying the reef discovered at Kangaroo-hill by Marshall and party, found it to run in a direct iine from Frenchman's Reef one of the richest gold-bearing reefs in that district. A monster :*u<jget, weighing 671 b, the largest yet found at Berlin, was got by a Chinaman just outside John's paddock, and within the, paddock the following pieces were, got during the past few days : — 59<>z2dwt; 18oz, got by a Chinaman ; and los 2 dwt, in two pieces, got by another Chinaman. A Mr Button has been examining the gold fields of Tasmania, and summarily he thus expresses himself on them :— " From what I have seen of the gold-bearing districts of Tasmania, I have come to the conclusion that gold-producing will be for the future one of the permanent industries of this island, but I have seen nothing to justify the idea that gold will be found hi anything like such large quantities as it has been obtained either iv Victoria or New Zealand. However, so little has been done, towards opening up the reefs already discovered, that it is quite impossible to say how rich some of them may turn out/ An extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Lady Sutton Gold and Tin Mining Company, registered, Chiltern, was held at the Colonial Bank Hotel, Little Collins street, Melbourne, on Wednesday, the 22nd December, at which 4792 shares were represented ; Mr Dodgson in the chair, A resolution was unanimously passed, authorising and empowering the board of directors to borrow a sum or sums of money, not exceeding L2OOO in the aggregate, and to grant a mortgage on the claim, and bill of sale on the machinery, plant and property of the company, for the repayment of such sums so borrowed and interest. The prospects of the company have much improved, owing to the recent discoveries on the Canadian lead on the eastern boundary of the company's claim, which lead must run through the company's ground. Ballarat, despairing of its alluvial resources., hopes to find quartz away down in the very bowels of the earth. As a preliminary step, a public meeting was called at the Alfred Hall, on Friday evening. After some discussion it was resolved —"That the Mayors of Ballarat and Ballarat East be requested to call a public meeting at an early date in the large room of the Alfred Hall, for the purpose of discussing the desirability of testing quartz at a depth of not less than 1000 feet, and that a committee be then appointed to call for tenders of sites suitable for sinking on." In proposing this motion, Mr W. C. Smith propounded, as an unanswerable proposition, that "the back bone of Ballarat, where all their alluvial had come from, was the proper place to test, for surely the ground that, had. yielded the alluvial ground must have riches well worth exploring, at deeper depths." Mr Smith is a sanguine man, but it is very much to be feared that, he is too sanguine. It is notorious to any man of experience •in quartz mining, that gold bearing quartz has not yet been found near deep alluvial workings. Take Bendigo, for example. Rich in quartz nearly every where, shehas not the sign of it in proximity to her deeper sinkings at Epsom and Huntly. We hope the best for Ballarat, but feel inclined to bwlieve that for her future prosperity she must look to her allnvium. Or if not to that, let her forsake the gods of her yi u/,h and turn her attention, to manufacture — she "will find out by-and-bye, that a large population like hers may be utilised in more ways than one.