LITTLE KYEBURN NOTES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 998, 26 February 1887, Page 3

LITTLE KYEBURN NOTES.

Somehow or other, things hive boen abnormally quiet here since the holidays, hence my continued silence. The only thing which somewlmt relieved the monotony'■'•Was th« visit of a pic-nic party—a pir ty of perhaps 40 of the elite of Niseby. The place.ao.ceted was the Ondauu-od tiorge, where, without boast, it may be saia " Hn.iry cliffs nro piled. Towering in grameur," etc. But tho chief attraction, and one well wortb seeing, was a migl.ty chasm worn in the rork to a depth of perlmpj 2()offc, and so narrow that two or three p.'rsoni Walking abreust could scarcely force their way through it. Unforriintttely, toD, the road to be traversed is anything hut a smooth one, and were a tr fling sum expended in making so no sort of a track we might yet hope tos.-e our out-of-the-way hnmlet become the resort of pic- nicers from ull quarters. Meantime, however, till something is done in thu direction, I would advise ladies who indulge in the luxury of high-heeled boots, and humanity in general whoso hoots are not of the right sort either, to stay at home ov to leurn to ti.ke a spell of walking on their hands. But, in either case, they wi'l lose something ; for if they -tay at home they will lose just as good a eight a* u lobe obtain*d anywhere in the district; while if they do come, prepared to scramble over, rocks and boulders in tho aforementioned 'fashion, they cannot fail to have a distorted and upside-downiah view of things in general. In mining matters, there is nothing encouraging to report. As may be guessed, water hug been at a premium for the last two monthß; and although the Christmas washings on the whole turned out ra'her bettor than was previously anticipated, yet there has been very little "of the precious metal oblaiued eiuce. Every advan'nge has, however, been taken of tho dry weather to effect the necessary repairs on head-iaces, etc., so that everything may be in readiness' uaainst the day when Jupiter Pluvius Bha 1 condescend to favor us. One w.iter-rnce has been extended on to the ground prospected by the oountv prospectors lust, year, but whether the ground is really payable or not remains to be proved. Ihear that, two other claims have been marked off in the same locality (White's Gully), but where the necessary supply of water is to come from is at present, a problem. This ground, it will be renumbered, was highly •spokenof by Mr Flynn, ooe of the prospectors, who stated that the ground was higUv auriferous and was about six miles' long by four miles broad. Candidly -.peaking, however, I think Mr Flynn might as well have said 20 miles by 12 and been as near the mark ; neither do 1 'believe the ground is so " highly aut iferous "as Mr Flynn stated. 1 hope; however, I may be wrong and Mr Flynn right.

I hoar nothing freih from Mount Burster. So far as I can learn, only Messrs John Thomas and parly succeeded'in washing-up be.ore Christmas, bufwith whut result I cannot ascertnin. Probably, Mr Grayson may also have finished washing-up, hut I do not know. I might mention that Messrs Brown and Flynn have waited patiently all the summer for a little water to wash-up with, but are still as far forward in that direo ion as they were four months ago. With.regard to what is being done at Kyeburn Diggings lam equally at sea. Water, of course, must be pretty slack," consequently work mUBi be considerably curtailed. The Salvationists paid a v'sit l-> Upper Kyeburn some time ago, with the view of reaping in a few converts ;. and while they were lustilv shouting :

" Mi - old companions, fare-you-well— I will not go with you to hell 1" or something to the'same effect, some of the chief larrikins took the wheels off their trap and planted them in the tussocks, thus necessitating a four-hours'" search wit h lanterns before they, were found again. Mr Richard Gale met with a rather serious accident very simply last week. It appears a face whs being run in front of the Pass Hotel, when in coming iu the horses collided—or, from some o : her cause, one of then, fell throwing the rider, H. Smith, who was unihurt, with considerable force". against Mr G da, with the re»ult ; that, in addition to a cut on the head, it was afi erwards ascertained several- of' his ribs had been, broken: It might be mentioned that, Mr ; Gale was quietly looking on, totally unconscious of danger. Part of Mr Mouk'a butchery was also smashed in.