The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-09 00:00:00

of their improvements added to the upset
price. The Resident Warden addressed the town
council, requesting their opinoin on the advisability of
arresting this irregularity. Before receiving their answer,
he was induced, at the instance of an aggrieved landed pro-
prietor, to order the removal of:a newly completed weather-
board building belonging to an employe of one of our largest
business firms. A petition was got up and presented to the
council, den mneing this as arbitrary, and the whole move-
ment as cilculated to prejudice the town, by causing the
removal of a considerable portion of its supporters. The
towa council unanimously pissed a vote of censure on the
warden, and memorialised government to permit all present
occupants to remain till the land is otherwise required, and
at the same time to prohibit any farther erections. The
result is yet unascertained.

From Mount Blackwood we have the following :
—" An auriferous country has been discovered
within this last few weeks, by a party of diggers,
who were prospecting, having promiscuously
dropped across a single party, to their great surprise,
who have been at work for some considerable time,
judging from the comfortable manner in which they
were housed, &c. The situation of the diggings
is between Gisborne and the Blackwood Mount,
in nearly a direct line. The gully runs into
an at present unnamed creek, which empties
itself into the Larderderg ; distant across
country 15 or 16 miles from Gisborne, being about
half way between the latter place and the Mount..
Depth of sinking is from four to sixteen feet ; the
gold is very coarse; bottom soft slate and sand-
stone. The precious metal lies embedded about
eight inches in the sandstone A party of two men
obtained one ounce and a half on Friday, and a
party of three four ounces in three days. Tents
are now going up in all directions. Your informant
has visited the locality, and has no doubt that it will
prove very rich. lam just informed a nugget of 17
d wts has been obtained, with other coarse gold, from
a tub of stuff Blackiwood is completely deserted,
actual diggers not numbering more than 50. For the
information of your readers it may be stated that
the situation of the new diggings is approachable
on the Gisborne side only, the very mountainous
character of the Blackwood Mount side renders
them perfectly inaccessible from hence. The only
way for drays would be the Mount Alexander road.
until within a short distance of Gisborne, then to
bear in a direct line for the Blackwood Mount for
a distance of from fourteen to sixteen miles. The
fact of the increase in the Escort from 25 ozs. to
362 ozs. within two or three weeks, which astonished
every one here, is now accounted for."
.

We observe it noticed that the evasions likely to
be resorted to by the penniless gentlemen returned
as members to the House of Assembly was exciting
considerable attention. That many qualifications
will be collusively and eolourabty obtained there
can be no doubt, notwithstanding the act to the
contrary. The misfortune in this case is that any
attempts to expose the nefarious system resorted
to by unprincipled men will prove nugatory,
from the complicity and sympathy the objec
tionable practice meets with by the majority
of the returned members. To evade the act
seems with many a most righteous transaction, and
only tending to expose the absurdity of the qualifi-
cation clause, and the advisability of securing its
repeal. It is the simplest thing in the world to
procure a friend so exceedingly good natured as to
rent a pig stye of a member for, say £4 per week,
and the qualification is complete. Such is not a
mere idea; it was an arrangement of which there
were several cases on record cognisant.
The Bendigo Advertiser thus notices the discovery
of a new gold field :

Within the last two or three weeks some new diggings
have been opened in the vicinity of the Bendigo district,
which from the promising results that have been obtained,
bid fair to develope into a gold field of importance. It has
long been known that the country beyond the Sheep-
wash Creek, at the upper portions of the Axe and Emu,
presents the usual indications of being auriferons. These
indications are continued for many miles into what are
called the Cockatoo Ranges. Prospecting parties have run
over portions of this district, sunk a hole or two here and
there, and found gold, but in those early days of extravagant
expectations did not prosecute their mining experiments,
on the ground that the prospects obtained would not pay.
What would not pay, however, in those days, when claims
yielding ounces to the tub were forsaken in search of those
yielding pounds weight, might pay very well now
when two or three pennyweights to the tub are found to
afford excellent wages, and ground yielding it would be
gladly taken up by thousands of miners throughout the
r • 1... .r icon, lucre IS a very
extensive field lying open tor mining enterprise in this direc•
tiou, and we should be glad to see the attention of the dig-
gers attracted to it. We do not hold out any brilliant
expectations, but merely set forth the plain grounds on
which the most ordinary comprehension would feel warranted
in anticipating that some good ground would be discovered
among the quartz and slate ranees which have so frequently
excited the interest and the expectation of digger and
traveller. Auriferous ground, like that at Dunolly, lies
unnoticed for years by thousands who have traversed the very
spot, and why may not the same thing happen with regard
to the couniry—in the direction we allude to ?