The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-09 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL; TUESDAY.
The screw steamship Great Britain has arrived,
with advices from Melbourne to the 29th January,
and 60,367 ounces in specie. Her news is three
days later than the last mail.
The Melbourne Argus of the 28th furnishes the
following mining news :
" There is still the same complaint of general dul-
ness on the diggings, and mining news is there-
fore scarce. New rushes are very muchwanted,
but they will not break out, although so many
are anxiously waiting to take part in them, on the
slightest possible excuse offering. The most pro-
mising opening just now for one is at the Antrim
Arms, between four and five miles from Talbot—
Back Creek, still the best known name, where work
has just been commenced afresh in a number of
claims, in consequence of its becoming known that
the gold has been found in another claim besides
that of the prospectors, and in more than merely
paying quantities. A party of Germans bottomed
some days since, and, for the purpose of inducing
others near them to abandon their claims, gave out
their own was no good, and commenced taking
down their windlass, as if about to leave it ;but when
they got as many of their friends as they could
around them they commenced work again, and
it is now believed that they got a prospect equal to
three ounces to the load. And on the Mount
Greenock Lead there has been a great improvement
within the last few days. In one claim that was
abandoned a fresh party of men came upon stuff
that yielded them four ounces to the load, after
driving a few feet, and in the Engine Claim a good
lead has been struck, after a long search for this in
vain. The gold on their part of the lead is also
coarser, for along with smaller pieces they found
a nugget weighing loz. 4dwt.; and on the
upper part of the lead yet another party has
come upon payable stuff, so that the Mount
Greenock lead, or leads, as the case appears to be, are
in high favour again. Towards the Talbot end of
the plain a prospecting party has struck upon go)A,
and some ground has been taken up round '-'itena,
but we have nothing as yet to show what tte nature
of the deposit may be. Most of the frontage claims
on the Rocky lead are still yielding well, and a
number of block claims have been taken up on a
fresh parallel, as from a discovery made in one of
the larger claims it is thought an important new
or branch lead may be opened up. Work has
been commenced in several of these, and there has
been somewhat of a rush to the side of the pre-
viously occupied ground. No new alluvial ground
has been found in the neighbourhood of Amherst,
and there is in places there an increasing scarcity
of water, calculated to drive away many of those
still on the old workings. At Dunn's Paddock the
lead is nearly worked out, and the nuggets found
are becoming less in weight and fewer in number
each week.

"The diggings around Dunolly are now yielding
well, and the last escort from that place was the
largest for some time. Much of the gold was
supposed to be from the old lead and from Coch-
ran's, but Burnt Creek contributed a due proportion,
as a number of the miners there, particularly the
Chinese, are doing remarkably well. The Bullock
Flat Lead is extending towards Dunolly, and some
of the claims on it are believed to be rich, for these
times. On the Wild Dog side of the creek a num-
ber of the miners are still at work, and, to all ap-
pearance, satisfied with what they are getting. A
new reef has been discoved on the Old Dry Lead
at Dunolly, the first five tons from which yielded
7oz. 3dwt. 10gr. At Cochran's many of the men
are engaged in raising cement, which pays them
well. Two or three weeks since there was a small
rush to shallow ground near Harper's Reef at
Havelock, and the gutter, or else a succession of
patches, has been followed up until the sinking is
now between 50 and 60 feet. The yield is, how-
ever, irregular, and not great from even the best
parts of these patches, so the rush is not likely to
assume any importance. There has also been a
rush of Chinese to the Blackman's Lead, and the
alluvial ground about Maryborough is said to be
receiving more attention, but no new discoveries in
that direction are announced.
" At Barkly good claims continue to be bottomed
on the deep lead each week, and otherwise there
is no change. The deep lead at Redbank is rising
in favour, and from some of the shafts last put
down the prospect was at the rate of a penny-
weight to the bucket. From other parts of this
district there is no news.

At Rokewood there has been a rush to a hill at
the back of one of the streets, where some 20 good
claims were bottomed early last week. A bucket
of dirt from one of these yielded 1 oz. 5 dwt. of gold,
so that it is needless to say the population on the
spot is fast increasing."
The English Eleven landed at Sydney on the 27th
of January, and were to commence their match on
the following day.
The Otago Times of the 17th of January records
the discovery of a new gold field on the Zammerland
Creek, near its junction with the Waipori.