Show AUSTRAL tas TAx GOLD MINES for some time past last and since pikes peak has attracted so much attention in this his count country rys very little has been yeen icen published concerning the gold mines of australia but of late they are reported as being 0 very productive much more so ahan than heretofore As a specimen clinen of the reports that have reached this hh country we insect t the following lately received at san francisco by the sparkling sea GOLD rulies rones one of the latest has been een directed to a place called back creek greek which oa on a sudden from a few hundreds showed a lallon of 15 the last abst was the number the lelh buu but within aphin a single fortnight afterwards on march the tha population had mounted to if 11 the value of certain buted claims were to be taken as a a criterion e dle die gingi were rich aswell as populous the warden hi JA his hi report on the subject that hat the lowest average yield of any of the ground a dispute WU was OLO orle and aud a half balf ounces to the load while he had known instances of 0 the iha yield being an ounce to the bucketful and of as much as one hundred and thirty ounces being obtained fro from one load correspondence of the marys bo borough and dunolly denolly advertiser sa y ashot A at the end towards co cockatoo yielded seven ounces to the bucket one hundred and twenty five ounces were obtained from a load of washed dirt from a claim near the junction another anther 0 lower down returned thirty seven ounces t to 0 tha same quantity an immense number of claims show prospects that warrant the belief that they will turn out twelve and eighteen ounces to the load A prospecting shaft sunk at the point of a hill some two or three hundred yards ahead of the last hole bottomed on the lead has struck payable gold another the same distance distarce but much nearer the cleek has also proved remunerative munera tive should the ground lying between be the width of the he lead at this part would be fully two hundred yards in consequence of such success a number of shafts are going down with great spirit A hole bole was bottomed at the lower end and the prospect obtained was five dats to the toe bucket another close to this one ia Is likely to prove a very rich ilch claim nuggets from three to ten ounces were picked out of the wash dirt and the small gold is said to be very thick from its appearance appe aranie arante competent judges expect it to pay twenty four ounces to tha load in a shaft which was nearly bottomed gold could be seen very thickly strewed in the gravel at a depth of I 1 orty forty nine feet the sinking ra becomes deeper as the lead extends the golden claims are now fifty feet A few feet below the surface basalt rock is found hitherto this hard matter has been confined to one end of the lead but now it is met with at both the main lead runs at places at least five claims wide and is already a mile and a half in length nug nuggets ets are now becoming plentiful one store kee keeper per assured us he bad purchased twenty seven on one day varying in weight from three to seven ounces A very splendid specimen of gold was obtained from a claim near nearmon mon ro rolco co s store weighing twenty seven ounces A rugh rush ruths to eang Kang kangaroo atoo aioo a few miles distant from back creek waa was beginning to attract the attention of those not well placed in the monster rush some hundreds of men are there and fair prospects had been obtained from a few of the holes already down other rusher rushes had taken place at commissioners rs hill at mule teams etc A serious underground fight had taken place at ballarat ballaran Ball arat between two companies the nightingale and Mala maia malakoff kofl kofr who darted disputed as to the limits of their respective claims claim other difficulties of a similar kind were anticipated in the same quarter |