ALLUVIAL AT SOUTHERN CROSS.
The alluvial diggers at Southern Cross are reported to be making a little.
A nice nugget weighing 36dwts. was picked up about a fortnight ago. This
was, however, surpassed at Parker's Range, last Monday week, and on that
day a nugget weighing five ounces was found.
RAIN MUCH-NEEDED AT SOUTHERN CROSS.
A private letter received in Perth, and dated Southern Cross, January
22nd, says that unless rain comes in ten days from that date, people would
be compelled to leave the fields. "The tanks at the 17-mile have given
out," says the writer, "and we are at present carting water from the
Strawberry rocks, 18 miles away; these narrow holes will last us a few
days. The next place will be the Cockatoo Rocks, 28 miles away, near
Parker's, and I don't know how we're going to cart water for the
population that distance, as the horses will consume most of it making the
journey there and back."
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