KIANDRA.
FROM OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER
No. 13.
January 7. -- The escort left on Saturday, with 492 ounces 14 dwts., and £1000. I have
so lately written you that I have little to say.
The accounts from Crackenback during the last few days are more favourable, many are
now working; the river will be found payable. On Saturday I had a conversation with an
experienced digger who returned to this place to settle with respect to a claim he had an
interest in here, and he states that the prospects that are being obtained is sufficient to
induce about 500 men to stop upon the place -- that he intended to return, having
obtained about 5 dwts. of gold out of one prospect in his claim, which he showed me; it
was shotty and water-worn; he also informed me that when he left he was told that in one
of the gulleys, a distance of about a mile from the river, payable gold had been obtained,
and a surface hill discovered; he would not vouch for this being the case, but gave me the
report as it was given to him by respectable parties on his leaving.
Mr. Commissioner Cooper leaves to-morrow for Crackenback, Mr. Commissioner Clarke
having returned to Kiandra.
I purpose leaving this place to-morrow for Lambing Plat, the accounts from which still
continue most favourable, and I trust soon to be enabled to send you full particulars. I
cannot leave this place without thanking all parties on these diggings -- the Government
officials in every department in particular -- for their universal urbanity of manners
towards me, and their willingness to give me any assistance with respect to any
information I may have required with respect to these gold-fields, and to them in
particular have I to thank for the authentic information I have, in many instances, been
enabled to forward you. To the miners also I have to return my sincere thanks for the
information (often, exclusive) they have supplied me with, and to their general conduct
towards me when I have had occasion to make any inquiry, and, in leaving Kiandra, wish
them all God speed.