Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas. : 1835 - 1880), Wednesday 11 November 1863, page 3


QUEENSLAND.

[From the BallaaratStar.]

Tliitse items of Queensland news »re not the less interesting lor coming through the Ba.llaa.rat Siar. ' — ' A gentleman who has recently returned from Queensland informs us that Mr. Bushel, of the Western

District, has lately purchased ol Mr, 13. M. Culling his ran in the younger colony, and one of the most . extensive there. The Peak Downs gold-fields, Queensland, is described by the same informant us being undoubtedly prosperous. About two thousasdounces of gold were in the, bands of storekeepers, -and about 300 ! men were at work, many of them ?new chums, who could not handle the tin dish with any degree of skill.

The diggings are desoribed as being «bmit 800 writes west of Rockfcampton, which town is said to be almost deserted. Numbers of drays ; and waggons were on the road en : route for the New Eldorada. The storekeepers at Peak Downs were selling spirits at £2 per bottle, and ?flour, wbioh wqs in short supply, had beea selling at Is. 9d. per lib, one storekeeper intending to hold for an advance to 2s «d per tb- Our informant has brought with him a

sample of what bethinks is rich copper ore, intending to have it assayed, and if the result is favonraWe to apply to tne Queensland Crovern-ment for a lease of a block of land in the locality where it was discovered.'