Our Bannockburn correspondent writes that after a stoppage of several weeks on account of the water races being frozen up -Jjhe miners there have all made a start again, and are trying to make up for lost time. Coal mining seems to be the best paying spec us the dredges use a constant supply. Anyone who drives but occasionally along the Clyde-Alexandra road cannot fail °to notice the great change in the course of the Molyneux caused by dredg ing operations below Muttontown Gully. At present the river there runs in two channels impinging against the eastern and western banks respectively, with an island of tailings between the channels. The ground once occupied by the main road is now river bed.
