NOTES FROM MAOEAES. (Fno.M Oim Own Cohrtopondknt.)

Glover and party have got their battery on the claim already, and Mr (i. W. Mouate, of Henthorn, is here to superintend tie work of placing the machine in position, ' This is the only claim in the neighbourhood of Deep Dell creek upon which anr' great amount of work has been done, o)6hough there are no less than eight or ten licensed noWings surveyed in the locality, and oue ot two of those holdings belong to some b»«*Un gentlemen. If the present owuera intend doing anything on the claim, it is high time they made a start. It is manifestly unfair to lock up the reefs in this manner, uud.if the owners have an idea that they are worth opening up, the sooner they look to their claims the better it will be for them, because miners aro fully aware of the fact that it is impossible to hold a claim without doing some work upon It, and goodness knows there has been very little work dotie on any of the claims in the neighbourhood of Deep Dell Creek. Uarcusand party, whodiscovereda reef some short time back south of Macraes township, are doing a

good deal of work in the way of prospecting on the line of reef. So far they have succeeded in discovering the reef in several places, and the prospects are very fair.
