" I forget now when I wrote to you last. I have been up here for the last two months : there is a party of four, who intend standing out the winter, having built a slab house, and made every thing as. comfortable as possible. Had we not got thus settled, we should, like many others, have been off to Bendigo, about thirty miles from this, where gold seemed to be moi'e plentiful than has yet been found. The first month we were here we got 31bs. weight, but this has been laid out in our house and provisions for winter. Last month we got nothing to speak of: we had a hole in Mont gomery Hill 28 feet deep, in which we expected to get a few pounds, but have been disappoint ed : we gave it up yesterday, and have com menced two others. I intend to dig till the end of the year, and give it up, fortunate or not, and remain either at Sydney or Melbourne, probably the former. "We had some wet weather about four weeks ago, which drove many people to town : they ■were not able to stand the cold and damp in the tents, which are really uncomfortable in bad weather with no fire ; this caused us to build this hut. Many are gone to Bendigo, which is quite the rage : provisions, however, are very high there, flour being £20 per SOOlbs. bag, and every thing in the same rate, besides there is not a stock more than will last a fort night, so that when the wet sets in they will be starved out. We bought two bags of flour lately, for which we paid £10 per 2001bs : sugar is Bd., coffee 35., tea 2s. 6d., onions 9d., and potatoes 7d. A digger requires to live well, so that it takes a good deal of gold to get along at these prices. Some people are doing well, but I have not heard of any great fortunes lately : one hole last week in Spring Flat turned out £1 ,000. I expect by persevering we will stumble on it, for it is all chance : a man in Montgo mery Hill, not 12 yards from our hole, took out 7lbs. weight one day. The road to the diggings is now almost impassable, carriage being Is per lb. 