ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 260, 19 April 1867, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

■ ed:;esday, lGcb April 1867-. '■ he long continued dry weather is tc'ling conaiJ<;i'ably against the mining interests, and numbers of men arc idle, "who at this season of year should bo actively and unremittingly employed ;it is sincerely to'fcc: deriscd that Svo 'should get a fall rain or .snow rotra so as to replo ish tho races; i tho opw/i! g of this i;old(icld, like such a. dry seaso i been experienced. At Fieuehnir.n's I'oint, Paddockirjgopeta tions are commenced in earnest, andshoidd the season prove a favorable one. more grid ■will bo produced from thin highly anrifei'ous spot than hat> ever previously been taken ou!. iVor.l a similar spaco of ground in New Zealand. Tho I nterpriso '< ompany are already o" .(ho dottom, a d getting up wash-dirt, their i.ext paddock will put them on to the lest of the run. The " Hit or Hiss" are laying down a tram, way intending to remove the stuff from their paddock by means of -trucks to 1 ,-e drawn by horse power. The Fr.-nehrr.an's n.opaiy a■ • bully Csgljpl sinking

paddock, and expect to bottom ia the course of aortnight. At Butcher's, Doctor's, Twelve and Fourteen mile Beaches, the population : is daily increasing* and many claims'arc now afc-work, that have not been so on account of the flooded state of the Molyneux during the last two years past. The dredging macliines continue to do exceedingly well, in fact, this is the : most profitable, and certainly remunerative branch of mining known. On Monday last, the nomination of candidates for tho House of Representatives for the'representation of Manuhevi kia rook place at the Court house, before the Returning Officer, 11. W. Robinson 'JSsq.; about thirty persons were present, but out of that number there were not above half d6zetf electors. Me John Jack and Mr Ravid Mervyn were the only two candidates proposed, much to -the disappointment of those assembled, ta it was thought that at least there wero some seven or eight " Richtnonds "in the field. The show of hands was almost unanimous for Mr John Jack, arisiug perhaps from the fact that Mr Mervyn was but little known. Mr Jack made a brief address in which he thanked the electors for tho confidence reposed in him, promised to address them not only at Alexandra, but in nil other places in the Mamiherikia district previous to the day of election. Mr Mervyn afterwards came forward and delivered a most pleasing address to the effect, that he did not come forward to satisfy any motives of personal ambition, but to pi'ocure redress to grievances suffered by business and other residents in the Mount Bengcr Eistsict; in respect to the depasturing of cattle, showing with con- ; slderable acumen that the greed of the squatters in his district was such, that no intending settler could cither get land, or run any cattle whatsoever, Mr Mervyn concluded amidst considerable applause, remarking that should Mr Jade's and his own opinions quite coincide he would re- ' sign in his favor.