The Dunstan Times FRIDAY, 4th Oct. 1867.

Dunstan Times, Issue 284, 4 October 1867, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

FRIDAY, 4th Oct. 1867.

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It must be extremely gratifying to our readers to find that tlio subject of providing funds for the Dunstan District Hospital has been so spiritedly taken up in the surrounding districts. At the Kawarau Gorge there is to be a ball in aid Df the funds, at Alexandra an amateur concert, and in the course of a few weeks Clyde will come forward with .something aovel in the shape of an art union. The infortunate difficulty between the two Governments acted very prejudiciously :o almost every public institution on the pldfielcls, and whether it be a hospital, a nunicipality, or a school, Ave find universal :omplaints of an enrpty treasury. Law. •enco and Queenstown are in a far worse >osition than ourselves; but, at the same inie, that is no reason why we should reax our exertions, and it therefore behoves is to put our shoulders to the wheel and ender the burthen of existing difficulties s light as possible. The value to the

| mining community of a hospital cannot he j too highly estimated, and as the operations i . of the gold-seeker extend the danger to life and limb appears proportionately on the increase, which fact is unfortunately amply verified by the large number of patients now in the institution suffering from fracture. To secure such a boon as the best skilled medical attendance to that portion of the community whom dire misfortune may render unwilling objects of charity is worthy the unanimous effort > on the part of a j)eople situate like ourselves, where each has to take his place and work out his allotted task in the industrial hive. Leaving alone mining, most other occu- .: pations on the goldfields are attended with | a considerable amount of personal risk, j The traveller who sets out in the morning . | cannot make certain of safely finishing his | journey by the evening, and with so many i naturaljdifiiculties as we find obstructing all out-door employments, a hospital becomes an indispensable necessary to our existence. We are sure that the miner, when ap. pealed to, will not hesitate to come forward | and contribute his mite towards the support of a charitable institution whose benefits arc so wide-spread, and the efficiency of which it is so necessary to secure.