The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th 1867.

Dunstan Times, Issue 293, 6 December 1867, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th 1867.

Beneath the Bule of Men fntiufiy jfST, the PES is mightier than the sword.

The visit, of His Honor the Super-in-dent to Martin's and other bays, on the West Coast of Otago, must be looked upon as an evidence that the further development of the gold producing interests, is received with a considerable degree of importance by the Provincial Government. It is a well ascertained fact to all careful observers, that the already established Uoldnckls are not so prosperous as they were, nor is the population by any means increasing, and were it not for the Chinese our Escort returns would show a seijjous falling off, tliis. wo imagine is sufficiently well known to the Government, who, now late in the day, seek to remedy the evil, by encouraging settlement on the West-Coast. Gold has been found, we believe in remunerative quantities at Martin's Bay, and it is reported that a number of diggers are there do' ing very well; the same may be K.i i of Jackson's bay. Er. Hector report! of the former place, flir.t there exists

some thousands of acres of rich alluvial land, available ior occupation and cultivation ; taking this fact therefore into consideration, together with the presence of the precious metal in remunerative quantities, the expedition should result in great and substantial good to the Province. With a population settled at the Bays on the West Coast, we shou Id not be long before we possessed communication overland, via Lakes Wakatip and Wanaka, as from the heads of those Lakes, the coast can be reach, ed by some three days travel, and we are sure that were a little money expended in making a track, that, thsdmtime could be considerably when the result would be a great impetus to the trade of this district, let alone the large increase of population that must inevitably take place, by people returning from the gold-fields of Westland, who, are now there in numbers ready and wilting to come baektoOtago.but lacking the necessary wherewithal to do so. A miner however reduced in circumstances, may manage somehow or another to make a land journey of a few days, when the expenses attendant upon a vova"e by sea would be perfectly out of the question ; we may therefore augur considerable and substantial advantages tot lie Province, as the result of the West Coast expedition ; although \n at the same time hope that, when his Honor does return, he will set him- ' self to remedy many present existing evils, which act very prejudicial to the increase of population nearer home, the subject of which, we must reserve for a future article.