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Dunstan Times, Issue 363, 9 April 1869, Page 2

Tlio Escort on .Monday last took clown the following quantities of

At a special meeting of the Clyde Town Council held on Wednesday last to take into consideration the laying of the foundation stone of the new Town Kail it was resolved, —That the Provincial Grand Master, Vincent Pykc, Esq. and the Bnnstan Lodge of Freemasons he applied to, to lay the foundation stone with Masonic honors We have been given to understand that the request has been complied with, and that.the ceremony will take place on Friday the 16th inst., as the opportunities of wit’ cssing the like proceedings occur but rarely, we would advise our country cousins to make a holiday on the Decision; we have also been given to understand the Foresters have been invited to attend. At a meeting of tbo Alexandra "resbyterian Church Congregation held on the '29 th ult. the following gentlemen were elected as the Committee of management for the ensuing year, viz.—Messrs Finlay, Theyers, Field, [dateline, Reid, Bores ford, Gaidar, Beattie, J). Robertson, I). M‘ Donald, R- M Stewart, Milne, Gordon and H. Watson. The following is an abstract of the receipts and expeenditnro for the last eighteen months. Amounts of Church door collections, 128?. 15s 9d ; incidental expenses paid out of the same, 128?. Gs 9J ; amount raised for Minister’s stipend Fund, up to 31st Dec. 1869, 166?. 175. ; Salary paid out of the same, 162?. Is 10 proceeds of the last Soiree, after clearing expenses, 9/. 15.; paid in full the architects and the contractors accounts for Manse the amount of 258?. 9s 3d ; this sum was raised by proceeds of Soiree, subscriptions, and a loan from the Bank of Xexv Zealand. The sum due to the Bank, including interest, is 128?. 2s sd, of this sum 100?. will be met by the allowance to be received from the Synod Trust Fund, and the rest by subscriptions yet to be taken up.

We arc requested by Mr. George Facbo to draw particular attention to the Sale by Auction on Wednesday and Thursday next of Saddlery of every description, household furni turo, and freehold house and land at his Auction Ilooms, Clyde, and to add that the sale is unreserved, Mr. Chadwick, the owner being determined to leave the Colony for England. Our advertising columns notify the return of Mr. W M. Hodgkins for the f>r. ;t c: vtiod o f ! he Diocese of Hun c-b , = • . : eii.-iti*of the Dunstan District ; we have to state that through some error, the notice was net inserted in our last week’s issue, as it should have been.

A Congregational meeting of tlie members of lire Presbyterian Church, Clyde, was held at the Church of Eng land on Thursday the 25th ult, for the purpose of electing a new Com-

mittoe of management. Tlie mooting having been duly Constituted by devotional exorcises. The Treasurer’s and Secretary's report were read and adopted. There being no nominations for members of a new Committee of management, Mr. Thompson proposed and Mr George seconded that the gentlemen at present holding office continue to do so for the ensuing year, which was carried.

We are given to understand that Mr. Gilbert, the Seaman’s Missionary • will preach at the Church, Clyde on Sunday evening next. An adjourned meeting of the Hospital Committee to receive report of the sub-committee appointed to enquire into the excessive consumption of several articles during the past month and other matters will be held at the Council Chambers on Monday evening next, at 8 p.m. With regard to the Gold discoveries made in Sutherlandshire, the following is an extract from the report of the Times special Correspondent,— “ It is pretty evident that gold finding at the new diggings is anything but a paying speculation conducted as it is at present; but all the old hands—the professional diggers, if I may so term them—hgve the best opinion of the prospects. Some eight or ton of that c'ass have been there, and they believe that the hills in the course of the barn arc highly auriferous. One digger, who has had much experience, in i ustralia and New Zealand, says that the place very* much resembles Hamilton’s station in the latter colony, aking the Kiklonian hills for the Hogburn, and the burn for the river Taieri. This gentleman and his party have left the Sutherland diggings, to which they had come from a considerable distance After a trial of several days, they are convinced that there is nothing to be made of merely- gathering up the surface deposits; but ] they sav they would he prepared to \ make experiments on a large scale if \ \ they could get some of the hill land for themselves At present the move-1 monts ot experienced diggers are watched by the peasant gold seekers, and directly one of the former lias dug up a basin full of alluvial deposit and carried it to the stream, a dozen or more of the country- rush to that particular digging, believing it to be the I right spot. The Ausatralin diggers : don’t like tills. They say there is no I use in their making experiments for | others’ use ; and those of them who have gone away intend to suspend operations till some rules and regulations shall have been made. It is admitted on all hands that the gold is of excellent quality In color it is like : the Australian gold, and it works up j admirably. It is very clean when merely washed from the sa d. The foreign particles which remain are, the Australian men say, “ emery” and these are easily drawn out of the gold dust by means of a magnet.”

gold Queenstown 772oz Kldwt. Arrow town 832oz. 4dwt. Clydn 354oz. Odwt. Cromwell doioz. Odwt. Alexandra 224oz. Odwt. Tcviot 25Soz. ! Odwt. Blacks 302oz. Odwt. Dunstan Crec •k G29oz. Odwt. Mount Ida S30oz. Odwt. Total 4,75(5oz. 1 Odwt.