DRYBREAD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 411, 4 March 1870, Page 2

DRYBREAD.

(from oup. own correspondent.)

March Ist,

The copious showers of rain that have lately visited this portion of the district have had a most beneficial effect, inasmuch as the supply of water for sluicing purposes that was beginning to run short, is now plentiful. The whole of the races are now running full, and I do hot think for the remain ’er of the season, there will he any complaint on the score of scarcity.

During the past wak,’While, M'Farren and party have washed up after a live months’ running with most satisfactory results, the exact amount of gold obtained, I am not in a, position to say, hut for a certainty I know the shareholders wore well satisfied. This party are working in shallow ground from five to seven fec-t deep, and have sluiced away during this time about one acre and a ha’f of ground. Green-

bank and party are washing up, as are also Bolton and party, ami to all appearances the remlt'will bo good. Branch and party are still working away on the hill, but as they have not washed down lately, I cannot say what thov are doing. A large space of ground has boon put under cultivation this past year i i this immediate neighborhood, and from the fact of nearly the whole of our miniature farmers in eking arrangements to extend their areas, I c include their most sanguine expectations ha ve been realized, as a proof of the fertility of the soil, one acre paddock of oats realized LI 7 sterling. We had a visit from Bird’s travelling circus, hut as rude Boreas vas also a visitor at the time, the Company declined to erect their standard, and made tracks for the lucre genial clime and superior attractions of the Dunstau to the supreme disappointment of the little ones. A melancholy accident it is my painful duty to inform you, occurred here on Monday evening last, a child, two years of age was accidentally drowned in a small water-hole that is used for domestic purposes, and which is situated within a few foot of the house of its parents. The father, Mr. Greenback, was the first to discover it, and though only in the water a few moments, every means to restore an.mation was of no avail. Dr. Niven who arrived shortly afterwards, pronounced life quite extinct.