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Dunstan Times, Issue 412, 11 March 1870, Page 2

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(i'UOM OUR OWN CORRESPOND NT. Queenstown. March 7, The reefs in this district, that is those which have been discovered in the neighborhood of the Shotover, promise soon to be resuscitated from their position of quiet and neglect. The new company formed to work the Nugget Ileef, on the Upper Shotover, have had their first crushing and thirty tons of stone lias resulted in a cake of seventy-two ounces. The gold was brought down on Friday last by Mr, Roskrugo, the Company's manager, an i deposited with Mr. Mulligan, one of the principal shareholders. It is said that they have thousands of tons of stone exposed that will go from half an ounce to an ounce to the ton, and also a goodly quantity that will yield from Uvo to four ounces. Skipper’s Reef is showing increased signs of life. The PhdCnix Company are driving hard to cut the new reef discovered ;ome few weeks since, and it is sai. the Otago Company is likely to go a-head again. In all directions attention is being drawn towards quartz-reefing, and a coir.iderablo development of this important branch o£ mining is certain. With few exceptions the crops are almos all gathered in, and, taken as a whole, the

■farmers have reason''to bo satisfied. With ■respect to prices, it is difficult to iriake an 'estimate. With wheat it is arbitrary, and depends mostly upon the caprice of mill-owner, who, of course, will not give more than he can possibly he’p ; but, with flour at £l6 and £lB per ton, wheat ought to be worth at least Os. per bushel. With other grain there is something approaching a market value, buyers being more numerous. Oats are fetching 3s. 9d. per bushel; potatoes, £6 to £8 per ton. Were it not for the excessive charges made at the Kawarau punts, I have no doubt but that many of niir farmers would seek to do business in the Dunstan district by sending down their own teams. Such would be of benefit to your district as well as to this, and prices would be more equalised. We have made great progress in agriculture, and increased market facilities are needed, not so much because prices might by chance ho higher, but that it would be more satisfactory to be enab'ed to do business in a more extended field Anent the punts, it is argued by many that the Government should be advised to purchase them. Such a proceeding wouln be simply ri ic xlous. Their first cost and expense of management afterwards would go a long way towards erecting bridges, even if it did not build them entirely. To bridge the Kawarau would not be a very expensive affair, and it is quite possible that a dray road could be ma ’e round the Gentle Annie for even less than that. The Crown Terrace contains some thousands of acres of rich agricultural land, which would not only pay for making the road, but leave a handsome profit to the country afterwards It is quite possible that private persons would undertake the job, and take payment in land. Messrs. Davis and Samson are proceeding rapidly with the arrangements for their brewery. The bull ing is already erected, and the brewery plant will all be on the ground in less than a fortnight. Both gentlemen are experienced brewers and maltsters, and we ought to be regaled with a first rate article in the shape of beer. The bridge at the Shotover is fast verging towards completion, the last of the piles will be driven this week, in less than a month it will be available for traffic. The present crossing place is in a most dangerous condition just now owing chiefly to the water being backed up by the Kawarau, w-hich causes a considerable deposit of silt to accumulate, the bridge j; self also assists this deposit; for loaded teams the crossing is positively unsafe. The remarks made by your Resident Magistrate in summing up, before giving judgment in a trespass case by goats entering a garden and destroying the trees and shrubs caused much amusement and satisfaction at the same time, and I am very happy to say that in similar cases, our respected R.M. appears to hold equally similar opinions, goats lately have botvymo an intolerable mustvneo in- -Queenetown. By the bye, I was presente I with an apple the other day from the garden of Mr. J. D. Feraud of Monte Christo, near Clyde, I must award him the palm for fruit growing. The return Cricket Match between the Queenstown and Arrowtown Clubs came off on Friday last, when the Queenstown Club were again victorious by eleven runs. The members of the Arrowtown Club entertained their opponents to a han 'some dinner in the Evening at Scole’s Royal Oak Hotel, where all enjoyed themselves to their heart’s content. A ball wound up the festivities of the evening.

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