DRYBREAD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 413, 18 March 1870, Page 2

DRYBREAD.

(from our OWN CoRUKSI-r NI'E'T.) March 1 4. The prosperity cf the diggings under the tin list an Range is be-ouiog every day more established. and Matakanni is fast approaching to the position. ~f being one of the leading gold producing districts of j Otago, Under the head of Matakanni, f in- ! chide Tinkers, Dry I.re,ail, Devonshire, and the other gullies running from tin- Dnostai Range between Wel-lnnan’s roily and the Dunstan Gorge ; theexn t. anionnt. of gold ; ohtaine l it is impossih c •> arrive at, as ! under the present system, there Icing no lecal Lank, it go-s towards swilling the ' escorts of Blacks’, St. Bathans, Mt. Ida, and I do not doubt occasionally civile, now I do not represent this as a grievance by any means, as if the min.-; s will n-.it work together and • ispose of (heir gold in one j market, say Blacks, and then with the unI derstauding that their d strict was accredit- ; ed with the total amount it is their fault, | and they deserve to have tin ir light hid under a bushel, ■ 1 1 ■ ere are grievances under which the district is smarting, I ali hide first to the Postal Servie-, nomiuallv | weekly, hut practically only fortnightly, an the little attention we receive from the hands of the Government in any one nnrticular, for instance, onr wretched roads, (tr.n-ks) &c. the last and not least grievance is one, in which wo are not ah,no, ai the whole of the Northern Goldfields Suffer more or loss from :eglcct at the hauls of the powers that he, whilst every attention is bestowed on the seaboard, where the substance of the country is expended in docks and railways, but, as it, will avail nothing to take up your rime fu thee with complaints, I will pioeed to give you the last news. Mining affairs ;v.*.: urosaerons, which is fully borne out by the ifferent washings up. Several partus who have just rename ■ :rom the West Const paid ns a visit with ill*- intei.i.ioii of taking u-i* groiiod to o! k, but unf. i tunatciy, the want of water lias coinpclle them to leave *' am. If llii.-, great waul was suppi, •!, there would soon be a large addition to onr population, ami this coubl bo rem died by bringing in the Ma uneridia, 1 hj ve in burner ‘ettcis wiilleu to you on the same subject, but llie uuch risking it too expensive a one tor private parties to undertake. At New Town tin ae 10, king-will Wiih everybody. head and party are washing down with wry good ir- specie. Waters and party have sold th-ir race to Holmes amt parly for a goo round s-io;, This latter parly have just, washo -up with splendid returns—one hundred and fifty I on. c.s lor a small pad ock. Tlioy have startc again with very good prospects. Grey an party arc also doing well. In laet, on every hand their is evidence, f prosperity seldom seen on any digging—no one idle but recent arrivals from the Thames and he West Coast, and as I have said before this would not he the case if there was the requisite water for them to work with. A concert and ball was held in the School Room on Fri ay evening last in aid of the I funds of the Thomson’s District School, j under the direction of the Sf. Bai ban's | Amateur Troupe of Serenaders, which i was a great success. About one hundred ! an ! fifty attended, and the result was the i clearing off the debt that wag owing on | the building. Great praise is due to all j concerne in petting up the entertainment. I Mr. J. Mellor, of Drybrea I, supplie the refreshments, much to his own ci-edi, likej wise to the satisfaction of the visitors. ' The Rev. C. S. Ross preached here on Sunday last, and it is his mteijtion'so ty do every alternate Sunday for the futupe, 1 which will be a great boon to ua all here.