DRY BREAD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 433, 5 August 1870, Page 3

DRY BREAD.

(from a correspondent.) August 3. We are just about through one of the most successful winters ever was seen in this district, and most of the sluicing claims are either washing up or are preparing to do so, with; I am happ to say good prospects. At Tinkers, Holmes artd party have an immense paddock stripped, between ten and twelve acres ; if report speaks true, the yield will exceed anything before heard of in the District even in its palmiest days. Reid and party of New Town have also made an important discovery. After working their claim for the last four years, they are now working what they have hitherto considered bottom They have a face fifty feet deep, with good payable gold all through it. They lia've not yet reached the main reef, but from ground now in sight, 1 shoud think they have at least twenty years work before them. One of our large water-races has been in litigation for some months past, lu the first instance it was a disputed water right. The gist of the case is this : some four years ago, the Perseverance Water Race Company applied for an additional twelve heads of water, from the Lauder Creek, to their previous grant, and posted their notices in accordance with the mining regulations, which says: •“ Parties applying for water shall post, and maintain notices for fourteen clear days previous to getting a certificate.” Rut Clark and Company (now the Drybread Water Race Company) posted notices for eleven heads, in addition to their previous grant, three days after the Perseverance. Mr. Hickson (then Warden of the district) gave Clar - and Company a certificate for their eleven heads of water in seven days after their pasting notices, or a priority of right of four days. Some twelve months after, the case was brought before Mr. Warden Simpson, who refused to interfere with the pi evious decision, But the Perseverance, still nothing daunted, again brought the case before Mr. Warden Pyke. He has done a public justice by granting the Perseverance the prior right to the twelve heads. In the case of Dissolution of Partnership in the Perseverance Water Race Company, in which Messrs. Greenbank and Waters, to the prejudice of Messrs. Glassford, Magee, and Hincliffe, which case has been repeatedly before the Court, the Warden has adjourned it for six months. This decision thas been hailed with general satisfaction as far as Magee is concerned, as he is the pioneer of the Company, and also the race, which did no pay for the first two years after its construction, and as it is now paying well it would have been a case of unusual hardship to have ousted him at the ](resent time to satisfy the cravings of some eager speculators. Though we have a great deal of trouble to get our business settled, it is worth it all to get it settled by a man like Mr. Warden Pyke.