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Dunstan Times, Issue 434, 12 August 1870, Page 2

Our newly - constructed Municipal Council promises increased exertions for the benefit of the town and district, and there is little reason to doubt that, if supported by the confidence of the public, the Mayor and Councillors will be enabled to secure for the Dunstan many advantages, the want of which we now deeply deplore. A just proportion of our share in the money for water supply which the passing of the Goldfields Bill gives ua

must not be lost sight of, and this it will be the duty of the Council to secure for the district. It is a matter in which everyone is interested, and, if we can only bring water to bear upon the auriferous terraces of the Dunstan Valley from such a prolific source as the Lindis, Clyde will become the most populous mining centre in the northern goldfields. Following the contour of the Dunstan Eanges from Chatto Creek to this is one continuous goldfield, unavailable only for the want of water to extract the gold. This can be readily supplied by a race from the Lindis, and, after the water has done duty here, it can again be made available for working the banks of the Molyueux. We have only now to keep a strict watch over our interests, and this long-wanted and much-needed water supply will be obtained. The next matters Vif importance are gaol buildings and sittings of the Supreme Court. That there should be some secure place for the safe custody of treasure while in charge of the police has been made painfully apparent, and what the pro vince has lost by the late gold robbery would have built a substantial gaol and provided proper accommodation for the police. For a Court house there need be no outlay. The Townhall is amply sufficient for all purposes, and, if and improvements are required, we have no-doubt but that the Council will gladly pro'-ide them. The loss to witnesses attending the Sessions in Dunedin is something enormous ; for, besides what they lose .personally, the country suffers by being deprived of so much productive power. The cause of justice demands that we should have a periodical silting of the Supreme Court at Clyde. Crimes go unpunished and wrongs are submitted to because of the delay and loss of time to prosecutors, who naturally accept the least of the iVo evils. The land question we have referred to elsewhere, but it is a matter in which our Municipal authorities can accomplish much, and in this they must make their influence felt. The prosperity of the town is coexistent with that of the district, and in watching over one we are like wise watching over the other. If we keep persistently making our wants known in the proper quarter, and as persistently keep asking that they may be satisfied, there is every chanee that they will be so. Modesty may be a virtue in private individuals, but with public bodies it partakes rather of the nature of a sin.