ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 471, 28 April 1871, Page 3

ALEXANDRA.

(FROM OUH COnKESfONDEXT.) I intended to moralise about the folly of attempting to write a correpondent's letter without having news to chronicle; but in consideration of having been let off last week, I will spare your readers that infliction, and am ready to receive Uieir thanks, collectively and individually, therefor. I hear that a lease of sixteen acres has been applied for in Conroy's Gully, on the line of a new reef. Particulars I could not obtain, but I will endeavor to do so in time for your next issue. . The fine weather we are enjoying, although it impedes tlie operations of sluicers, will, I hope, continue for some time, to allow the parties trying for the main bottom a fair chance of accomplishing their object Rett and party, Slaven and party, and Simmons and KnowJes are hard work trying to do this If they succeed, and strike payable gold, the district will derive is incalculable benefit, as many others will follow their example. There is some talk about the mining conference, but as yet, althouah several names have been mentioned, no one has come forward as a candidate to represent our district as delegate. The visit of the ranger to collect the asssessment has awakened us again to the fact of the ridiculously insufficient commonage allowed us It is a pity someone dues not take this matter in hand, as with united action, I am sure we would obtain a proper area of land for a common. The Wat«r Committee seem in a state of catalepsy. That they will wake up soon is devoutly to be wished, for as if the matter is allowed to slip, should the General Government sue ceed in obtaining any money, we wil. find ourselves in the disagreeable condition of " out in the cold". It is to be hoped that your committee will not go to sleep, aud that they will act with ours for the general benefit of the Dunstan district.