MOUNT BENGER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 477, 9 June 1871, Page 3

MOUNT BENGER.

(fiiom OUR CORRESPONDS XT.) There are upa and downs in the lines of all men, hut I think a Molyneux digger gets more of this saltatory motion than is fairly due. Last week we had an “ up ” which knocked off most of the beach claims, now we are goiilg down, down, down; and I only hope we shall continue to do so until all the gold of our antipodean Pactolus is completely extracted. Such is a summary of the mining news of the week, and I expect will only have to be repeated with variations in your paper for the next dozen years, that is, if New Zealand keeps above wa'er fpr so long a time. Of other nows there is the usual dearth.

Last Friday we had a Presbyterian Cookoysliiue, but sucli affairs are not in my line so you need not expect a report of the profound utterances of the Re v. Messrs. Thingamy and Whatshisname in my elegant scribble.«

A ghost ft the sensation of the week. Of course your readers|know all about Yorky’s murder. Sfcma of them may also know that the hotly is interred at the junction (if two tracks. Well, tbs other night two gentlemen of the Hibernian persuasion hj ippenel to encounter just at ihis. spot. No. I naturally took No, 2 for Yorkey’s appanti n, and vtcc vci'rffj —*- JI o’ y Virgin ’' says No. 1. “ Angels and ministers of grace defend us t ays No. 2. “ Begone to the Rid Say ” says No. 1, “ Begone yourself ” says No. 2. Both advanced a stej). Both retreated, and finally, botii turned tail and lied in different directions. I Understand Bishop Moran is shortly expeo ein order to exorcise the spirit. So the mining conference is over, and Smiler has got a few to row to his stroke. Heaven help the miners of Otago; if the conference truly represents their ideas of political economy, the sooner all hands are shipped to Yarra Bend the better for the futurelpf iha country.