MOUNT BENGER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 480, 30 June 1871, Page 2

MOUNT BENGER.

(PIIOM OUU CORRESPONDENT.) We have ha 1 the most intense frost experienced in this district for many years, and, as a consequence, the river is at a very low level. Indeed we are having too much of a good thing, as some of the claims have been very nearly stopped' by the wheels getting frozen Another, week or ten days of this weather, and any industrious man will stand a fair chance of a good " rise” wi-h tho cradle, or even with the tin dish. A large and influential meeting was held at the Welshman's Beach, in reference to the land question. 1 understand that you are to be furnished with a report, so I shall content myself by remarking that a resolution was passed vindicating the right of the miners to a first chance for any land thrown open within, the goldfields, I believe the working out of this idea will furnish a key to the great land problem. No run-holder ever I conversed with objected to hona fidt miners cultivating a piece of land for the benefit of their families, or wish to offer obstacles to their runnng a reasonable number of cattle and horses. ■ My opinion is that the two classes only require to know one another ho act harmoniously, and to combine against the common entmy, the “Cockatoo,” pure, e.t simple. ■ A dastardly piece of mischief was perpetrated the other night, about six chains of Mr. M'Cartley’s fence, at the Dumbarton Rock, having been deliberately destroyed, Were the perpetrator caught in the act of repeating his performance, I should recommend a good dose of lead, saltpetre, and snlpher, administered secundum arlcnu The ghost I mentioned in a previous letter continues to trouble Israel. He or it the gender of a ghost being a subject I am not posted up in—was last seen circling round the grave-yard by a lady. Strange to say, two very fierce dogs, which usually stuck up anything bearing the semidance of a human being, appeared completely cowed, arid beat a batty retreat/ Tapanni. I hoar,

has also been disturbed by a spiritual visitant, so that altogether it would seem as though we were on the eve of something portentous. 1

Influenza is very prevalent judt now. Prom the amount of harking heard on all sides,andjthe immense consumption of P. 8., one would think the proper name of the disease was hydrophobia.