ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 502, 1 December 1871, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

o—{from our correspondent.) To use a stereotyped phrase or expression, my budget of news this week must necessarily be small, as there positively has been nothing stirring to bo worthy of'notico. The most notable occurrence of the week perbaps, was the usual quarterly land sale, when Mr. Chappie officiated as knight of tho hammer, to anything but either a numerous or appreciative company, he not being able, aided by the full sweep of his eloquence, to dispose of a single section. At Roxburgh, on the day previous he was more fortunate, as he found purchasers for every lot on his catalogue. Conroy’s Quartz Reef is being worked steadily and systematically by the shareholders ; and under the superintendence (fct* Mr. Reid is answering every expectation? the yield from the stone being good, and the quantity of stone in tho face of Jfejmain tunnel and drives still keeping up.^' The Butcher's Gully reef is still undeveloped, the water not being pumped out. Tho pumping [machinery is working ’very smoothly, but appears to have a greater body of water to deal'with than was thong hj for, a trial crushing of stone' is anxiously looked for by all in the district, as if the yield is equal to the first ’crushing of tho cap of the reef, (an ounce and a quarter to tho ton), an impetus will he given to trade, and an'cxtensivo field'of labor opened. Among ;tlio alluvial miners there is nothing stirring, no fresh finds being re - ported, the old established [parties on the Molyneux,?aud in the out gullies, are working steadily and perseveringly, doubtless bent on fillingjthcir purses for the Christmas holidays. The Ovens party have not bottomed in their new workings on tha Mamiherikia, they were flooded out during the past week through a rise in the Molyneux, this difficulty has however been overcome, and everything is again,.in motion, endeavoring to reach the gold. A few parties have lately located themselves on the Manorbmn, but 1 have not lieaul as to what they are doing ; this [place has ever been considered a good field for a limit ed number of miners, and I do’ not doubt shortly hearing of some good finds. Tho ground is not deep j[ aud there is plenty of water.