KAWARAU DREDGING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 517, 15 March 1872, Page 3

KAWARAU DREDGING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNSTAN'TIMES. Sir, Would you be so kind as to allow me to contradict a wrong statement, or rather a number of statements that appeared in your paper about a fortnight since ; I would have done so before, hut not being a subscriber, I did not see it before to-day, hence the delay in the contradiction of it. What I refer to appeared in your'Kawarau Mining Memoranda, (by a miner.) He starts by saying that'dredging on the Kawarau, so far, has not proved a paying speculation, that is true, but not from the reason he lays down, but simply because it has never been tried. He next says that the dredge above the natural bridge has failed to strikeanything, although a great extent of ground has beongone over. He, the miner, must know nothing at all about dredging, or he must have some other motive in view, besides furnishing your paper with news, or he never could have had the audacity to assert that a great extent of ground had been gone over, and that it had become a “complete duffer.” When your .correspondent wrote the above, we had only wrought three hours and that was to get the machinery into working order, the river at the time being almost at a flood height, and no man knowiiig'auytbiug at all about dredging would ever think of looking for gold then.

Allow me also to iuform'the miner that there is no such a person as Henderson in the party, who built the dredge alluded to. It was built by Gemmell Bros, and party, and instead ei prospecting every available spot before all hope is given up I can assure your correspondent that there is not one of the party but what is sanguine of success, far less giving up all hope, I would advise your correspondent to be a little more cautious in the way he handles things he knows nothing about, especially a new undertaking' like the present. I should be happy to supply him] with any correct information if he only puts himself to the trouble to ask, instead of giving publicity to Bar Yarns. By inserting the above in the columns of your valuable paper you will much oblige,