ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 521, 12 April 1872, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

tai;' : -,.;h -°- (FROM fUIU CORRESPONDENT.) The best item of news I have for you this week is, the Butcher's Gully reef Prospectors are satisfactorily in opening up the claim. About twenty live tons of stone are at grass awaiting the corapViou of-Arrau Foments which are rending for the emahitig same at, the Conroy's Battery; and the party in the meanwhile are busily engaged raising more stone from the reef, which is fully three feet thick at a depth of seventy feet from the surface. The men eugagpd,'e\nress'tbem=elvpemnst,cnnnd"ntlv and nro?iv)st,icate a yold»n future for the reef, however, ! as-the Vst test v.dl' Re the Conner p’ate after the stone Ins passed thrnmh the process of dismteimtiou 1 will not prophecy, hut await patiently the result. The Go’ifoy’s T?o e f in 'tidying narhanco is hung np, them is a s'rt o F undercurrent adoat tending to make ano her 3 L a"t, hut )f s nothing definite has as yst oozed out e- erv thi’.’g is left to coii’octure. Some slight stir was caused on Mon lay last by Mr. Chappie. who submitted to

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