ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 539, 16 August 1872, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

(from a correspondent.) . My batch of news must necessarily fo|p ciicurascribed this week, as the weather which has been of the roughest character H ever experienced in tbis neighborhood haj considerably impeded all mining. In fact, nothing has been done in tne locality fo sum j time. The workings in the ranges ami hack gullies have been frost and sno» bound, while the river workings have been water logged, both the Molyneux sad ManuherikU keeping at too high a leve|’ to allow of any hing being done. The minery however, despite the many difficulties tbqf beset them, are sanguine of yet being repaid for loss of time, and cling with limpit like tenacity to their claims, as if the preeiom metal they so much covet was in sight, auj' only awaited the dispelling of the fr stg, or the lowering of the waters to enable them to clutch it. For their great faith and p;rserverance they richly merit tow be rewarded, and if good wishes avail them aught, I freely give them. Of the clainu that great thing are expected, I may without disparaing any others mention Rett, || and Co., at the half mile beach, Hit or miss on Frenchman’s Point, and the Ovens Coy on the Manuherika, the two first companies chums arc too well known to require comment but I may hero say either party e.xpect to getto work shortly, but anticipai e a farther hinderance from the want of hard,® as there are none disengaged in the locality. In saying this I would not wish'to mislead » I am credib’y informed ihatif a dozen good| men were ab mt. they wo ild bo instantly I engaged. The Ovens Company have I shifted again their wheel to the orjpo.| site side of the river to which they? were working, and are nearly ready' fori another attempt to seek the long lost gut- I ter. To divert the strain of the Manulie- | rikia, they are engaged, and have been for the past four weeks in throwing in a mas- 4 sive stone lire ikwater, the which they expect to complete now in a fey days. The ;• wisdom of this party m slicking so long I 1 over this claim, on which they have exP aided so much time and money is pretty freely canvassed, bit it is the oft repeated tale of faith, and it is to be hoped they are resting their hopes on a f rtune, and not in their faith following a chimera, like unto the weary and parched traveller following the miasma of tiie desert in search of water, but only doomed to disappointment.