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Dunstan Times, Issue 542, 6 September 1872, Page 2

Mr. T. L. Shepherd, telegraphed to us from Wellington last evening as fo lows:—“I am not supporting the Gold-fields Hill as introduced. I supported the proposition to p Tjnit mining on private property only. The Bill is now passing through the Goldifiebls Committee, and has been referred to the Attorney-General for considerable alteration. The mining interest will be looked after and protected.” In our last week’s issue we reported that Anderson ami Go’s dredge on the Kawarau river, near the Roaring Meg creek, had struck good gold. We are now able to report that the result of their last week’s working was over forty ounces of gold of the coarsest character ever yet obtained in the locality. An accident of a serious nature occurred on Tuesday afternoon last to William Jones one of the workmen engaged in sinking a shaft in the Black Horse Quartz claim, Garrick Range. The accident was caused by the slipping in of the side of the shaft. Welare given to understand thepoorfellow is frightfully crushed, and that Dr. Lake, the attending surgeon it the case, has called in Dr. Thompson, of Clyde to assist him. During the past week a number of new hooks have been received by the Clyde Library Committee and p. 1 aced on the shelves o F the institution. The newly elected Committee are completely rehiodelling the conducting of the institution, and are wo; king most energetically to perfect what hitherto has beeen anything hut a creditable institv. tion. We hope to see them supported in their efforts by the outside public, Clyde and its surroundings possess the whole of the requisites to accomplish this end, and it. will he great'y to the shame of one and all if the institution is allowed to again languish for want of support. We would draw the attention of owners of racehorses to the rules of the Dunstan Jockey Club Spring Race Meeting, whereby I it is imperative that the nominations for

the two principal events must be lodged with the Secretary on or before 8 p.m. of Wednesday, the 11th inst. We are requested to state that the Secretary can at < all times he found at the Club Room, Port Phillip Hotel, and will be happy to give any information as may he required respecting the meeting. We are in termed by MrThos. Logan,that his Crushing Machine for Pipe Clay Gully, Garrick Range may he expected to arrive daily, It will consist of two batteries of 4 stamps each, each stamp weighing 5 ij cwt Motive power a 14 horse power engine, capable of working up to 21) horse power M r Logan has superintended the whole machin. ery and says, when erected will combine every improvement that it was possible to obtain. We understand he intends crushing for the public at 20s. per ton. We also hear that Mr. John Alves purports erecting a machine in the same Gully by which he will crush for os, per ton. Mr. Nuttall, the projector of the Villaine principle for dredging the Molyneux, arrived at Clyde on Wednesday iast, since when he has been seeking information in all directions respecting the river and its deposits. On his return from Cromwell last evening, Mr. Nuttall informed us that, from what he could glean, ho tas not tin remotest idea but that h : s principle would succeed in extracting the gold from any portion, of the river bed. He desired us to state tb it he will remain in Clyde throughout to day, and that in the evening he will be happy to meet, at Eames’s Dunstan Hotel, any gentlemen interested in the nvei workings, and explain to them the system of his principle. News from Bendigo reefs is most cheering the Aurora Company’s tributers have struct upon a lode of quartz of a highly payable character. Time will tell whether it is th< main reef or a leader, but it is assumed to) > the main reef. The Cromwell company continue to raise good stone from lease No. 1., also from the Golden Link claim, and in lease No. 2. they have strucic lately some very rich stone ; the company’s claims are whole on the looking better than for some time past. We hear that other claims ar being prospected, hut have not heard results_ By the advertisement of application to register the Pneumatic Gold Mining Company, it will be seen that Mr. M'Lennan is willing to test the capabilities of his invention There are still one hundred and forty six shares unallotted, and we would urge upon the district to subscribe liberally to it, so as to ensure one of the machines being constructed in this neighborhood. iEgles, in the Australasian, says :—There are some staunch dram-drinkers about. In a Victorian mining township, to which 1 don’t care to give unpleasant prominence, there are fourteen public houses for the accommodation of five hundred inhabitants. It is a wet country, and you can’t travel far without apiritons consolation. Speaking to a successful miner of one of his mates there, the reply was, “ Bless your life, he hasn’t been sober for eighteen months.” Nor has he. We would draw the attention of the miners of Alexandra to the advertisement conveninga meeting for to morrow, Saturday evening, in the Library room,- Alexandra, with the object, of eliciting opinions .on the new Gold Fiehls Bill. The Lyltleton limes says that a party of men who have lately returni I from a prospecting tour in the Mackenzie Country report having earned at the ol 20/,q)er neck for the patty.

The following telegram, receive I by a gentleman in Clyde, was kindjy placed at our disposal.—Government Buildings, WelI Upton, “Gold Fi.elds Bill bef re Gold Fields Committee, will'be altered materially. No chance passing this session. The New Zealand Government Gazette contains the prelamation of W. Beresford ; Mayor of Alexandra, J. U. Cambridge', Mayor of Clyde, and Michael Fraer ; Mayor of Cromwell being appointed Justices of the Peace under the Otago Municipal Corporations empowering Act 1805. The Daily Times says:—A meeting favorable to the construction of a submarine boat on Mr. Nuttall’s plan described by ns a few days ago, for working the beds of the auriferous rivers of Otago, was held at the Criterion Hotel last evening. Mr. Nuttalj explained the nature of the invention, and its applicability to the purpose for which it is designed. A resolution was unanimously adopted by the meeting to construct a boat on the principle of the invent! m, a number of those present expressing their willingness to subscribe towards the enterprise. The Big Beach, Lower Shotover, is again turning out very rich. The Sun Sing Tong Co. (Ham Tie and party) have been, it is said on.soi.nd authority, making about 900/. a week. The Beach Co. (Ah Chuy and party) have also just got on the run of gold, and obtained about 120/ last wek. The Chinese own all the Big Beach claims, having purchased out the Europeaninterests, and thus acqui cd not only a promising, bat an extensive held for their operations.— Waha tip Mail. With reference to Mr, Stafford’s motion the Post says:—Breakers ahead? The Minstcrial ship is driving on the rocks. The captain and tiie officers have lost their presence ofmind, and all hands are beginning to think of the propriety, of saying their prayers? Having passed tbs Scylla, Curtis, the Mmaterial cock-boat is in clanger of the Charyhdis Stafford. “E’en JPalinurus no Ided at the helm,” and even Captain Fox lost his reckoning yesterday. Should the shipwreck occur, and little short of a miracle can save the leaky old ship now. Captain Fox and Lieutenant Reeves will inevitably be drowned; Paymaater Vogel may swim ashor > without a rngko cover him Lieut-.-uai t Ormoud will reach dry land with a Superiii: tendency in his pocket, Cabin-boy Gisborne will get to shore in the Annuities Lifeboat!, and Doctor McLean will paddle his own [ M aori] canoe to .the safe haven of Hawke’s Bay.

As a reminiscence of hyegone misadventure we clip the followiu from a contemporary:—Thefolbiwing extracts from the diary ofandold Wanganuite now located in Westport will give our readers an idea ot what people in the sea-beleagttted town have to contend aiainst:—‘Tit trouble ked ashore this time. Total wreck of the Empire Hotel, on Tuesday, 23rd July, when at 2 p. m, the sea commenced coming in at the kitchen door—3 pm., meat sate carried an ay—4 pm. water tanks broke adrift and made tracks—s p.m. ebb tide and the house once move h'gh and dry—from G p.m. till midnight all hands aching and removing goods,—Midnight, kitchen carried j away by a green sea—l a.m., two hackparlors sailed Cor Guam—2.3o a m green sea rolling through the house and out of the front door into the street—3 a.m., barmaid and housemaid taken safety on to dry land—all hands for the next three hours up to theirwai-ts in removing furniture, kc—got into new hotel during forenoon on Wedit sday and] jet to work to dry dunnage.”— Westport Times.

From a perusal of Hansard we find tha the first reading of the Gold M ning Bill was on the 30th July without discussion, but on the second reading on the 9th o August, a discussion took place, in which some eleven members joined, including Messrs. Shepherd, Mervyn an I Bradshaw but stranre as it may appear, the clauses only referred to by all, with the excepiion "f the two latter gentlemen, were tin se relating to mining on private property. Mr Mervyn however referred to the clauses ap pointing Inspectors, and those under the beading of water-races, dams and reservoirs, and Mr. Bradshaw dealt with the classification of claims, and tha Inspectors, of whom he said an army of thre • hundred would be required. All however congrat luted the Government on the able and comprehensive measure submitted to the House. The Daily Times remarks: —“ The Mount | Ida Chronicle is, wo regret to say, much pained because, in a recent issue, we stated that the Honorable Captain Fraser had spoken of Naseby as ‘ the most miserable place on the face of the earth.’ Our contemporary re-puVilishes an extract, occupying nearly one of its columns, from the Hansard report of Captain Fraser’s speech, and containing the words wo quoted- The Chronicle, in its ‘ pain,’ accuses us of misrepresenting, misquoting, garbling, &c., because we stated a simple fact, without a great many accessories. That Captain Fraser did make the remark we quoted, Hansasd will show? and it will also show that the quotation was not falsified or garbled. We simply quote it to show what, in Captain Fraser’s opinion, Naseby is; not why it is so, or what it may become, which are separate questions. As well might the Chronicle accuse a person of ‘ misrepresentation’ who should say that New Zealand had a debt of eleven or twelve millions, without entering into long details as to how that debt was incurred, or what prospects there were of paying it off. When the smart of the Chronicle’s ‘ pain’ has w rn off, it will, perhaps, be able to see that there are differences between the past, the present, and the future, and between cause and effect. Then, too, it will be possibly be abe *o say whether the statement that ‘ A aseby is the most miserable town on the face of the eanb’ is true or not. In the article to* fetTi.d to, it has not denied tLo truth o£ j those woijjs, and we therefore pre.tuaGthM; the statement w z wed touuded.”