BLACK’S.

Dunstan Times, Issue 602, 31 October 1873, Page 3

BLACK’S.

r r ?!’ |HP • 10 I fJPft’J'Tf .15 i ! NOTES BY. A.C'BRESPONDEST. Ihe roads are dai'y improvin'.', which is a boon to all sections of the community, Tlie acricnlturisjs are quite eluded at their prospects of good crops the coming harvest;! The season throughout has Ineu exceedingly favorable, and the late replenishing rains must do a vast deal of good. In reference *o minin'.', things are lookin: healthy with all hands.. At No. 3, tlie returns are exo ie lin' anythin: ever g<t before, the last washing b* ing four hundred an I twenty ounces. , I dpi not hear the cxa n t time taken’ in getting .this quantity of g M, or the numbe- of hands employed! but it is currently said that Mr. J. Pitlchcsl who is the principal shart holder, netted as his share som-thing like 1,100/, This c'aim has been payin i well for soine months, eviden ing plainly that it is no' nv re patch, and it is a wonder no attempt is made to get another shaft, doiyq, ghe principal drawback being the water to contend against. How, to my mind, this is no ■obstacle. 0 i the contrary, it might be a boon, as it c mid lie employed for washing the dirt with. The ra-ans.to overcome it should be a steam ;engine, and a lift of pumps, instead of the lumbering and expensive whim I advocate this b cause there is a large vein of lignite in an upper layer along the course of the deep lead. In speaking of this s am of coal, I may mention it his been sug rested that specimens of it he sent to the .Government Geologist to obtain his rep irt as to its pooperties.. The action taken by the manager of the Matakanui Station of impounding indiscriminately all the cattle and horses from his rn ih i elicite !c un nents anything Imt favorable to that gentleman. Mr. I>. Stronaeh, it is reported, is going to have a general muster. I hope the object is only to ascertain ownership, not to impound, or there is likely to be a growl.