The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1874.

Dunstan Times, Issue 635, 19 June 1874, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1874.

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A general stagnation in mining is brought about by the severe frosts that have set in during the week. We may fairly say that work is entirely stopped, and, to all appearance, the weather being very severe, is likely to he for some time to come. On Wednesday next, the 24th instant, I as announced in our advertising columns, ' Mr J. 0. Chappie will sell, at Ida Valley, the Alabama Water-race, with claim and all necessary appendages for working the , same. j Mr Fache reports having sold by auction, on Wednesday last, the plant of the Con- , roy’s Quartz Mining Company, realising for : the battery 2501., the purchaser being Mr ’ Samuel Williams, for the Young Australian Company, Garrick Range. The remaining portion of the plant brought fair prices. Messrs Yeend, Pope, and Co. notify by advertisement that, in conssquence of the bad state of the roads and there not being sufficient traffic, they have decided to remove their line of coaches off the road between Clyde and Lawrence for the next three months.

In our advertising columns is a notice by MrW. A. Chapman (Anti-Spiritist) and Miss Ida Bonnifon {Seocnd Sight Performer) will give their instructive aud amusing entertainment at the Town-hall, Clyde, on Thursday and Friday evenings, the 2nd and 3rd of July. The provincial press speak highly of the entertainment, and all agree in saying the whole performance is wonderful, indeed almost marvellous, and well worthy of support. We hope to see a numerous attendance.

Says the Grey River Argus: —“Wanganui Bridge seems a favourite place for intended suicides to select as a place of exit from the worldly stage. Several have, we think, accomplished their purpose from it, and others have been rescued. Tuesday’s Chronicle records another attempt, the culprit being a woman named Timms. Mr George Davis, who was at the toll-house when she passed, noticed something strange in her manner, and watched her on the bridge for some distance, when he saw her cross to the outer edge of the bridge and get through the rails. He immediately ran up to tire piece where she had gone through, and, with the assistance of Mr Blair, who was on the bridge at the time, held her till further help arrived.” On Monday afternoon a billiard match was played at the Dunstan Hotel, Clyde, between Huddlestono, of Lancashire, who has only recently arrived in this Colony, ami John Mellor, of DrybreadThe game was for 10/. a-side, 500 up; Mellor receiving 100 points. The room was well filled with visitors, who witnessed some very brilliant play, such as is seldom seen’up-country, ending in a victory foi Mr Huddlostone in two hours and five minutes. Subsequently another match was made for 20/. a-side, to take place on the following day, between the same parties, Huddlestone giving 150 points out of 500. This game ended in a victoiy for Mellor, who won easily. Rumor sajs that a fair amount of money changed bauds over these events. It is said that a third match would result, when the abilities of the opponents and the faith of their backers mill be fully tea tod, U

Mr D. M'Kellar, M. P.C. for Cromwell, has accepted the position of Gold Fields Lecretary. According to the Launceston Examiner of the 25th ult., Tasmania hag] much to expect from the development of her gold mines “On Thursday last there was universal excitement in town in anticipation of the ‘receipt of intelligence as to the result of the washing-up of the Golden Point Company’s claim, Nine-mile Springs. As stated in our Thursday’s issue, on Wednesday afternoon the Manager, Mr Nicholas, and Messrs W. \V. White, W. Turner, H. E. Lette, Just, and (ther shareholders, proceeded to the Springs, where they arrived the same evening, on Thursday, the washing-up was completed, and six hundred ounces! of amalgam . were obtained from the plates alone, which led to the beliefthat, as the boxes usuallygive a much larger return, the yield would he one thousand ounces. However, the returns from the boxes were not up to the expactations, only yielding a little ever seven hundred ounces. These turned out six hundred and eighty ounces gold, which, with several small additions from the blankets, tailings, to,, will snake the total yield seven hundred ounces, the largest cake which has ever yerheen received from any Tasmanian gold-lield. The quantity of stone crushed was ninety-two lends, weighing about seventy-two tons, so that the yield is nearly as possible nine ounces and three-quarters to the tom’