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Dunstan Times, Issue 851, 9 August 1878, Page 2

Pnosrr.crmo for deep leads on the flats and terraces between Clyde and Alexandra some fourteen years a so was the idea that seized one and all alike in this district, hut after one or two failures and the expending of some ten or twelve hundred pounds it gradually lost favor, and subsequently was allowed to die from pure inanition. At the time referred to two shafts were sunk, but neither deep enough to admit of the least idea being formed as to whether gold existed at a lower level, consequently the labor and money expended on them was of no good. There was also a tunnel driven in from the river at or about high water mark. The exact distance driven wo do not know, hut we do., know that,the evidences of gold were in plenty, in fact, in

quo part of the iunnel, a very rich patch of gold was obtained, but for a cause known only to those interested the patch was merely worked out and no attempt made to trace it farther. Wo may hero say that the tunnel was the whole distance carried in on the rock bottom, with a gradual fall into thq flat. The idea lias again cropped up, and a mooting is convened for Tuesday evening next, in the Town Hall, Clyde, for tho purpose of discussing it, and the result wo hope will bo an organization' that will Ire able once and for all to settle tho question—docs gold exist in the flats? Alexandra and Clyde are alike interested in tho question, as also is every interest in the district, therefore all should bo to the fore, and with their aspirate wisdoms and experiences assist in tho deliberations.