The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY JANUARY 26, 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1083, 26 January 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY JANUARY 26, 1883.

Beneath the rule of men entirely jus* The pen is mightier that the sword.

From time to time we hive referred in these columns to the “ Priestman Dred;e ” as being a suitable machine for lifting the auriterous pavels of the Molyneux, or in other worls, for drelgingthe Molyneux. Feeling somewhat assured after a study of the drawings and 1-tterprrss descriptions of it in our possession, and moreover, from the work we saw it ddi'gin the Dunedin ■Harbour, that it could not fail in what was to ne typectod of it ; an 1 still further, from the lengthened come sah’on we had i few months since with Mr Hubbard, one of the manufacturer’s traveling ag-nts, after he had, in our comp my, seen the river and made himself acquainted with the descriocon of grave that had to be dealt with an 1 the various difficulties that had to be coped with in dredging the Molyneux for its go ; d Pn deposits. Hiving by the last mail received a communication from the manuf ictuiers, in which they stats that they havep eparel plans of a dredger specially designed fornising g Id from the Mo'vneux, we again refer to the sn' j ct, aid that in the hope that those interested—viz, every business man and miner in the districtmay be brought to look upon the Priestman dredge with favour, and in the en 1 induced to raise funds sufficient to pn chase one and place it on the rive-. The point of vantage the “P. iesim.an” has above all other dredges is that i‘s working pares o m he utilised fir other purposes than dr. d; ing ; therefore, if it should fail as a diedper, the possibilities of which,.however, to our mind are very remote, the speculation cn - not he a tofa’ failute. Tne m .re expensive parts are a stream emiin' with trav*'ling crane fitted with special winding gear to act on the dre Iger, and as these appliances are in every dav requisition on wharves and railway s ation fir tie loaling a't I discharging ot cargo and freight as we arid before, shoul 1 that very remote po-siln itv of a failure l>e the remit after tiial the «I o « outlay would hot be lost. The Miss s Priestman a'e anxious ; n the extreme for 'heir dredger to be on the vfolyn nix anl from what we le,vn from them we think in all probability they would take a large interest in a company if one were formed. We, therefore, in the true interest of the dist' iet suggest that cnrreepmi denca should 1 e opene d with the firm to as certain cost of a machine in its entirety, and the amount of interest ( f any) they wuul i take in a company if one were floated.