THE GOLD FIELDS.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1924, 6 July 1869, Page 2

THE GOLD FIELDS.

DUNSTAN.

The mild weather during the past week has been most favorable to mining in the district, it having had the effect of replenishing the water races that had been getting very low, thereby enabling several cla ms on the banks of the Motyneinf to get to work again. The claim has commenced work, and is doing well. The Mamiherikia Water-race Company’s claim at Butler’s Point, on the Manuhcrikia, is progressing very satisfactorily, and from the appearance of the different strata the Company have gone through, a rich deposit is awaiting fin the bottom. Th:,' Company at Butcher's Point, known as Stanbrook and party, are working with a will; the pluck and perseverance evinced by this company in battling against the many difficulties that beset them deserve a rich reward, and it is to be hoped they will meet with that they are seeking. There are about twenty men emp oyed on this claim. . The Ovens Race and other companies who are sluicing away the banks of the Molyneux, are apparently being remnner ted for their labor. T e dredges between Clyde and Alexandra, five in all, are doing remarkably well; this branch of pulling employs sixty men. ’ 'I he other dredges between Alexandra and Tevlot are not doing so well; the bed of the river in this direction being too bare. A party of men have lately constructed a very large reservoir on the west bank of the Molyneux, opposite Clyde.