TINKER'S GULLY, DUNSTAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3198, 21 May 1873, Page 3

TINKER'S GULLY, DUNSTAN.

To the Editor.

Sb, —I am induced to notice the letter of your Tuapeka correspondent in your issue of to-day, not on account of the attempted sneer at me, which I can afford to treat with contempt, but of the depreciation of an important portion of the Dunstan district, because the name of the place is not of an euphonious ohaiactcr. Your correspondent speaks of the place as “ a locality bearing the classic appellation of Tinker’s Gully, situated at the foot of the Punstan Range, as the scene of his [my] postand he also states that 1 carefully eschewed the centres of population. I beg to inform you, eir, that the district of which Tinker’s Golly is the centre, bounded on one side by Dry bread, and on the other by Devonshire Gully, is a thriving mining district second to none in the Colony, and that it has about one hundred voters on the electoral roll. It is such districts and such men as reside there that have made Dunedin what it now is—the chief city of the Colony, I addressed the electors at Tinker’s Gul y in consequence of a promise made the previous year, and I desire to say publicly that I regard their support and confidence as being aU-important to my public reputation. The candidates at the last Saperintendental election thought it prudent to address the e’ectors there. 1 also remind your correspondent that a few days later 1 addressed the electors qt Cromwell, forty mile ß distant, it beipg one of the important inland toyrns in the Province although less important than it will be in the future 5 apd that it will, in my opinion, be the centre of a thriving community of miners, when the Blue Spur will, in the Tuapeka district, be a tradition of the pash—--1 am, Ac., Thos. L. Shepherd. Dunedin, May 20.