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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 8, 27 May 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

Dunstan Intelligence.—The following extract forms part of a letter received by a gentleman in our office, from a friend at the Dunstan. It is under date Manuherikia Junction, May 11th:—"The'boat in which goods are convoyed from this place down the river had a narrow escape from being swamped while going through the rapids on Saturday week. Old Jack, the steersman, was thrown out with an oar in his hand, but after being carried through the rapids, fortunately managed to swim ashore. The boat and some of the cargo were saved. Since this accident the boat only runs to the side of the rapids. Last Monday a corpse was washed up on a rock down at the falls. In its clothes were both money and gold. It is supposed to have been a long time in the water. On the banks of the Manuherikia some parties are doing very well, averaging from LlotoLl2a man per week. On Thursday there was quite a little rush in the township and about the ferry, one party sinking in the middle of the street. Coal has been struck about two miles up the river; the seam runs through a good many claims. The boatmen used to charge L 4 10s. for it delivered at the ferry, but it is now down to L 3. It burns splendidly and throws a very good heat. A dairyman that had two places, one at the Manuherikia and another at the upper township, is missing. I have been unable to learn his name. It seems that he left the upper t township last Saturday evening on horseback with the intention of coming to the lower one. The horse has since been found, as also some cattle receipts close to the water's edge, and it is feared that the missing: man has been robbed and then thrown into the Molyneux. Boatmen have gone up the river this morning to grapple for the body. Accounts are conflicting from Black's Rush, but a good many are leaving for there. Professor Parker, the swordsman, is drawing good houses in the township, and there are amusements galore to bleed the hard-working digger of his cash."—Daily Telegraph, May 18. Queensland. —Brisbane, 7th May.—Captain Mechosck, the explorer, died here last night. He had been suffering for some years from consumption.—Leader, May 9.