DUNSTAN.

North Otago Times, Volume II, Issue 29, 8 September 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

DUNSTAN.

Mr Warden TJobinson states the population of the Dunstan gold-field to be about 2700, of whom 2000 are miners. He says : — " The rivers still continue to go down, and a few more beach claims are consequently being worked, but there has still been no rush into the district, and the river is, therefore, not being by any means thoroughly worked. Some miners are reaping the reward of the dogged pertinacity with which they have stuck to claims known to be rich, while others have in some cases found gold where it was least expected. The claim at Duffer's Point, near Cromwell, alluded to in my last report, is still paying splendidly ; and two other parties are still getting good returns in claims adjoining. The idea of flumingVater across the Kawarau in hose, having been once started, has been taken up by several parties. There are already three races of water so carried across the river and three others are in progress. The works of the Pioneer Company, near Clyde, are now at a stand-still. Fortunately the hands have found employment at the river beaches, so they remain in the neighborhood. So'P.e of the water-race parties are short of water, but the advance of spring will obviate that difficulty." The " Dunstan Times," of August 2fith, sa y S: — » The large overshot wheel, built by Mr Win, Grant of Cromwell, for the Doctors' party, is a great success, and answers admirably, thoroughly overcoming, with the aid of two large Californian pumps, the immense drainage, which previously defied all the efforts of the party to subdue. Our Dunedin friends, the Pioneer Mining Company, have temporarily suspended operations, on account of the frosts causing much damage to the race."