NARRATIVE OF CURRENT EVENTS FOR TRANSMISSION TO MELBOURNE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 241, 27 September 1862, Page 4

NARRATIVE OF CURRENT EVENTS FOR TRANSMISSION TO MELBOURNE.

Oar last narrative for Melbourne was published on the 19th inst, b»t as a full summary for Europe appeared on the 17th, we shaU start from that date, and begin by.summarizing theprindpal events. .

The reports from the Dunstan hare continued to improve as the miners hare become more settled and the scarcity of provisions has ceased to be felt as a serious inconvenience. Theaters have spread themselves more and more along the Molyneux. and have also been pros! prospecting some of its tributaries with marked success. The latest news respecting this field will -be found m the letters of our special correspondent which appear elsewhere. By these it will be seen that the expected rise of the river has taken place, and that, as anticipated it has flooded most of the richest claims. Fortunately however, it is now known that the banks will par for tunnelling, capital prospects having been obtained ; it is thesefore to be expected that the effect of the rise of the river will not be to pat & stop to mining industry, but to direct it into another channel A very good report upoa the Danstan G>»ld-field has been forwarded to the Government by Mr. Gabriel Read, the original discoverer of Gabriel's Gully. It wafcpublished m our issueof Sept. 17. Mr. Bead's opinion is very favorable to the prospects of the field. _ Nokomai diggings have begun to dispute with the Dunstau for the favour of the mining popula- "-' Uon. It is estimated that there aren^about 1,500 persons an the ground. We re-pub-hsh elsewhere the report of Mr. Branni^an the Commissioner of Police, who made L special journey to the locality, for the purpose of inspecting tlie ground. There is no lateTaccount. On the old diggings there has been great dulness, consequent upon the drain of population to the new rushes, but it would appear that those who have remained oa the ground have continued to do well, and many of those who started for the rushes, and put back for want of provisians have spt m again with the most encouraging results In another, part of our present issue will be found a letter from 'Waitahuna which shows^ very satisfactory state of things, considering howsmall a population there has been lately on th*» ground With regard to the old gold-field generally, the opinion is that there is a WopSne just now for the large number of newairWaS from Victoria and elsewhere, so much eood ground having been deserted by those who were T*^? c .it°7 lllk? th^ "PiFe"at the Bunstan! Wetheretone's, for example, it is estimated SLw e P SrSS. cmi!l *i- of miaers arefrom^ There is a report of the discovery of new .ground at Post Office JBank, near Waipori, and c ?h^ nCer aw T d to, Uve been «ow n from "*■ there. Gold has also been found in payable quantities in the Shag River by a JS? If aimers who, in consequence of the sickness of some of their mates, had to camp and rest there on their return trom an ineffectual attempt to Ret to theDnnstan without provisions. At Hi^bSr « moderate population continues to work, an*d to do welL - ■ HtT hL Chi!f mai ter, of domestic interest here of vSJJf b?f n-the 7 la^ e infl«x of miners from Vjctona. During the Isst week somewhere about three thousand people have arrived. In one day nearly two thousand landed, and the effect of th£ large number of men with swags, standing a b££ the jetties and the streets, was quite like tie old nrncsof last year ; but they were qmcklvdispersed the city bem ff nowso much larger, and the icW modation for their reception so much greater/^ The testimonial dinner to Captain Darby of the City of Hobart took place on the 19th and went off extremely well. Captain Darby wis presented with a purse of one hundred

A daring attempt to break out of Dunedin Gaol was the other day made by Garrett; «S suSL s her prisoaers 'but **£**?%£*

There has lately been a great scarcity „ batcher's meat, and-the GoVernmenTi hi at length dea led to permit the importation^ o cattle from Port Albert in Gipps* Lrftt is hoped by this means to bSk *nrn the monopoly. A petition is S B.gne.l praym- for the total kbolUion of thf pleuro-pneamonia restrictions. TheSessinn «p the General Assembly ofN eW^aknd afwSaf ton is no«r bruaght to a conclusion, and it expected that Sir-George Grey wiU "hoX ly his loDg-promise3 visit to Otago. - P y