THE DUNSTAN.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 8 May 1863, Page 3

THE DUNSTAN.

(From the Dunstan News, April 28. ) A somewhat strange circumstance hts come under our notice. Upon a small islet at the confluence of the Fraser river with the Molyneux, a miner, on Wednesday last, found a deposit receipt for one hundred pounds; also, two miners' rights, the names on which, not having ascertained full particulars, we are unable to give. A singular thing in connexion with this matter is that the deposit recept is not above ten days old. Kawarau. — Singular Disappearance. — A man named James Finnell is missing from his tent since Thursday, the 16th instant. On that evening he went to a store kept by a man named Charles Kelly, to whom he sold seven dwts. of gold, and purchased some flour and other stores, leaving at about six o'clock, p.m., with only two sixpenny pieces in his pocket. He was last heard of outside the tent o. two men, named respectively George Blackburn and John Roberts, at the hour af ten o'clock p.m. Flour and sugar, sup )Osed to be Finnell's, was found by Black>urn, near his tent, on the following jnorning; also, a knife, kerchief, a sixpence, and pipe were within three feet ol jhe water, on the beach; also, a second jixpence was found in the same place by he police. The knife and kerchief are fleiitified by a miner, named William jliller, as the property ot the missing nan. Sergeant Leslie, and the police at Lawarau, made every exertion to find pme trace of him, but without success. [ On Wednesday last a miner accidentally \U over a precipice at the Kawarau jnction. It appears he approached too jear the edge of the river and lost his alance, and fell a distance of thirty feet mong high boulders and rugged rocks, trange to say, he escaped with a severe baking, and the fracture of one rib. tedical attendance was quickly procured, - nd the sufferer is now doing well