The Dunstan Times FRIDAY, 5th July, 1867.

Dunstan Times, Issue 271, 5 July 1867, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

FRIDAY, sth July, 1867.

I'enealh the rule of men enhiimy ji ki, the i>kn is mightier than the stvoim!”

The great and continued success of the fiver workings lias taken a number of people by surprise, notwithstanding all that lias been said and written about the gold in the beaches of the Molyncux, no one scarcely credited that it was so profusely and evenly distributed as has been proved to be the Case this winter- At the present moment, except during the very first of the rush, the river workings were never in so prosperous a condition; nor was there anything like so much gold being got in proportion to the number of men employed, whether fresh deposits have accumulated during the recent floods or that the water is at a much lower level than ever, is a matter open to conjecture ; but certain it is, that ground is now being wrought, from which, gold was taken before, while at the samo time there are many fresh discoveries of auriferons beaches. The Chinese population are jubilent to a degree, " John " was never on such a " Tom Tiddler's " ground before • he has gold verily for the picking up ; the' same of course applies to the Europeans, in some cases, there is but six inches of stripping, while in others, the virgin gold can be gathered in the interstices of the hard rock. The earnings of the miners range from one to five pounds per day, even in the immediate neighborhood of Clyde, -where with but some two or three exceptions, othiug was supposed to exist, any industrious man may make from six to ten pennywieghts per day, and that by only washing tihe gtavel between the Camp and Coal Pit. To obtain workmen, let the job be ever so important is perfectly out of the question, and should tlie river still keep <r o in" down as it evidently promises to do, tn almost total suspension of business, except what is connected with supplying the ne-

cessiifies of lift*, niay with -coifidcifto .la -expected. '.There never was such it bailee fo> ifie working classes to make a feW ppUMls bofore, and all who r.re not making what is ordinarily designated as wages should at once TJetake Hie tanks fcf the Mdlyneiix. ■ • • ■

C:': Ff Monday’lEscort took down the following quantities of gold,—Queenstown, 283 ounces, Arrow, 180 ounces, Cromwell 40-1 ounces, Clyde, 871 oz. 10 dwts, Alexaudra, 984 ounces, making a total of 2722 oz. 10 dwts. The official returns of the votes recorded ou the management of the Gold-fields’ question have been published, the result jPi as follows Yes, 8304, No, 178. Only 2700 votes wesc polled on the Coldfie ds ; as far as the miners are concerned the Plebiscite may be set down as a fai lire. The appeal case, Reid and party, Appellants, and Holmes and party, Respondents, heard in May last a(j Clyde, before the District Judge, Mr Wilson Grey, has been reheard as a “special case” before Mr Justice Chapman, Mr Mftcassev who appeared for the Respondents, argued the jMiint Vit some length, both of Course being divided in opinion respecting the regulations of 1864, defining a guage, and the regulations of 1802 not doing so. A technical preliminary objection taken by Mr Parsons at the opening of the case “ that the Gold fiohjs’ Act 1806 whs fib !a\v’' was overruled by his Honor No decision . been given, Mr Justice Chapman postponing the case to allow himsflf time to look thmiglrthe regulations. We have to report the death of a long and well known resideiifon the Goldfields Mi James M Loath, who died at Queens- | town, ou the 29th nit. Mr M’Heath, I both in this Province, and in Victoria, j was held in much estimation by a lar"e 1 circle of friends. Ah an instance oftlie valne'of porseve-1 ranee in mining onto prise, swe extract the : fol owing from a Victorian Paper, the ‘ln I glewood Advertiser,’ there are a number of newly formed Quartz Mining Companies ; in this Province, the subject is one of par- i j titular interest to slaveholders. “ For | several weeks past the luck of the share- ' ; holders of the Unity Company has become ■ | the theme of general admiration, bin it ap ' 11' oars to us that the term is ill chosen as i giving too great credit to chance, and too ; lift e to that intelligence ai.d per. everibo energy which have been so eminently rhown in the working of the claim for years. So far from any luck in the ordi- | nary sense of the word having fallen to the 1 lot of the Company, they have encounter- ■ ; ~(J all the opstacles to which miners are | hab'e, and their'only claim to‘destinction ! j from the majority 'of Inglewood Compa- : j " iefi hs, that they have never allowed I themselves to be disheartened by adverse prospects, but have continued stoutly to i maintain their struggles against ditlicul- i | ties, and have at last won that success j which rarely fails to attend in the long i I run, the perse verb g and the strong hearted. To show that we arc doing no more than justice to the Compa- y by | claiming their success as the result less of j luck than their own patience and pluck, j we subjoin the following list of crushings j finished since the erection of their crushing plant:—

77 “’7 7 w '..lVtiiV O U j From the above table it will be seen that for four months the Company were working the mine at a considerable loss. Nearly 2000 tons of stone wore taken out and crushed during that time with an average yield of a little over 3 dwts. to the ton, arid this with a dnbt upon the plant of nearly £4OOO, and with a weekly expenditure in the mine of £l5O. Scores of claims could bo pointed to, in which work has been stopped fortg before the average yield of gold has been as sniall as that from the stone which the Unity Com pany persisted in raising, and if the latter had followed the general example, the large cake of gold which delighted our eyes on Saturday would have been still reposing in its native earth, and the March Eeef perhaps classed with others, which are looked upon as nearly looked upon as nearly worked out, because sufficient eu-

terprise and patience is wanting to accept 'tile conditions under which they altubst Invariably exist, namely, that of being uh equal in richness in different parts of their course. 'lt is a very noteworthy cir-* ciunstance in con ection with th. working of the Unity ininc, that unless the cnor'nious quantity of poor stone, indicated in the table we have given above, had beck taken out bodily, the rich deposit walled in by:it, wotl'd never have been discovered. have been requested to call attention to the following Sales by Auction,— To morrow, by Mr W. Smithaua, at Cromwell, the household furniture of H. A SratfordEsq. On Tuesday the Hith by Messrs Cope and Fache, at Eagle Wtfn near Clyde,—Milch Cows, Chaff Cutter, Fotatoes,'Oats, Carrots, Parsnips ic. Mr John Hay, Provincial Government Agent, will deliver a Lecture at the "School House, Clyde, on Wednesday next for the benefit of the funds of the School, The subject chosen by the Lecturer is " The Land we live in " and from what we know of Mr Hay, we can assure our readers that it will be done ample justice to. ■ The Duncdin " Evening Star" says,— ""It is'a matter of common report that the offices of " Under Secretary" aria H Chief Clerk "in the. Provincial Secretary's office are to be, or have been, abolished. We understand that the present incumbent of the first named office has been olferid that of Clerk of the Executive at a reduced salary, but that ihe ' Chliff Clerk " has been altogether dispensed with; or say, " allowed to retire " wih six months' salary as compensation. We arb not sufficiently conversant with the requirements of the service to form any very decided opinion as to the propriety or otherwise of these retrenchments. Bift it cerfaAnlr does seem very strange, that all the retrenchment should fall uponsub- ; ordinate officers, whilst at the same time I'ithns been deemed essentia! to increase j both the mrmber and the pay of the mem- | bers ol the Executive. On referring to : the Appropriation Ordinance, a compar:j son of the duplicate transactions .shows 'thus:— Extra cost "of Members Of the Executive - £IOSO Saving effected by reducing subordinate officials - 210 Loss to the Province - £Bl6

to 8 OZ3 dwts gra. Nov. 5, I860 400 ... 21 18 6 „ 23, „ 400 ... 35 14 0 Dec. 8, „ 200 ... 15 5 12 „ 24 „ 250 ... 32 16 6 Jaii. 12 1867 42 ... 8 8 12 „ 19, „ 98 ... 32 4 6 Feb. 2, „ 200 ... 44 17 12 ., 16, „ 160 . 41 16 18 ileb. I, » in .. 94 17 0 .. lb, .. 232 .. 229 *» 0 „ 30, „ 205 .. 174 7 12 A pi. 3, ,. 23 ... 0 11 12 „ 9, 14 ... 1 19 0 „ 15, „ 310 .. 398 19 0 29, „ 367 .. 352 9 0 May 13, „ 348 .. 220 0 12 )> 27, , 376 ..1020 8 0