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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 54, 4 November 1863, Page 4

"[JNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA. GOLDFIELDS' AGENCIES. DUNSTAN MANUIIERIKIA Arrow River Hogburn Tuapeka Queenstown. POST OFFICE, MAORI POINT. Mails Arrive—Thursdays and Saturdays. I^eave—Wednesdays and Fridays. Letters and papers to be ported the evening previous to the departure of the mail. H. W. Peryman, Postmaster. ROUTE FROM VICTORIA TO THE LAKE GOLDFIELDS. The shortest route is via Invercargill, which is at least one day nearer Victoria than Dunedin. The steamers Gothenburg and Edina call regularly at Invercargill, and the Aldinga and Om« o at th« Bluff, which is distant from town 20 miles. From Invercargill the North Road is followed, beginning at Dee-street. About four and a half miles from town the road turns to the left, and from thence to Winton Bush the dray track should be kept, then the Survey Line to the River Oreti, ana lrom thence the dray track should be kept to the foot of the Lake. If the Oreti is high the east bank can be kept all the way. There is a track leading back from the accommodation house on Rogers' station, which saves fording twice. By this route the distance is only 92 miles from Invercargill, the road perfectly level, and there are accommodation houses all the way. From Dunedin via Kingston, (foot of the Lake) the distance is 220 miles ; via the Dunstan, 150 miles. This latter road is mountainous to a degree.