MOUNT BENGER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 768, 3 June 1864, Page 6

MOUNT BENGER

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT )

TeVIOT JCNOTION, Mount Bbnoer, 30th May, 1864,

Tbebad news from Picton has occasioned considerable reaction' in this district. Things are becoming;Bettled again, and those who commen£ed..,toshpw symptoms .of the prevailing epidemic have'suddenly recovered, and determined to temain where they are. Mining matter* are about. .AsT tl^ey week. _, We have had^ come bad weather, with fearful wind from the N.W., which had the effect of raising the river •boat two feet, but the abatement has up to the

present time* (since the rise) bee'h' iil excess;of th° mcrea.e, fiftth. as regards time and vJume. ; JJuKinBS? is still .dull; ,the faith, in the future appear* 'to be aa great as ever. .', Two. large- iron stores (new ones) are just completed. .The one erected by Messrs Marks and Kivers, ot the Manuherikia, aud the other (also ,a bakery) bj Mr H. Neil, late of the Serpentine. Goods to any extent continue to trrive daily, and must be disposed of somehow or other, or our merchants would not continue to procure them. Good aeo unts continue to be received of tnt doings of those who are sticking to the banks. 1 wonder that more do not avail themselves of this certain mode of making much more than a living The Teviot is (of afi the diggings that I ever saw) the jolliest place to live at imaginable. Pro visions are chejp, and the climate is second to none in the world. With these advantages an income of three, four, or five pounds per w ek (all hough obtained from the much despised I banks) is not to be scouted. The men here who .-tick to it are making that (and perhaps more), I and goodness knows there is any amount oi ground. P.eaently plenty of water will be to hid, and then I doubt not that our escorts will speak for themselves. From Miller's Flat I hear very good accounts. A. large number are at work constantly, and th* bank sluicing claims are turning out remarkably well. Several new races are being brought in, and matters generally are looking up The Pomahakaand Campbell's still hold a good population, as also the Serpentine, from all of which the accounts are good, though the weather just now in those places is exceedingly bad. 1 Sear of shares in Campbell's selling for as much as LBO for the sixth, share of an ordinary claim. Whether this is true or rot I cannot soy, but so I am informed, and certain it is that a very large quantity of heavy gold continues to come in from that portion of the district. A good many miners are taking up permanent residence here and establishing themselves in comfortable dwellings. ■ YeS'.erday (Sunday) morning a very large congregation assembled at the Court House. Mr H Stratford, the Dunstan lay reader, officiated for the gentleman who usually performs the services, and to whom this district is greatly indebted for his exertions in establishing the observance of the Sabbath. Mr Stratford preached a very impressive sermon, of great practical application, from Luke c. 12, v. xx: " Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee." It is hoped that the congregation, which has improved a good deal of late, will always in future come up to the standard attained yesterday.