THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 4

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1862.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

Just two months and a half have elapsed since Hartley and Reilly first made known the discovery of the Dunstan gold field, and stipulated for a reward of £2,000 on 16,000 ounces of the precious metal beipg obtained. The third escort only has arrived, and already the total brought by this means amounts to over 22,000 ounces, whilst fully one-third as much has come down by private hands. The result is wonderful, even to those who can draw on the last ten years’ experience of gold raining in Victoria and California. No new field, we believe, has ever turned out so much gold in so short a time after its discovery, and when it is considered how inaccessible is the situation, how difficult the means of obtaining food, and how much of the two months and a half have passed without any work being done, we challenge a comparison of the DunstSn with any gold field ever discovered. For a distance of thirty miles along the river banks gold has been found, not only in payable, but in highly remunerative quantities; and when the rising of the river drove the workers from its edge, they, with scarcely an effort, seem to have discovered rich gullies in every direction. Hardly more than a week elapsed between the time of their having to leave the river and that at which other gold workings were proclaimed, and this factf to those who know the difficulties of prospecting and the scattered manner in which the deposits in the richest fields are generally found, speaks volumes for the universal distribution of the auriferous wealth of the Dunstan gold field. In fact the Dunstan is not more remarkable for the amount of gold it has produced, than for the immense extent over which, in this short time, the gold is proved to occur. ...

The Lyttelton Times says that. Mr. Hartley, one of the discoverers of the Dunstan gold field, has purchased 500 acres of land in the province of Canterbury. The Lyttelton Times chuckles over this fact as being conclusive proof of the superior temptations to settlement existing in Canterbury. Canterbury bids fair to be well supplied with fuel from its own coal-fields. The coal from the Kawai mines proves to be excellent, and about five tons a day is now being raised by the few men at work. The price at the mines is from 20s. to 30s. per ton, according to quality. It is an encouraging fact for the breeders of horses that at the recent agricultural exhibition in Canterbury Mr J. Mawson sold his two-year-old draught entire “ Black Prince,” which gained the first prize in class 4, for the sum of £225. ARRIVAL OF THE ESCORT. The Escort from the gold fields arrived in town yesterday afternoon, bringing the following quantities of gold:—

oz. dwt. gr Dunstan . . . , , . . 8,967 0 0 Teviot . . . . , . . . 86 5 0 Tuapeka . . . . . . . 4,388 0 0 Waitahuna . . . , . . 1,389 5 0 Woolshed . . . , . . 674 13 20 15,505 3 20