MANUHERIKIA.
Mining operations ar* vry active in this district, especially in the neiphhorhood of the Junction, where every available bit of ground is taken up ; and «bould the river only continue to keep down, the yield of gold will daily increase in quantity. Business is very brisk so much *o that the moat querulous tradesmen cannot complain.
Mr Brown's new current wheel sustained considerable damage a few days since, through a raft of timber cumin? in contact with the floats ; the stoppaere of which caused the frame to split The machine has since been repaired, and was again in woik yesterday afternoon ; it drove with great rapidity a large Californian pump, throwing a continued stream of water of twenty-four superficial inches. This invention is real'y b most valuable one, and next season will doubtless work a great change in the beach workings of our rapid streams.
The inhabitants of Alexandra have resolved upon emulating those of Clyde, in their endeavoms to procure funds for the Dnnstan Hospital; and animation bazaar will be held at the Royal Mail Concert Hall, on Tuesday, the 23rd inst.
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Otago Witness, Issue 663, 12 August 1864, Page 19
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184MANUHERIKIA. Otago Witness, Issue 663, 12 August 1864, Page 19
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