DUNSTAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1346, 15 September 1877, Page 3

DUNSTAN.

Reports from Doctor's Point are still satisfactory, the yield from the prospector's claim for the week being somewhat about £500 worth of the precious metal. The adjoining claim is still getting gold, but nothing definite as to the value of the claim can be said till it is further opened up. Dewar and party's tunnel, which is now in nearly 200 ft., has had to be abandoned in consequence of having came across, in. the face, a running drift with a considerable quantity of water in it. The party, nst to be beat, however, are sinking a shaft further up the hill, with a view of striking the upper reef or getting beyond the drift and water. The existence of such a stratum was never contemplated, and when discovered is the cause of much wonderment and no end of conjecturing as to how a bed of drift and water could have got so high up and so far into a steep range. The estimated height above the present river bed is about 108 ft. — Dunstan Times.