STEWART'S

Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 11

STEWART'S

.ISI^J). ' FbOM Outf'ttwff COBE^SPONDRNT.) { ; ' y\ Half-moon Bat, May 6/ ■ The wetafcher here 1 has, been simply wretched for the last ni'oiath l, ans all those who are oat prospecting have been,having a bad'time of it. A change for tne bp'tter has*taken,place within' the last 12 hoursT Swain and party have been detained at Pdrfc William for nearly a month on their road to Ntiggety.' The Inlet Mining Company are opening up the silver reef, and the stone is improving. Two men* left Lord's river seven days ago, bound for Pegasus. They Have not arrived yet, and it is supposed they are lost. '' Fishermen will be able to make good wages this here this winter, as the Bluff Company intend sending their steam tender Despatch to' the Island five daysfa week for fish. I cannot make out why some enterprising man does not start a fishing station here in the winter time. He could get all the fish he wanted to supply any market. _ , '-> Pegasus is in a sort of dormant state at present, but it is expected that plenty will be doing there shortly, as the different companies intend putting in drives and getting machinery on the fround. ' , ' • ' ' < TheMabris are all returning from their yearly occupation of mutfon birding; but' from what I can hear, it has not been a good season for them, as the weather has been dreadful and the birds scarce."' ' The Kopec rush is still all the talk, and a great deal of land has'been taken txp there, but it is • difficult to know*, what to believe about it. Some say it is no good, arid others are' loud in its praise. . '*;' , ,'