ROXBURGH.
June 8.— Splendid weather has been the rule se far ; indeed, it has not been winter at all. We had front on the Ist May-, and on several subsequent days, but the days have been vary fine. A little rain tell yesterday, but the season does not much resemble winter. However, we remember the roads. of last June, and the horrors we then endured. He laughs best who laughs last. What said the Duke of Wellington ?— " Don't halloo till you're out of the wood." Railway. — A meeting of those interested in the progress of our railway is called for next Thursday. If my information is correct, this most important meeting will, clash with a concert which comes off on the' same evening. 'A nice bungle 1 Heaven knows, we want that railway badly enough. MINING. The Amalgamated is still rolling in the dibs. They have recently pegged out another 100 acres, in which is every indication of good gold. Messrs Louden and party are talking of putting pipes into their property, the price of Doxes being prohibitive. In dredging circles there is nothing startling. When is the Ettriok dredge going to pay a dividend, by the way f „ The Hercules No. 2, which was lately for sale, as the owners had diesolved partnership, was bought in by Mr Ewing for £2/050. Mr Ewing intends to bring in at a higher elevation a new race from the Teviotburnto work an area recently pegged out by him at Dumbarton Rook, Anderson's Flat. As the race will be a contour ditch it will be a great de<l cheaper than one of ftuming, and such an undertaking will in the long run be cheaper and better than if the present line of pipes were continued to the Rock It is rumoured that Mr Ewing's lease includes the areas pegged out by Messrs Hitching and Kitto, though a later rumour states that the areas are contiguous. During a conversation with one of the owners of the Campbell's Gully reef, it was mentioned that the reef would probably average Boz to the ton. A large quantity of stone taken from the reef left Roxburgh en route for testing at Dunedin on Monday. If all the reports are true we are booked for a new era of prosperity.
ROXBURGH.
Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 25
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