Monday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 19, 4 September 1885, Page 11

Monday.

We (Dunstan Times) are reliably informed that first-class prospects have been obtained in one of the sections of the drainage channel now being coastructed on Black's Flat. From what we can glean it appears that some four ounces of gold was obtained from about a chain of the channel, and that from prospects the gold is more plentiful the higher up the flat. We look upon the discovery as being one of the most valnable that has been made for years psst, as with the channel the ground can be easily worked, and the field, moreover, is so easily getatable. One drawback to the field, perhaps, is that a large area, some 90 acres, through which the gold evidently runs, is freehold property, being the preemptive right attached to the old Black's station, and now the property of Messrs. Campbell and Sons ; but we anticipate, when it is proved that the ground is auriferous, but little difficulty will be experienced in obtaining the permission of the owners to work it.

Complaints have been received by the Imperial Government from Colonel Ridgway and the members of the Afghan Boundary Commission, to the effect that the Governor of Herat has been tampering with letters addressed to members of the commission, and also that he has been guilty of rude behaviour towards them.

It is generally believed that the meeting of the Emperors of Rnssia and Austria at Kremsir has resulted in the re-affirmation of the triple alliance.

The Marquis of Hartington, addressing his constituents at Waterfoot, Lancashire, stated that if Mr. Parnell and hia followers persisted in urging their impossible demands the Opposition would combine with the Government to place a veto upon their pretensions. The reports on the English hop crops are unfavourable.