Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Tas. : 1890 - 1922), Tuesday 1 February 1898, page 2


TASMANIA.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. J

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

HOBART, Monday. LAKE DORA TRACK.

The Public Works Department have issued instructions to proceed wit thhe cutting of a track from Queenstown to Lake Dora at once. Launceston, Monday. Great satisfaction was expressed at a meeting of the Hawkesbury Mining Co.

held to-day at tbe announcement that the Minister for Lands intended at once to begin the construction of Mr Innes' track from the Stitt Bridge. At a meeting sf the Primrose Co. it was stated that the amount of ore at grass taken from the present drive was 1,100 tons. Several mining meetings were held to day, but there is nothing important to report in connection with them. All the speakers took a hopeful view of the mineral prospects of the West Coast

The elephant is nearly extinct in Mata leland, but as a compensation die natives live been introduced to die locomotive. When the first engine reached Bulawayo an induana summed it np as fol OWV llt I8 a nn8* ?nim»l belong ing to the white man. It has only one eye (die head lamp). It feeds on fire, and uteswork. When the white man pumps ft to make K work it screams. It comes from somewhere, but no one knows *ence. Of an engine, seen what the river was oiling it. die Matabele said hat ' it was a hag* animal which had the fever badly, because the wlnto ibm «ured wmodicine atnuny parts of iu