QUEENSTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 15, 23 February 1870, Page 5

QUEENSTOWN.

(From our own Correspondent.) February 21, 1870. Items of news of any interest have been extremely few since my last letter. Perhaps the most important event was a cricket match between eleven members of the Arrowtown Club, and a like number of Queenstown players. The match was played on the Queenstown cricket-ground on Friday last, and resulted in a victory for the latter by 22 runs—the scores standing thus : Queenstown, first innings, 61 ; A rrow, 58 : Queenstown, second innings, 61; Arrow, 42. Total Queenstown, 122, Arrow, 100. The play on both sides was rather indifferent: owing, on the Queenstown side, to want of practice, and on the Arrow side, to the fact that the players were mostly tyros at the manly game. The return match, I hear, will take place at ArroWtown, by which time, no doubt, the present losing “ knights ” will bo in better fettle. Apart from the enjoyment to the players, these matches will very likely tend to create a more social and friendly feeling between the residents of the respective towns than has hitherto existed. I may mention that the twenty-two players and their friends sat down to a most racherchz supper provided by Host Tally, of Powell’s Family Hotel, and the evening was wound up with a dance. During the course of last week we had a visit from some Southland capitalists with an eye towards speculation in the reefs here. Their visit was not fruitless, for I am informed that they speculated to some extent. I am inclined to the belief that many of the reefs in the Tipper Shotover and Skippers districts would prove highly remunerative if they could be properly developed. Nothing is more likely to lead to this desirable end than the introduction of capital, and therefore I am glad to chronicle the fact that the reefs are attracting attention. Air N. Salomon, of Dunedin, has paid us a visit, and certainly his stock of jewellery is magnificent, and is well worthy of inspection. It is a sight such as we upcountry folks rarely have an opportunity of feasting our eyes upon. I fancy Mr Salomon will have no reason to regret his visit to this part, and that he will carry away substantial tokens that the ladies and gentlemen of Queenstown are not indifferent to personal adornment.