ARROWTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 47, 5 October 1870, Page 5

ARROWTOWN.

— o — a Correspondent. ) October 4, 1870. The long-looked-for rain has come at last, and its coming is true wealth to the. entire district. Every branch of the vegetable kingdom has been promising fair enongh ; but now we can see things growing. The amount of Held crops this year exceeds that of all former ones ; ami with the start they are now getting, it will be ill luck indeed if this does not beat all previous years in prosperous results. In the orchard, the fruit trees are in profuse blossom, and have hitherto escaped the usual frosts of the season. As this local industry has lately been gone into here by many on an extensive scale, importation of fruit will every year lessen, and exportation soon become the order of the day. In mining matters there is little to report. John Chinaman has been bringing more grist to the Warden’s mill than that worthy gentleman is likely to appreciate, if future court-days are to be a repetition of yesterday. Sickening cases of raining disputes, lost or stolen cocks and hens, involving the beauty and fashion of the town, occupied the court till dusk. The more important cases were the applications for agricultural leases on the Crown Terrace, which is admitted to be the finest soil in the district, though situated at a high elevation. Some of the applications were rejected on the ground of the applicants not being British subjects ; and the rest granted subject to certain reservations, such as water frontages, auriferous ground, peat bogs, &c. A week ago, a disastrous fire occurred on Mr Paterson’s farm, at Hayes Creek, by which 100 bags of wheat, newly threshed, and a valuable threshing machine, were completely destroyed. An inquest will be held to-day as to the cause of it. The Arrow District School Committee have annouuced an entertainment for the benefit of the school. They have issued one of the most attractive programmes over offered to the discerning public of the district. Certain it is that the Library Hall'will be filled on that occasion, and in a better cause it could not be occnpied. You will of course have heard of the projected new Queenstown newspaper. In the list of its titles (and their name is legion), it inserts that of Arrow Guardian , which is very pretty; and we are extremely grateful for the guardianship coming from that quarter. Reliable information has been received that we will soon be in telegraphic communication with the rest of the country ; so that if any more of our townsmen wish to rob the escort at the Dunstan, they will certainly bo picked up before they gat home, as Rcnuie certainly would been had o telegraph station been hero.