NOTES FROM THE NEVIS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 95, 5 September 1871, Page 6

NOTES FROM THE NEVIS.

(From our own Correspondent.) August 30.

The miners here are settling down to work again since the break up of the frost, which has been very severe. w.

I see that Mr Baird reported the roads between the Nevis and Cromwell to be in a very bad state. I have on a previous occasion endeavoured to draw attention to the bad state of the roads, and also to point out the causa and-remedy. The Chinese lead the water across the road in several places without confining it w thin narrow bounds, and the consequence is that in summer the road is a sheet" of water for. sou;*"distance, and hi winter a sheet of i\"7, rendering it very dangerous to travellers. Between thirty and forty new chum Chinamen iovs*'~> their way up here. Some of them, how«"er, turned back again, evidently not li"'.iig the climate and prospects. I hear many arguments in favour of the Celestials —such as their their boing j satisfied with ground that has been abswv | doned by other miners, and. tl«*;i- dealing for j ready money ; but it is epiite a mistake. i They would not work the ground they do now I under the same restrictions as to the size of I claims as existed when the Nevis first opened, i and paying the same prices for goods as the I miners then did. And if they pay cash, how I is it that the Bankruptcy Court in Dunedin j has opened its doors to them ? Some time ago, I saw in the " Tuapeka ThnC~ ! ' that all the names from this place on the Electoral lie" bad been objected to, or struck off. It appears that no action has been taken in the matter, and consequently the number of voters will bo reduced to those who made application last March. The humbug of the Electoral 8011, and the. y-rper ! sent out as the Provincial Government Ga- ! zctto, are of no benefit to the public, and | might be abolished altogether without any material loss or inconvenience.