THE LAKES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 204, 24 March 1866, Page 3

THE LAKES.

(FKOM A COItUESrOXDEXT.) Queenstown, March 21

The Goldfields Boroughs Election caused some little excitement here, and strenuous efforts were made to poll a respectable show of votes for the quasi local candidate, Mr. Bradshaw. Only eighteen, however, could be mustered, and of these three proved recreants, and voted for Main, who is looked upon, being a squatter, as the incarnation of evil. It is a pity that Mr. Bradshaw did not take the field earlier, and at least show his colors." He has gone in, however. Mr. Kanders has made another failure, not polling a single vote, except at Arrowtown, where he scored one to Main's twenty-four.

Mr. Moss's answer to the letter of the Chairman of the meeting, who wrote, in accordance to a resolution, to inquire into the truth of the statement that Mr. Main accompanied a deputation of squatters to intimidate the Government, re Clause 28 of the Goldflelds Amendment Act, has been witheld as yet from publication, hut its contents transpired, and rained the liQpes of the Handera party- The matter caunoi rest as it ia, but must bo cleared up. Either-slr. Mandere tvbs under it gross misapprehension, was gulled by a wiser head than his own, or was guilty of unpardonable misrepresentation. Main, no doubt, fost his election from this and other reiterated misstatements.

A prospscting claim upon a new quartz reef has been granted at the Arrow to a German party of three. A rush, of speculators at once took place, and three rainin" leases upon the line of the lode %vere applied for in one day. The reef is said to be well defined, and the Casing has been

I proved to contain payable gold. The 1 Njality is a gully, three miles from Arrowtown, beading into the Arrow Kiver, beII ween the township and the ford. There n.'f cilities for working machinery on the ground by water power, as the creeks are available for that purpose. The Criterion works are approaching completion, and shares have risen to a quotation cf .£7O, though no transactions have been stated at that figure. The Plutus and Jupiter registered yesterday, and have now a corporate existence, and must commence operations. The other claims upon the line of reef will probably complete their registration within about a month.

By the latest accounts I learn that the Aitow Alluvial Company is likely to be floated in Dunedin.

New discoveries of quai-tz reefs at Hoke Creek and the Upper Shotovcr are reported, and several new leases have been applied for in those localities.