THE LAKES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 380, 30 July 1869, Page 3

THE LAKES.

(from our own correspondent.) AiiUOWTowx, Jnl v 2G

To commence a 1- tter is far more difficult than writing it, while, to stprt a letter when there is nothing particularly engrossing, is by no means an easy matter. I must, this time, have, recourse to that much abused phenomena the weather, for after all, without it we could not live, and what is equally as bad, without it we could not write. To begin, I may as well say that the weather is very warm during the day, and very cold during the night, so yon see we are bl ssed with' the two extremes, the fruit of which, to us bipeds, is a good crop ol chilblains By the bye, you are lucky people at Clyde. ‘-The greatest medical discovery of the age,” in the shape of a speedy and certain cure for iluse confound d annoyances has been made there. The report of the skill of your Doctor Mar hall has reach d us,* and some f w pots of Ids infallible ointment—one application of which relieves, and another radically cures—have foilnd their way among a few, who speak, highly of this great discovery’and its cur tire powers. Should 1 myself ho afflicted, 1 will procure a pot of the salve at once, ami when released from pain, (I am told that chilblains are painful things) will lose no time iu crowning Clyde’s benefactor to mankind with inky laurels. Lucky again! another feature in the weather is that the accumulation of snow upon the ranges has largely increased during the past week. A t this the “sluicsrs” rub their Lands with joy; to them it is njlurc’s store of water, awaitin'* on’y the warm rays of the sun to cause it. to .come gradually trickling down the mountain sides, supplying them with a mechanical agent, without which the gold would still lie comfortably e sconced in its earthy bed, in which case there would he no diggers, no storekeepers, no gardens and farms, no newspapers, no possible means of existence for “own correspondents,” after that, nothing but a few stray sheep, tended by some semi Alexander Selkirk, who might remain for ever “lord of all. he surveys,” for what I myself or the read r of this would care.

Oh, what a rumpus and riot there Was at Queenstown during the election for mayor! A decatchment of Horse Marines, embarked from on hoard the steamer Antrim, would scarcely have been able to have kept the peace; jets ot hot water from her boilers mhdit have been better in cooling the courage or ardour of the bellicose rival factious, but there were neither of these, not even the ordinary Police Force, the members of which probably betook themselves jojtlic hills; there to watch the affray, a wise course I am inclined to think, when vve take the disparity of numbers into consideration. Ho journa' would have recorded that large bodies of police wore present to maintain order, it would have appeared thus;—“ The dead body of a policeman was found fearfully mangled, hut by whom or what party all efforts have failed to discover.” As, however, I am not a “penny-a-liner,” I will pursue this subject no furth rthan to remark that there was a jolly row, and the best man won.

His Honor l Judge Grey held a sitting,of the District Court, on Monday last. There were only tWo cases for hearing, Mt‘. Brough, from your town, appearing in one. We are a very quiet people up here, consequently not letigious. Judge' Grey gives such good advice about the folly of going to law, ■that f really believe he prevents cases coniimr into Court. - This may be a very good thing for the public, and for which we all respect his Honor, and Iris salary is, perhaps, better earned to the country than in hearing and deciding’ cases, but it is death to the Lawyer who, ueless there be litigants, cannot possibly exist. jA ....