QUEENSTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 476, 2 June 1871, Page 2

QUEENSTOWN.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT )

On Sunday afternoon, for want of better e nployment, I took a str d upon the terrace above the town, an amuse i my. elf with counting the houses newiy creme I nring the pass nine or ten months, The total number was thirty Jive. This is progress with a vengeance, arid we can only hope that this suoden growth may not prove like that of the mushroom, anil lx? merely the forerunner of a downward reaction. Tim most no icea le Imildin. s nr; the now store lately built for Me srs. H . least, in and Co.; fie two storey sem -detache i house ■ uilt bv Mr. Eichanlt, for the use of famil es visiting the Lakes; an: he new malt-house erected Iy Messrs. Suimau aid Davis, at a cost of over £9OO. Mr. Eichanit’s i uildiug will supply a want long lelt in the town, as it will ensure peace and quiet to hose desiring it, and itcommau s an uninterrupted view of the hay and ake. Messrs. Surman anl Davis have alto a ly mabed some gram grown in the di-trust, and for the future will be altogether independent of the imports I ai tide.

Mr. Richardson announces an art union, to take place ill a month or s■ >, anil informs me tLat he will ndeavor to seen e some entirely ew studies of the lake scenery lor it. He showed me a new apparatus he his for that purpose, enabling him to take ph tographs c.msidera ly larger than those which were obtained for the Clyde Art Union some months ago. The new studio rec ntly erected by Win for i hotagr.il Jiic portraiture seems to be Ml that could bo ■lesired.

A new Chinese store is eifig built hj Mr. Wong Kit iu Ballar t street, which will increase the number of Chinese repositories in Queenstown ;o three.