ARROWTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 694, 6 August 1875, Page 3

ARROWTOWN.

(FROM OUR OWV CORRESPONDENT.) The promise of the Waste Land Board that they will sell -one hundred acres ot highly auriferous land on the Crown Terrace and bordering the Arrow River, to Mr Patrick Kerin, who has been in occupation •of the same under agricultural lease, has ■created considerable indignation, and the miners have gonk to very considerable ext pehso and trouble to stay the suicidal pro mise of this unthinking Board, who seem. * igly desire, if possible, to bring gold mining to an end. It is very generally thought that |inAlienees’ have been bi-o'.._ht to liear upon the Board to dispose of this laud to Mr Kerin, the nature of which are tut scarcely understood, and onf local Loud Board are blamed. There is one thing certain that the body by no means en joys the . -Confidence of the-genenl public ; its members are exclusively of the upper ten Qheonstown clique, and imbued wi-h strong -sheepist predilections, together with a very imperfect knowledge of admixis'ering the -affairs of the lands suitable to the wants a-nd wishes ot the m'ning community, while the Arrow has altogether been ignored in the Rejection of the officers of the Board.' In gold mining affairs there exists eonsiderable renewed‘vigor. The extraordinary successes at Skippers lias set almost everybody q'n.-irtz mining. The Messrs Southberg are reported to have struck the Scandinavian Jpde m their new low (evcl tunnel in the 01-.1-British and American-Company’s ground. Twospecimons which I saw taken from a leader are rich in heavy gold, and promise exceedingly well for the main body of the, stone,, The Phoenix Tribute Company find the stone improve as they drive -"to theeastward."' The New Wear’? Gift are getting on better than over. Their ’ast crushing wriit loz lldwts to the ton, but thequartz n-.w being grassed stiows a de- ,, - tided improvement mi.that,, The .Ot.lgo Company No. 1, north from the Phoenix,

are forr r whip)!; tljoy can scarcely fyil (twjfiut., ,Pipce ot Wales, same line, has 'been taken up, and the stone taken Jgyable quantities. Thiif out exceedingly j well. reef has been opened,'(Of father, reopenedl-nlfy Mcggra Edgar and Harris, at Butcher’s Gully J' Skipper’s Cl-eeWJ A' slip l hah bared a paction of tlioirteefj ttnd gold cahibe rcaijily distinguished, Several other quarto claims hire been: taken up in the neighboi-booij of the Upper: Shbtov/r. i ; The prospectors of * the • Comisk - rpef, Crown Terrace, came upoivgolilen stone, on Friday last, • They intoild-sCndihg-fwir’.tOns as p trial crushing to. Cromwell.'- , ’ .1 y g The Sons of Fortune, alluvial,v-h ive, Struck the bed rock 160 feet in from the rirqutli of theirJuifmel. The.jwash contains payable gold, but being Intermixed with largo boulders it would 1 scarcely bd'iwoltb saving while the tunnel is being driven. It will require to be. taken In SO feet Ti'rther to reach the main run of the river bed. 1 The proposed hew Queenstown-journal, the Wakatip Chronicle,, does,hot ’appeal* to find much favor here, notwithstanding that a most influential- deputation, representing our neighbors, sought to obtain shareholders. Some three or four persons suffered themselves to.have their names put dojvn fora tew shares, but 1 a untold they rogi-et having done so. and will cause them toibe erased. The intended journal, it has since transpired, is -to be the representative e| a clique and not the free thought and Independence of the people. . A right down good district paper would doubtless succc|il, whether published at 'Queenstown or {ho Arrow ; but, success can never attend any organ emanating from the projectors of the Chronicle. I hear that Mr Henry Manilla's, M.P.C., has been soliciteil’to undertake the chief, editorship, with Messrs J. F. Tidly business manager, and H. R. Macklinj subeditor. I fancy, however, that Mr Manrlers will' scarcely consent; respecting the ot|er gentlemen, , they will no doubt accept their appointed offices. If the company can only succeed in' getting this trio into'business, there is little to doiibt ljut that Mr, Wancn, the proprietor, of {he Mail, will find it extremely difficult to contend against the opposition. In such a ease, the Chronicle' can "scarcely fail proving a' most unqualified success, .