ARROWTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 725, 10 March 1876, Page 3

ARROWTOWN.

—o—(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) Our Town Council have at last been aroused to a state of activity by the rumor of typhoid fever at Queenstown —this is however, not the case—the patients that were afflicted with this complaint having brought it from somewhere outside of the district. Stili, the rumor had a most beneficial effect in our case as the Mayor and Council at once set themselves to the task of clearing out the pigs, as well as ordering all citizens to remove any nuisance, or what might become such, from their premises, under the pains and penalties of tho Bye Laws, &c. Arrowtown is desperately bad off in the matter of a water supply, the small quantity permitted to find its way through the Town Race, and which only does so in a most erratic manner, is perfectly unfit for drinking or culinary purposes, while oftentimes it is scarcely usable for the washing of clothes ; citizens are compelled to cart water for use at least a quarter of a mile, and where poor people have to carry it by hand, much hardship is suffered—as a matter of course, maledictions, loud and deep, are showered upon the Mayor and Council. The news from the reefs still continues to ho good, and some fresh discoveries are reported. Of course nothing much can be done this season, as what with tho absence of roads, and tho approach of winter, coupled with the inaccessibility of tho new mining region, nothing of any very special importance is likely to he effected for some little time to come. There is uo doubt whatever about the quality and permanence of the reefs, and 1 feel assured that we are on tho eve of a considerable impetus to our mining industry. The Arrow Observer treat* its subscribers very cavalierly in the matter o! paying up subscriptions. An advertisement in last week's issue coolly informs lagging pay-

masters that, “ All those in arrear are re. quested to pay up before the end of tho month, recourse will he had to legal proceedings.” Happy would it bo for all newspaper proprietors, could they thus afford to treat their subscribers. I do not think that in this case there are many persons who will take offence. DUNEOIN. —o—(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) March 6, 1876. We Save got over the excitement of the earthquake, and the recovery of tho Cook’s Strait cable, the latter of which we have had reports ad museum. It is quite refreshing to know ihat the Cable between Sydney and hero was laid without much fuss, excepting that made by the City Council of Nelson, who wanted Sir Julius to ante «p to pay the expenses—not so bad for Sleepy Hollow. Dunedin rejoices in a Meat Market, which issituatedin the Octagon—two jolly butchers have stalls there, also, a vendor of vegetables, &c. The butchers in the town vend splendid meat, though tho mutton may be the Leiceaters, which so disgust Judge Ward, and to which he attributes half the crime in the Colony, if he were to drop into the market on a Saturday night, he would see carcasses that would charm his heart; I do not know if they are Merinos, but am certain they would make good lanterns. We are advancing in civi ization and can boast of rag-pickers, whether Mr Pavelitich claims the honor or not I cannot say of founding the new industry. The Great Btondin has arrived and Is fitting up at Kensington. In amusements we have had quite a phlethora, the Marionettes, and the great Palace Circus, which does the grand in mural decorations, which are most elaborate, the whole of the town is placarded with some splendid scenes, reminding one of the representation of the Eglington Tournament, then there is the Wonder, an artist, who has with a piece of soap coveied the looking-glasses of all the hotels in the City with splendid advertisements in the shape of writing and ornamental work, which has a very pleasing effect. Mr Charles Bright has been starring it in the Palace Circus tent by giving Freethought Lectures to large audiences, some three thousand each. Mr Miller. F.S A., late Provincial Engineer at Nelson, has got inio trouble. Some time since he was called upon to resign, which he declined to do, the Superintendent then dismissed Mm from the s crvice. Since that it has transpired that Miller had given a voucher for a sum of money, said to be for instruments from a Mr Crawsbaw, of Dunedin. It is asserted that no instruments were got, but tho money was placed to the credit of Mr Miller’s private account. After the hearing, lasting two days, he was committed for trial, bail being accepted. The latest account of the Strathmore is that, she was wrecked on the Twelve Apostles Rock, Crozets -there were eighty-eight souls on board when she sailed, forty-nine of these succeeded in landing, four of whom succumbed from exposure, the remainder were rescued by the whaler Phcenix, half of whom were transhipped to another vessel, and landed at Galle; the rest were carried on to the Mauritius, and landed there by the Phcenix. They had been some seven months on the Island, and were in a miserable condition when discovered. Furthe r particulars will no doubt come to hand by the Suez Mail, which has arrined at Adelaide, the steamer and passengers are in quarantine, on account of a case of smallpox occurring on board. Mr Oliver, of the Sussex Hotel. George Street, was to day fined forty shillings for supplying drink to an intoxicated man on Sunday last. I understand that the Police intend to act up strictly to the Clause in the Ordinance, which, until now has remained almost a dead letter. A man who had engaged to work his passage a* a fireman on board tho Phcehe, fel] between the ship and the pier at Port Chalmers, and sustained concussion of the brain. The claim for salvage, LIO,OOO, made by the owners of the Express for towing in the steamer Tairoa, which struck on a rock near Dog Island, is now being heard in the Admiralty Court, but is not yet finished. The Melbourne cricketers have been shamefully beaten by the Sydney team. Dr Hutton delivered a Lecture on earthquakes, at Camara—He said, on the want of data, no reliable idea could he got of the commencing or course of them, but that there were three districts, two in the North and one in the South Island, particularly subject to them—the people of Camara, however, need not he alarmed as it would be a considerable time before another would occur, as nothing like it had taken place since the white man had come to New Zealand, When the English fleet under Lord Nelson was bearing down upon the French ships anchored in Ahoukir Bay, just before the ever memorable battle of the Nile, the captain cf one of the British vessels addressed his crew at considerable length, and having exhorted them to remember their duty, and what their country required at their hands, he turned to the captain of marines, and said, “ Now, air, you have heard what I have said to tho ship’s company :it may bo as well for you to say something to the men more particularly under you." Upon which tho marine officer commanded “ Attention 1” and addressed them in tho following pithy and laconic manner : “ My lads, do you see that land?” pointing to the shores which they wore rapidly nearing. “ That,” said ho, “is the land of Egypt ; and if you don’t fight like the deuce, you'll soon be in tho house of bondage.” The effect was electrical. An old lady, who has pasted nearly 500 medical recipes in a book during the past fifty years, has never been sick a day in her life, and is growing discouraged. She says that some people are horn to ill luck.