ARROWTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 726, 17 March 1876, Page 3

ARROWTOWN.

—o—(FROM OUR 'CORRESPONDENT.) The news from the reefs this week is very cheering. Tire All Nations Company on the Cross .Reef entered a tunnel on their boundary lino between Messrs Cope and Symonds, (now the Maryborough Company) and struck the reef at 50 feet from the surface. The prospect obtained was an excellent one, and a large block of stone has been sent down for exhibition at the Bank of New Zealand, also other smaller specimens. lam told that the gold in the pipeclay vein which follows this reef on the hanging wall could bo distinctly perceived at any blow from the pick. A new line called the . Nnggetty promises to prove a success. Some very good stone was raised on Friday last from this reef by the prospectors, the Messrs Rcsta Bros, The Homeward Bound Company will start crushing on Wednesday—a small parcel from the Nnggetty will be put through as a trial. A large number of parties are out prospecting in the ranges, and some visitors from Cromwell, who paid Macetown a visit last w«ek, expressed great confidence in the ultimate yield of the reefs It appears that people had never looked high enough up in the ranges before ; perhaps this little fact will be useful elsewhere. Shares are advancing greatly in price, but there are few or no transactions, parties being so satisfied of the results that they have declared for holding on. The good reefs will doubtless remain in the hands of small companies. A firm of share brokers, accountants, managers, auctioneers, etc., is announced by Messrs Cope and Symonds, and considering the large practical experience of those gentlemen, they may, with confidence, calculate upon a considerable measure of success.

Onr Town Council arc great in the matter of pigs, and most determined efforts are being made to exclude all porcine beauty from the municipality. This same body will not, however, appoint an inspector of nuisances, and horned cattle are permitted to range through the streets ad libitum, to the very groat destruction of property and the disturbance of the peace of the inhabitants. Our police force appear to forget that there is such a tiling as the “Town and County Police Ordinance,” or the nuisance might he somewhat abated and night rendered less hideous. But no member of the force is on duty then, they preferring to emulate the condition of butterflies, coming out and going in with the sun. Our Town Council is, without a doubt, the most corrupt and incapable body that ever

assumed municipal functions either ; n the northern or southern hemispheres. 1 learn that the publication of another paper is on the tapis. Tire Arrow Observer and Wakatip Mall are both owned by the same party, while the former evidently is only published to keep a good paper out. The Observer la a most disreputable publication soTar as the meaning of a newspaper is concerned, ,It being nothing better than an advertising shoot., and consequently a great'tax upon peoplejwho are compollcdjby law to advertise, while advertisements are spread out all over the columns and unfortunate advertisers made, to pay accordingly. As to its reading matter, its literary excellence would scarcely pass muster in Van DiemanVLand£or St. Giles’. ROXBURGH. —o—(from'our own correspondent.) March 15. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court held here on the 7th instant, Mr H. Heron was charged by the Police with soiling liquors in the Commercial Hotel without a license. The case was dismissed, as it was shewn that Mr Heron had made arrangements to become the occupier of this Hotel, and for that purpose applications were made to the Licensing Bench at the present sitting for the necessary transfer, but pending the hearing of the case, he had been placed in charge of the Hotel by Mr Heighten as his Agent, in terms of the Licensing Act. Mr Simpson strongly commented upon the conduct of the Police Officer in intruding himself into peoples private affairs, and plainly told him if he had any knowledge of the Licensing Laws he would not have ventured to bring such a groundless charge before the Court. The decision and remarks of the Bench were met with approval by the public present. It is a matter of regret that Constable Daly does not exercise a little more judgment in the discharge of his duties.' An important and influential meeting was held here last evening for the purpose of taking into consideration the manner in which the mining reserves on the hanks of the Molyneux are being managed. It is absolutely necessary,that the mining community should take some decided steps to protect their interests in the matter, as from the wayjin which the residence area grants have been made—unpartiality does not appear to be the leading feature in the transaction. One man is made] to pay LI per annum for his acre, whilst two or three others, who do not mine are allowed a privilege of from twenty to thirty acres of well known auriferous ground—thus keeping from bona foie miners the ground locked up, and leading them to the impression that, what is “ sauce fur the'goose, is not fit for the gander.” The little rain that has 'fallen has done a vast amount of good, and the harvest is nearly all in throughout the distiict.