ARROWTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 738, 9 June 1876, Page 3

ARROWTOWN.

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The weather excepting the last three days, has been very severe, and we keenly felt the visitation of severe frost, which came so suddenly upon us. The chief topic of conversation amongst Arrowtown citizens is the new newspaper, the “Wakatip Times,” I believe it is to be called, and which people are subscribing to most liberally. For more than tour years past the Arrow has been suffering under most gross misrepresentations in the matter of its public newspaper, but people bore it patiently until at last things became so bad that even then common sense was insulted, while the columns of the Arrow Observer bristled with reading matter, the composition of which was a disgrace to any school boy of ten years of age. The Wakatip Mail—the Queenstown oracle—was very little better. Things which took place there, under the very nose of the proprietor of the Mail, were not recorded oftentimes for a fortnight afterwards, while the town and district were scarcely represented at all; in fact, had the Wakatip district been situate somewhere in Kamachatkajit could scarcely have been less heard about, and we have only to thank the, correspondents of outside papers for letting people know that we were still alive. I learn, in fact the imprint of the Queenstown and Arrowtown newspapers assert it that tjiese two precious journals both belong to one proprietor, and -when this is the case, what desire could he have in conducting them but to make money. Economy was, of course, the order of the day, the services of editors and reporters were dispensed with, and all the literary matter which appeared may be said to have been picked up in the street. Such is the way people have beea treated here, and now, in Self-defence, they are about to bring out a new sheet of their own, and the Wakatip Mail and Arrow Observer consigned to their proper resting places. The new journal is to be larger Jthon the usual run of upcountry newspapers, the plant will be an entirely new one, and its literary department will be under most able management. Support from all sides is coming in freely, even Queenstown peaple are subscribing, andl ike their Arrowtown brethren are determined to put down the common enemy. The mines at Macetown are looking extremely well; in fact, the more they are worked the better they look. We have had a number of visitors lately, and numerous investments have been made, and without any to do about it. Shares are going off freely. There is very little to doubt about it that nextj’spring the .Arrow will be the chief centre of mining attraction in Otago.