QUEENSTOWN,

Dunstan Times, Issue 739, 16 June 1876, Page 2

QUEENSTOWN,

(from our correspondent.)

I am very clad to find the Mayor and Council of this Municipality have at last made up their minds to live upon amicable terms with our worthy representative in Parliament, Mr Henry Manders. It took a long time for his Worship to do this, his defeat as one of the chief supporters of Mr Bradshaw has hung heavy upon him, but like a good many of his betters he has been compelled to “ eat the leek ” at last, and now we have T. G. Betts, Esq., Mayor of Queenstown, and Henry Manders, Esq., M H.R., living lovingly together. On Tuesday last Mr Manders met the Mayor and Council in solemn conclave assembled, and there discussed, in most friendly terms, the wants and requirements of the town and district, for like a great many other municipal bodies, that of Queenstown likes to take the whole of the Wakatip under its wing, and would include the Arrow also only it dare not make the attempt. The necessity of tirging on the completion of the railway to Kingston was of course one of the primary matters brought forw.rd, and this work Wants pushing on badly, for as things are at present, either for goods or passenger traffic we are as 'ar off speedy intercourse with Dunedin and Invercargill as ever. The The building of a gaol was the next most important subject, the Mayor and Council condemning in tolo Mr Police Commissioner Weldon’s recommendation that the central Jail at Arrowtnwn was sufficient for the whole of the Wakatip district, and it was agreed upon all sides that Mr Manders must use his utmost endeavors to procure a £IOOO from the General Government with which to build a house of sate keeping for our local villainy. As happily there arc scarcely any rogues or bad characters amongst us, and dreading the moral effects of an empty gaol, it is said that his worship has determined upon a scheme for inducing Sullivan to take up his residence upon the salubrious shores of Lake Wakatip, and this may possibly account for that desperadoes misterious disappearance from Victoria ; and it is in further contemplation to subsidise all the available roguery in this and the surrounding districts so that it may gravitate in the neighborhood of Queenstown, and so secure occupants for the intended and indispensable gaol. The county system and the making 0 { the

Wakatip into a county, with Queenstown ns its borough town, was next discussed, and Mr Manders promised to secure this provided it met the approval of his Arrow constituents. The Nugget and Cornish Beef at Upper Shotovor struck payable gold on Friday last, two hundred feet from the surface, and about the same distance west from the old workings. This is highly satisfactory, and another of the many instances where persevering labor finds its reward.