ARROWTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 751, 8 September 1876, Page 3

ARROWTOWN.

(from ouk own CORRESPONDENT.) There has been very little to write about of late, the severe winter having brought everything to a 'stand-still for nearly three months past, while the weather at present is as bad as it possibly can he. Tbe fall of snow these last few days has been very heavy upon the ranges, but of course it cannot last long, the increasing strength of the sun’s rays will very soon dissipate it. At Macetown there has been nothing at all doing, but I hope that ere another fort, •n'ght things 'will be bright again. There will be a good deal of damage to repair from the effects of the winter. It is said that the Government have decided to expend LSOO upon making .a Toad suitable for packing : and sleighing machinery up the bed of the Twelve-Mile Creek. It is time they did something for the reefs, as the mining companies decline to incu r any more expenditure upon roads, having done too \ much for their pockets already, while, had the Government have seconded the efforts of these parties last smuttier it would have put the ’place at least six months ahead. Until this road up Twelve-Mile Cieek is made material progress will be only of small account. ■ I have not heard anything (about the new newspaper lately, or the Wakittip Herald as it is to be called. Some say the project has died a natural death, others that the whole affair was never anything more than a myth. Journalism in the Wakatip district occupies, however, a most anomalous , position, Arrowtown and Queenstown respectively possesses its own dear little “rag” or “organ," while each of these precious publications is the property of one individual. The business of these newspapers—or, more' Correctly speaking, “pothouse oracles”—is to revile each other, more especially the towns and interests they are supposed to represent, and the conclusion arrived at, as shown by their columns, must, to every impartial reader, appear that what one professes to advocate the other does its best to negative the assertion. No man in this world cau blow hat and cold at the same time, and it is a pity to see the interests of a line district like this suffer through the ill-directed efforts of those professing to be its friends. In matters political there is also exceeding dullness ; the agitation re the counties boundary has died a away. It appears that hero, like other places, the agitation was framed with the view to make Arrowtown the metropolis of tho county, and when it was found that the town was hot likely to' be the focus of expenditure for sardines and whisky the boundaries became a matter of no consideration at all. I fancy that one county for the province, or a board of Land and Works, will bo tho moat acceptable, prove thoroughly effective as an administrativebody, and call forth leas local jealousies. Of the doings of Mr Henry Manders, I W.H,E.. but little is said, and Ido not hear that ho is considered as a traitor to tho v*use. Mr Manders in his election speeches

said' that ho would bo a blind follower of Kir George’’’Grey and' Mr Macandrew, and thto, exactly the case, os Mr Mandera has never seen them throughout' the whole of the session j still he did not throw us over, the Provincial Council having so neglected the district he declared unconditionally for the General Government, and in so doing met the wishes of the major portion of his constituents. Mr Madder's has proved himself a tolerably good representative, and is a considerable improvement on Mr Pyke, who throw us over in the most unceremonious manner ; in fact, from the day we elected him we, never heard anything more about him or his pretensions. It was generally considered that V. P. was merely the nominee of Mr Hallenstein, who did us once the ihonor to nominally become our 'representative.