ARROWTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 774, 16 February 1877, Page 3

ARROWTOWN.

(FROM our own correspondent.) Instead of being in the heart of summer we appear to have almost entered into midwinter again. It is rain, rain almost every day, with snow upon the ranges, making the nights so cold that fires have become a necessity. Harvest operations ‘Urfe very much retarded, and a good deal of heavy crop has been laid by the excessive wet. It is to be hoped that we shall soon have a change or the consequences will be very disastrous. In mining matters there is not much stir as yet, the Christmas holidays having interrupted this branch of industry for a brief period. All the claims are, however, in full work again, and I have no doubt but that I shall soon have some new discoveries to record. At Macetown things are pretty brisk. The Homeward Bound are still working and will run for another fortnight ere they clean up. The All Nations Company are busy with their tramway, ‘and are also engaged erecting a new battery. The Maryborough are excavating a foundation for a machine at Sawyer’s Gully, and I believe they purpose erecting a ten head battery instead of five as originally intended, several good discoveries having beon rcade in the vicinity of the machine site. The Ladye Fayre are upon good gold, also tho Premier. Tho Main Lode Company are sinking into tho reef, and are said to have come upon good prospects. Tho Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel are on good stone, but nothing can be clone until crushing power is available. A few of the jumping fraternity have been about lately, and I hear that a sort of joint stock company, composed mostly of the grog-selling fraternity, has been started to contest claim-holders’ titles. In one notorious case the workmen in a claim when left to prospect a prospecting claim marked off a portion of their employers’ ground. The right of weekly servants to mine on their own account while in tho receipt of wages will be taxed next sitting of the Warden’s Court. It is a great pity that cases of this kind have arisen, as it will militate very considerably against the place by shaking the confidence of outside shareholders. In one of the cases to ho heard a number of Cromwell people are shareholders.

A man in Vermont plays so sweetly on thehuglo, his wife saves tho notes for Sugar. A gentleman who had a very deaf servant was advised by a friend to discharge her. “ No, no,” replied the gentleman, with much good feeling: that poor creature could never hear of another situation.”