ARROWTOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 795, 13 July 1877, Page 3

ARROWTOWN.

(prom our correspondent.) Tho railway agitation has at last reached this far, and on Saturday evening last there was a crowded meeting held in tho Library Hajl to urge the matter of a railway from Kingston ;to Cromwell or Clyde. The Mayor occupied the chair. The speakers were pretty numerous, and various were the ideas propounded, but the chief difficulty appeared to be to devise a scheme as to where the money was to come from. Tho meeting was unanimously of opinion that it was high time to connect the interior districts with tho lines communicating with the seaboard, commencing at Kingston this end, and going as far as Clyde or Cromwell, leaving the lines down your way to take a direction that seems best to those most interested. Invercargill has a great many supporters in this district, especially at Queenstown, which will assist materially to forwarding the work in this quarter. The routes from Dunstan to Oamaru, Strath Taieri, Lawrence, or Waipahee occupy but little attention so long as one is adopted, although I think the Strath Taieri is the favorite as being most direct. The matter of petitioning tho Government and communicating with other bodies has been left in the hands cf tho Mayor and Council. The Miners’ Association held their annual meeting on Saturday last, when a new set of officers and a committee were elected. The doings of this body appear to have been pretty satisfactory, and nothing can bo said against them for not being zealous in the discharge of their duties. The land on the Crown Terrace appears to bo tho principal bug-bear, and now that an entrance clause for mining discoveries can be inserted in a lease there is no opposition to the land being occupied. It is said that there has been some very serious mis-reprosentations made to Mr Warden Simpson when doing duty here in tho matter of boundaries, purposely intended to mislead that officer. Muddy Creek, on the south side of Harry Cook’s paddock (the old half-way shanty on tho Gentle Annie track) has been shifted to the Swifthum, or Seven-mile—where tho latter has been shifted to is unknown, perhaps blotted out of existence altogether. When a well known creek shifts three miles and a half in a . northerly direction, it becomes a fact worth recording, and deserves mention. Captain Barry, after a short stay among his friends, has taken his departure on a lecturing tour down country ; also, for the purpose of securing subscribers to his book, his list boasting already upwards of 3000 names. For enterprise and perseverance alone Captain Barry deserves every support.