LAKE COUNTY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 979, 21 January 1881, Page 2

LAKE COUNTY.

, ■* (/ROM OUR OWN COR RESPONDENT ) Amongst the new intro hictions to our midst, the outcome of the Christinas festivities ami the Races, was a wandering minstrel, delighting in the sobriquet, of “ i’iccnlo Charley/ quite an ongiiial in his way, Well educated, speaks excellent Wench and German, but qualities these accomplishments by an inordinate love for whiskey. As a matter of course, Charley plays the pic-’olo, an I plays it exceedingly welj, while he is also equally good in producing excellent music out of a common tin, or rather brass .whistle, aud he vyill often limes play two at once-a liras ami s coud in n Uou—when i.ot too tar gnu® from the off-eta of hs favorite beveiage. Charley kept the people at AHrowtowir fully amused for over a week, piping from earlyt morii uutil late into dewy eve, an.l until he had pipe! away every available stray shilling or sit pence f rom the pocket*

of b « listeners, and bad tired out the patience of such of the public and publican* as chose to " shout ” him a drink, Charley ha I a good skin-full every day—yet never became what might be'called beastly drunk, as after a certain imbibioal stage he apparently could get no further, drink whatever ho nlayi Tin-i happy state of things, however* Caitlß to an end—the public refused any more shillings* even the smallest coin in the world* ns Charley designate I a six-pence—no more people would “shout,” the ever generous public stopped the supplies, and, charm he never so sWßetiy, the minstrel Was played odt, add left to take service with a cockatoo, until his services ■wire required to gather in the haHredt. ft was very ao using to listen to the ingeiiious importunities resorted to by Charley to obtain a shilling, or the smallest coin in the world. Standing near the Library Hall one evening, and a jeing tinea nien walking no the street, he enquired who they were? The reply was that they were Irishmen. Charley immediately applied his pipe, and struck on "St Patrick’s Day in the morning,’* wlii<-h succeeded ) next appeared a small-sized, gen'h-inanly-lnokiii" man, win n bis curiosity was again awakened, but, quieted with the information that it was His Worship the Mayor of ArrowtOWn. and that be was a Welshman. The shrill notes of Chari y’s pipe at once poured forth its .melody over “Sweet Jenny Jones, but the plaintive music of the “Maid of Lamrollaii" would not fetch him. and His Worship pissel on, buttoning no his pockets. Charley then retired to'enjoy the proceeds of “St. Patrick’s Dav.” vowing that ho “ hadn’t a eprat or a hit of fat to fry it with, 1 ' and Was a “ stone broker.” The next amusing incident, of rather incidents, has been the fierce and angry paper waf. and the spilling of innocent ink over that most voraeioiis of all news paper correspondents- the gentleman who eont'il'Uti 8 weekly little nothings and nonsense to the columns of your Cromwell contemporary. Having failed to annihilate yonr poor dear old “ Own Correspondent”. the editor of the Arrow Ol'servir and the Waka'ip Mad, hi g'dbo, ha trice the ekerciso of his inventive cenius. and actna’ly imagines >. crowded open-air preaching on a Saturday night in a hotel ya-d at Arrow’owi with a real liv.3 Pres byteri m pa 1 son in: • ■ resbyteriai. c-hoir, rod all the. hj •arevs being convert ,■ and Btraightwav -va tin “ W . ‘ .ill sh re.” VAt it a-as all pare imagination; As in 'he vS-v columns of the newspaper publishing this startling religions cf-1"-brat-on the-e appears the fnj'owing week a blank denial of the whole affair, and that there was no parson, no choir* and no n-thing e’se, 1 suppose we shall next lenfn that the flight of imagination of the imaginative and truthful correspondent has earned him so far that he has invented a church and a churchyard wherein he finds him a e’f huned. and the editor of the Arrow Observer in conjunction with “Your Own ” There annears to he warm wo'k in ■JoornA'ism in LakeCoiinty, as the follow; in ".letter. taken from the Lake Wakatip Mail, and signed “ Arrow Resident, ” goes to show’ ; Sir, —How delnhted and excessivelv happv. the Arrow folks ought to be in the possession of such an estimable individual. who claims to he their monthpiece. in the p-raon of that voracious inks'ioger who weekly contributes nasty slimy

things to that “ disagreeable Wot upon journalism.” ns the Canterbury Press sd Justly designates the CrOmwcU Argus. This ea'erpillar-like en-respomlent never npnears in open daylight, or deals with a Bid-j ct upon its merits ; it is *>ll. hearsay, slime, slander, and nastiness with him ; and he is ; npnar-mt'v, onlv happy when Crawling ahout at night, poking h : s nnse into "ther peoples business, promoting Inert I jealousies, or revelling in low inin ! ed personal abuse. He iidvmati s. in his letter to th- Ceomwe'l ArgUS of the 4th inst., that the Arrow Observer is a reft 'X of the Arrow people. It is greatly to he desired that such is the ea«e, heeaftsn it is a very respectably conducted litt'a newspaner ; avhile —as the argument set forth must have its adverse side—it does one pood to find that the 'rgus, through its slimy Arrow, town correspondent, only can represent that estimable individual himself, with posdhly some few others who know little poo lof themselves or anyone else. I think myself that the opening of the Kawaran Bri-lee was a very crerlitah'e and enjoyable afTdr; and there certainly w#s no distinction of rersons ; for. out of the 400 prestnt, at least 250 must have sat down to the table wi'h the “snobs,” as “Mr Slimy"’ desires to call th-m. Any W-11-condnete l mi er, farmer, nr laborer was equally wel-C-voe. and di I sit down and was served With fowl, turkey, or ham. either by the C e.ntv Chairman, who presided, nr by Dr Douglas, ■ who officiated an C r otf pier; whi’e all had their share of drinkables. As jt must have been neeess-oy for the County Council to issue special invitations to p'-r----sens at a dis'ance to come and take nart in thep nceedinps. they could do nmhinp better than send them cards of invitation, and which appears to ' e done to the extent r>f fifty. In the absence of receiving one. the slimy corespondent of the Ciomwell Arptts vents his sp'een first noon respectaMe Q leenstown resi lenls,- and then Upon the editor of Iho Arrow Observer, whose shoes he is not wor'hy to brush. The Arens will never be the mouthpiece of the Arrow ; while, at Cromwell i‘self, it. onlv rep’ esen's one s ebon of the community ; as T find the On ns* an 'Times equally as generally read U"d circulated, aftd is considered, in addition, more truthful. A perusal of the columns of the Cromwell Argus quickly discloses its Weakness as a representative journal. It offers no argument w’hen dealing with others holding opposite opinions, but indulges in low person, alities and virtuperation ; while it disgraces i‘s co’umne by giving insertion to slanderous enmmnnieations from surround ing districts that it does not represent, and uhieh enmmnnieations IfoT'espeetable newspaper would publish. The editor of the Arrow Observer has no cause to be alarmed at 'he unmerited abuse heapol upon him by the Arrowtown correspondent of the Cromwell A runs In the eves or eTi motion of the community here, he is no “dummy” as that correspondent would desire to lead people in and outside this district fo believe. What 'he editor writes is respectable, and hears the imnr-ss of common sense } rmr doeshsdenart fromrhe rules of j nirea'ium hy nernYittfug his correspondents to indulge in personalities, ejtst reflections upon private persons, or vent their spleen tfnon the conduct or editors of other journals He may therefore congratulate himself and his readers that, the ■Observer is not a literary rfnngheA'jV, like his contemporary the Cromwell Argus, whose unsavory odours have penetrated so far that the Canterbury I'rfiSs reluctantly recognises it as “a disagreeable blot," •'« . " " |n mining matters there Is Tint little to report. The Tipperary and Homeward Bnind .are busy crushing andf preparing m - -rn cakes. The reef in the firmer Injika wveh better { it is ten *ect thick and well with it least five feet of good solid Quarts on the fopr avail, which shows cold 1 There Is also pool stone-on ■' ptkhqniringwall .Tliis is at the face of the funnel GOOft in, and 300 ft- in dei th ■ tnnMmxfco,, | V