LAKE COUNTY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 980, 28 January 1881, Page 3

LAKE COUNTY.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ) Harvesting operations have been commenced on the flat country between the foot of Lake Wakatip and the Arrow lliver. The wheat crops certainly never looked better, and if the farmers never r«j need before they should tin 1 their hearts rejoice ♦bis time. In a largo number nf cases the ; el I should he at least between 40 an I bushels to the acre. Labor pioiuisos to I- pretty plentiful, and, tWo pounds per week and found—wet or dry weather—is the late that farmers are engaging their hsnU at. There will he a verd reapers and hinders at work this season where the localities arp suitable, but, as a rule theto is to very great breadth of level land on one block to b i operate 1 u ion The shearing is getting well inch nveP and has been successful in a nnirtb f of Cises about the neighborhood of Luke Wakatip theie is a enn-i lerable falling off in the wool crop owing to the rabbit pest. The Commis sinners have appointed All Inspector who enters upon his dtttieS forthwith—a Mr Hn Idlestnne, a gent'em-in well known in the Wauakft Oistr'C’-, ftnd appireutly we.l qua'iflol for the office. Yortr Cromwell contemporary apnears still to deal in literary offvl from this place, and we are disgraced by ihe low vulgar emraenations of its resident correspondent here, whose effusions most Certainly do not renresent public opinion at the Arrow or Qneeng Cwn in any one respect. So f&r as the.Cromwell newspaper itself is onmjenie I the suopoft which it used to receive from this district hass iriimsljf fallen off of late, and but few copies are ftoW S en. The person who represents it appears to nse its columns as tlie means tor peisOnal abas-, and for mid throwing in part fiular, especially at people who hold different opinims to himself. To fact, it is quite a common thing to hear from pc iple who de dine to be assnei a e 1 wi’-h this scurrilous 'in Hindus', *‘th the widhaVeth m in the Cromwell Argus 1 ' When a newspaper proprietor allows his broadsheet tube use I fu- such base purposes, whatever may appear in its 'C-ilnmns can hj ivc hut little in •fliience, while the newspaper itself is only treated with contempt by the thinking portion of the jiOhlic. A scurrilous newspaper is adis.-raco to a civilized community It should he the business of a orop -rly conduct'd journal to elevate its realers to a higher standard of ‘bnhght. but instead of being an educator, the Cromwell Argus degrades its rea-’ers to the level of the lo vest of the low class publications, which onlvcan find existence in such large cities as New York and London, and I have no hesitation in saying that the popular v rdiet is that the Cromwell Argus is a disgrace to our pretest civilizithm, arid a foul ’“disgrace-able blot" wherever it reaches. A rather amusi-g and interesting case was hoard at the R M Court, Arrowtown cn Tuesday last, ft Was that of the police against a well-known ston keeper, and a late Mayor of the Borough. It appears that Se"Scant Brown, suspecting that wine and snirit merchants did*'business wholesale upon bottle licenses, had resolved to make an example of somebody. The plan pursued appears to have ben to apply to the Licensing B mch for both a bottle and a wholesale license, but im'y to take otft the former, leaving the latter in abeyance until something turned up demanding its necessity. In this case something .did turn lip. as up >n the 8t i J nil ary 1 ist the wily S rgeant found that two gallons of sherry wiue had been sold to an hj ■ tel keeper ; he the Sergeant saw the wine, and took a sample to prove his case, henoe the summons. In evi lenoe it was prove I that the police Tilled upon the defendant in July last and •asked (or Ids wholesale license, and was informed by h'ra that it was not worth his while taking one out. After the off -i.ee on the Sth January the police called upon the Town Clerk with the same bbj -ct an I wore replied to in the negative. At the hearing of the case, a license bearing date Ist Jolv. 1880 was produced, and Mr Town Clerk gave e«i fence lo the effect tha% upon receiving the Certificite from the Licensing Bench, he had m a le out the License on the date inserted—he hal not rcre-vd I the money, but he’d himself personally responsible for pavm mt, yet di I not, enter the amount in the Corporation books., After the - (fence he called upon the defendant who paid him the irt-mev an I hja t gave him the license. Mr Finn, for defen laut, after Various pleas, that it was bn mssible to i-dt-ntif) slurry wine, urged that the licence was a valid one, anl it did not matter When it was issued so long as the Licensing Bench had given the necessiry Certificate. Mr Tnrton urged that the License wia fraudulently issued aid was invalid, an I in this view the Ben- hj c ncurr -d— inflicting a fine of LlO, an-l 1,4 cos s Th : Bench cordtaen’elupnn Licenses being issnel by the Borough Council upon detached sheets of jiani-r without a cmuiterpari. Things in the mining world are begin ning to lo -k brisk again, Macetown has just put on ano'her spurt, and it is quite possible that anme highly satisfactory results will yet be reads-d before the season closes. I visited the Tipnerary mine the o’hcr day, and the work appears .to he going on vigorously. The low level tunnel is now in over 4011 feet, (by a tvppgraphi: Cal error yon ms lo it 600 feet htsr, Week) and the reef is decidedly improving. It is (ul'y ten le-'t wile, and shows more col l than it has done for some time past. It is also more s did in character, and the country is h-ss disturbed The battery is in very good order, and is kent co -stoutly at work. As the sto te now thev arc working at in the lower level must be now fully 3-’>> feet below the outornn on the surface. 1 think there should be nodoubt upon the perm money of the mine; nf course ‘hey tmnot bp.alwftvsnnnn a good rich nateh ’nf gold, but one is sure to conse in before very long.

The Homeward B >uml started crushing a forhiijht.sine*, hut Were U'laHle to keep constancy going as a good deal of ground required to l>o filled up. and it was impos iiide to keep up the require 1 supply of quartz to the battery as at, present, thnre is only one “ pass ” communicating bet we-n the intermediate level and the surface, where the stuff for filling in must he ohtaine I from The battery is in very good working order, and the Bet lan machine for treating the blanketings Will Conn bo in position an I ready for opera*i-ms. The engineer who hm the completion of this work although working by contract, has not made such rapid progress as anticipated, owing to various an 1 nr.forseen causes oce isioing delay The Company are procuring jt now steel wire rope, the one at present in use, being pretty well worn- nut, has broken several times of late, causing damate to the trucks anfl buildings at the Battery,- hut not, of a serious nature The prqsnects are about the same as tho last crushing—it only wants plenty of stone put through the mill to secure a salistaotorv result.-; t Thi\,o,lail|tnpe »'q still stealilv crushing, ,tU 1 tips i-y-'r lookg as wqll as ever, qnd another good call's 1 should consider as a Ce-Hi ,ty. ", .The ttafUns i’wnmeoeed pattingj'j a low, lov.i'l tunuol, an! now tjiiscom jany may 1 ffdTuve Been atynild' afresh, thing* should ijo once again .Tip? is undoubtedly a very good mine and some day will turn oat a

1 paying investment. The Garibaldi are e tiling a meeting! so as to elect directors and start work. The Premier is in a state of stain quo, the contractors having giving up their job of sinking the shaft to catch the Gladstone lode. This company had better have kept on ns they wore and sunk their shaft by day labor, and they might perhaps have cut the reef eie this. The liA ly Fliyre are driving with very gdad pfaspects and so is the Detiance company—both of these mines are on the riomuward Bound lino ol lode, although the UcHance appears to be a little olf it It is evi lently the same qudity of stone-, the reef being possibly divided. The Cale lonian are putting irt ft tunnel at a lower level, so as to cut the reef 3l)oft In depth from the surface, ns the lisle in the upper tunnel is well define!, and having perfect Walls, although it is mullochy. in character, there is every chance of meeting with solid quartz in the present level. Some enterprising partl-ja have started to cu- timber in the Matatapu hush, so there is some hope that this in lispensable adjunct to mining enterprise will ere long he procurable at a more moderate cost. The Maryborough are luliy const noting their high level shoot and paddock, but it is very questionable if they can get their tramways perfected in time for crushing any stone th s seas m—unless it proves an extraordinary mild one. At the Shotover, the Gallant Tipperary well, another trial 'crashing will be made skirtly. South <ef° an t Go.y, at Skipper’s. are getl ing out very fair intone, but on-y in limits Iqn incities. .The Invincible, at the iiealof thi Lake are putting in a lower level tunnel, an t a o negotiating for machinery.Some parties have applied for a cancellation of the old Shotover Terrace Company's Lcasesat Pleasant Greek Terrace- Nothing has been done here for Hvrf years past, and it is a pity to see this ground lying idle.