MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3685, 14 December 1874, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

ARROW. {From our own Correspondent) December 9. Several flags were exhibited and the schoolchildren had a half-holiday in recognition of the great astronomical event of the t. ausit of Venus, and smoked glass has been in general demand. The day has been cloudy, occasionally threatening rain. A newspaper war has been raging between the ‘ Mail ’ at Queenstown and the ‘Observer’ here, in reference to Feehv’s case. This was a case of confirmed intemnerance, and Mr Warden Stratford adjudged three months’ iniorisonment in Dunedin. After sentence, Dr Douglas visited Feehlv, and, without giving any notice to Mr tratford, obtained an order from the police authorities in Dunedin for the prisoner’s removal to the hospital at. Frankton, and it is of this action that the ‘ Observer’ complains. The ‘ Mail ’ takes the doctor’s part, and does not. seem inclined to do justice to Mr Stratford, who was simply doing Ills duty in awarding the sentence, and who knew nothing about the removal until it was practically effected; while the manner in which it was done by the doctor was irregular and discourteous in the extreme to the Warden. Some telegrams giving a one-sided version of the affair have also been forwarded to Dunedin from Queenstown, so the happy concord and union of the two sections of the district which was to result from Mr Mauders’s election is not likely to be brought nearer by this unwise and cxparte conduct on the Queenstown side. I may further state that there is no doubt but that Feebly was very unwell, and had the doctor represented the fact to the Warden, that officer would, without doubt, have applied for a Judge’s order and had Feebly removed to the hospital, and thus have prevented much unnecessary bitter feeling.—The Arrow United and the _ Universal Companies are jointly engaged in opening up a tail race belonging to the latter company, which will give the United an immense advantage towards draining their claim, and I hope to see some real progress made this summer with this enterprise. Labor is in good demand, but. business -s ull. —In the matter of Christmas Sports there is likely to be opposition to the orthodox games usually organised, as the Good Templars are issuing a programme of their own and the hotelkeepers another.—The ‘ Daily Times ’ has a paragraph on the 7th. speaking of Mr Warden Stratford as having acted with severity in fining a party at Whitechapel Flat Lls in lieu of forfeiture for not having their pegs properly maintamed. The claim is valued by the party at L 450, and the amount of the fine is small compared with the value of the property imperilled by neglect, especially when Ll2 of it represented the expenses of th j applicants for declaration of forforfeiture.—l? Rom the Shotover I learn that good finds of gold continue to be made in the neighborhood of the Sandhills.andthe Hibernian river claim holders are erecting another large wheel for the better working of the deeper portions of their ground. The Arrow district is healthy, although complaints of colds are frequent just nmy. The hospital has had a large number of patients, principally accidents, and the doctor has had his energies heavily taxed, but has been very successful in dealing with the cases.