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Evening Star, Issue 3821, 24 May 1875, Page 2

Mr Fellows, of‘Fraser’s Magazine’celebrity, is quite equalled by the ‘ Daily Times ’ Queenstown correspondent, 'who airs his nightmare fancies and insanely ridiculous calculations in the columns of that journal. He describes the men who have left his district for tho railway works as “ merely fossickers,” the Mining Associations as composed of “ political loafers,” whose working spirit is tho publican. Because only a limited population is at present occupying the Moke Creek division, he considers it an absurdity” even to survey a dray road to the place, which road he asserts would cost £130,000. The fact is, the District Engineer’s estimate for the work is (£I,BOO. This very veracious correspondent also refers to “ another impossible road, over the Crown Terrace to Cardrena,” in regard to the probable cost of which he says, “Itfwould not be too much to say that £600,000 would not make a dray road from Arthur’s Point to Moke Creek, and from Arrowtown to Cardrona, over the Crown Range.” The engineers estimate for the lastnamed work, which is of great importance, as connecting the"Wakatip and Wanaka districts, is £2,000. The * Daily Times * cannot be congratulated upon. its choice of a correspondent, nor can the district feel flattered by such mischievous misstatements.