MARTIN'S BAY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1586, 4 September 1873, Page 3

MARTIN'S BAY.

, A miner from Martin's Bay named Morrison arrived tin Queenstown last week. He is at work at Big Bay, and reports that there are only six men employed there, who are making small -wages. Water is scarce, and the ground difficult to Bliiice, owingto want of fall. They

■have' sufficient provisions for present ' wants, but feel the necessity of more frequent arid regular communication-^the last visit from the outside world being in April last. The settlers at Jamestown are breaking, up ground for the growth of wheat and other crops, and those engaged in mining are also taking up land f or-agri-culture. Morrison came by the Lake Harris route, but is forced to take the Greenstone track for his return, there being four feet of snow" on the saddle by ' way of Lake Harris/ He speaks hopefully

of the . prospects of the settlement. A Martin's Bay settler writes : "It was not

until , April s}o that the Nancy came back to Martin's Bay and came in over, the bar before daylight, being piloted in and out by Williamson, it being dark both times ; so it does not. seem as if the bar was such an extraordinarily dangerous place as reported. But what was most astonishing to us all was that she had only about

. 32cwt. or 34cwt. of flour on boaid for sale, [^ and two or tiiree bags of sugar. We number about thirty people, and with 1,4001bs of flour divided amongst us for six months, would have been worse than ". we were last winter. We think; when the Government pays a vessel to take provisions to a place like this, it is only proper that they should be looked after, and bring something like a sufficient supply, ■ instead of only bringing about five weeks'

provisions."