Original Correspondence.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 1, 2 May 1863, Page 6

Original Correspondence.

! THE SHOTOVER ROAD. I To the Editor of the Lake Wakatif Mail. | SIR,—-I hail with satisfaction thecstabli hment of a medium in this district thronuh which we can make our necessities known; awl 1 tnke this, the first opp >r<unity, of a-kin»the ' power.* that he," through your columns, if there is any likelihood of the road to the Sh<tover oeing looktd to be fore the winter ? I arn a packer, and though I am pretty well used to rough traveling, still I must say I like a g>od road—or r.t all events a passable track ; and I have a suffi- | c ient eye to the safe'y of my own neck and my horse's, and have no desire to jeopardize either. | I am, &c., Tuesday, April 28. A Packer. i [lt will he sen by our corre p n'Jent that a has been hiltl, at which iln* question «f the Shotover road was di cartel. We agne with him in bis remarks, an f l think thv ii'e of a i. packer" must be about a« t nvia' le a- that of his horse, any number cf which can be wen daily scrambling through the mire and over the hills that lay between Qjeenstown and the Shotover. What a noble field lies open now to the colonial Sterne for a page or two of 41 s ntira ni talibus lachrymw loarem,'' on the subject J dla the "*l)ead .-*ss" of the original Yorick. | We recommend the subject to the attention of : our readers.—Ed. JA]