THE ARROW

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 13, 13 June 1863, Page 5

THE ARROW

(fbom our own correspondent.) June I'2, 1863. Frost has again set in sharply, and is now thoroughly appreciated as the perfection of winter weather, after the desolating storm of Monday Everything remains much as the fury of the wind left it; few of the sufferers have as yet commenced repairing damages—the chance of a repetition of the disaster naturally makes men shy of expending capital in calico. The most complete ruin is the Post Office Hotel, wh eh was literally torn out of the ground, and lies on its site a mass of rags and splinters. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Fawcett, who has lost the whole of his stock and furniture, and who had been fast creating a good business by the quietness and regularity of his house. The large room at the Provincial is unroofed, and marly destroyed; theWesleyans had paid£lodeposit on the purchase-money, and it will now be a question whether that community or Mr. Brown stood in the position of owner at the time of the gale. The actual amount of damage done in the township may perhaps he estimated under £1,200; but the inconvenience and loss of business are very serious matters to many. The Government has completed their survey long ago, and laid out the place into allotments; the wonder is why they do not offer these for sale, and enable storekeepers and others to put up substantial buildings on their own land, which it would be well worth their while to do, but which they very wisely, in most cases, object to under the present uncertain tenure. The news from up the Arrow River is much what one might expect; the works in the stream are all washed away again, and the labor expended since the previous flood rendered nugatory. It is very disheartening to the miners, who hope against hope, that this is the last vagary of the climate, and that winter will now set in sharp and in earnest.

On the flat several new claims hare been opened and many are being worked with fair success. From one paddock four ozs. were washed on Satui day out of three loads, and this O" the false bottom, with twelve feet sinki' g. A claim at the back of Mr. Melody's, given >ip by one party, is being successfully worked by new hands, and is yielding payable gold. I have been informed also that a share

of a claim not far from the prospectors' was sold on Wednesday for £ 10. The diggings at the top of the Flat along Bush Creek, are not turning out satisfactorily. Some holes have been sunk to 30 fert without bottoming, and the general feeling is that gold will not be found in payable quantities. I have seen some fine specimens of rough gold obtained near Bracken's Gully, by three several prospecting parties. Some of the nuggets were three and four ozs., and of very quaint shapes. I could not of course ascertain the exact locality, but I conjecture, from remarks that were dropped accidentally, that it is well up the mountains and in the regions of, at this time of the year, perpetual frost.

The premises of Mr. Max Mendershausen were burglariously entered on Monday night last. The thieves slit the calico and endeavored to secure some valuable cases containing tobacco, &c. They were, however, alarmed by the owner moving in his inner room, and departed with two or three clay pipes, the only available plunder. A new butcher is to open out here on Friday, in a large shop in the main street. He kills his own meat, and has a good stock of cattle on hand. This is one step in the right direction towards freeing the community from the tyranny of squatting monopolizers; and every one must wish success to this braver of the calf-inquisitors.

ARROW POLICE COURT. (Before Richmond Beetham, Esq., R.M.) June 8, 1863. GREAT CAT CASE. Mr. Butler of the Prince of Wales Hotel, was charged, on the information of Mr. Richmond of the New Orleans Hotel, with feloniously abstracting a Tom Cat. The Prosecutor, sworn, said —I had a cat for six weeks. I brought it from Weaiherstone's; it was grey, with white feet and a white tip to its tail. In the middle of March it was missing On Friday last I saw the lost one in the street and took it home. On Sunday Mrs. Butler came to my hotel, and seeing the cat, claimed it as hers, stating that she had bought it from a night watchman; ten minutes after the accused came in with another party. One of them said the cat was theirs; and one or other of them broke the string by which the cat was tied and took him away. I warned Mr. Butler not to take the animal away, and that if he persisted in taking him I should certainly prosecute him. He answered that he would take him. I got a constable and went to Butler's store, where I found the cat. I gave Butler in charge.

By the Defendant.—The cat was a Tom-cat. I saw you or your mate abstract him. The eat seemed stouter and more filled out than when I lost him, but tae marks were the same. I swear that you or your mate broke the string that c nfined the cat in my hotel. William Bailey, miner, said—When dining at Richmond'B yesterday, I saw a cat tied up close by my seat. Two men entered, one of whom was the accused. The other man said " Thin cat belongs to youhe replied " It does —it is my cat " Immediately after, I heard a snap as of a string. I saw the accused leaving, the m with him having the cat in his arms. A. T. Lockhart, Esq., manager of the Union Bank, said—l was living at Richmond's when he brought a cat from I used to see it daily; the cat produced is the same cat I recollect its being lost. His Worship ordered the cat to be given up.