THE ARROW.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 82, 10 February 1864, Page 6

THE ARROW.

(from our own correspondent.) February 9th. " At the weekly meeting of the Arrow Township Committee—present: Mr. R. Ecclesfield (in the chair), Edwd. Ings, hon. sec, and Messrs. Richmond, Patterson, Garforth, Rout, and Spensley, the following resolutions were nassed i~— That the Committee deem it expedient to adopt the form of memorials to the Governor of New Zealand and the Governors of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, on the question of separation, at present in course of signature by the people of Otago; and that the Secretary be instructed to make copies of same for signature at Twelve-Mile Diggings, Bracken's Gully, and on the Arrow Township and River Diggings, and that said Committee use their best endeavors to obtain signatures to the same. That Messrs. Douglas, Patterson, Ecclesfield, and Rout act as a sub-committee to wait on the storekeepers and miners of the Arrow to procure their signatures to the memorials. It was also decided that a public meeting of those interested in the establishment of a school on this township shall be called to take into consideration the best means of forwarding that object. Some little interest is taken at present in the operations of several parties engaged in work on the long-neglected Arrow Township flat. The men in question confine their attention to working a false bottom, found at ten or fifteen feet below the surface, from which they obtain, by sluicing, fair average wages. In one or two instances the ground pays remarkably well, a claim adjoining that of the Hit-or-Miss company having yielded £lO per man last week. The Hit-or-Miss company and Hogan's party, and the holders of adjoining claims intend erecting at once a powerful waterwheel, to enable them to again give the flat a fair trial and, if possible, reach the bottom. The success of their venture will materially improve the prospects of the Arrow township, and give employment to many who even now, at the height of the mining season, complain that there is little or nothing to do. At the Cardrona the population is steadily increasing, there now being about 200 men 1 on Butcher's Flat, although nothing further has been discovered, sufficient to warrant a rush to that locality. One small lead of gold has been struck, and there is reason to sup-

pose that it branches off in two or three directions through the flat; but that supposition has yet to be verified, and probably at the expense of considerable labor. The gold at present found is obtained from off a false bottom of red gravel, at a depth varying from five to fifteen feet. Mining affairs above the Falls, on the Arrow River, are progressing favorably, the various claiinholders having got through a considerable amount of work of late; and the problem will now soon be solved as to whether the locality will return any remuneration for the labor already expended on it or not. The Perseverance Company have sunk their first paddock to the depth of fifteen feet, and expect to reach the bottom within another five feet: if they succeed in doing so, a decided impetus will be given to further mining speculations in that direction, as their claim, being on the nearest available beach above the Falls, all workings higher up the river will in all probability prove shallower, and therefore be more .easily worked. Much of the available ground is already occupied, and many parties only await the issue of the Perseverance Company's trial paddock to take up claims also. This company christened their wheel a few days ago,naming it "Mademoiselle Clemence Isore," and celebrated the occasion as a fete day, a considerable number of their friends and neighbors on the river rolling up to join in the jollification.