The Lake Wakatip Mail. Queenstown, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1865.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 278, 27 December 1865, Page 2

The Lake Wakatip Mail. Queenstown, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1865.

We are informed that Mr Faick, the late postmaster, has selected the opportunity presented to him of accepting the post-office for Queenstown. Under this arrangement Mr Falck will act in a private capacity, and the present office is to be sold. Mr Fraee was a tenderer. The bond the inhabitants drew up amongst themselves was therefore just worth the paper it was written upon, but they can, of course, use their own powers. Two parties having shown themselves as being willing to take the post-office, it could hardly be expected that the General Government would not carry out its paltry views. The next we shall hear is that probably the telegraph will not be extended to Queenstown upon the grounds of the absence of a postoffice. As instructions have been sent to sell the post-office building, we consider that at least a job should not be made of the sale. The public have contributed the taxes that built it. It cost several hundred pounds. To hawk about privately a valuable building, without offering it to public tender or auction, is a measure open to suspicion and must | entail a loss upon the community. Two hundred pounds is grudgingly granted to the Skipper's community for making roads—a district yielding almost the same amount of revenue per week—but £6OO, the cost we

hear of this office and freehold, is to be sold in a manner no one is either responsible for, or in a way no one can describe. The building is a really good and valuable one and would be useful as a land-office, municipal chambers, telegraph-office, &c, but we expect to see it almost given away. What are the Town Committee about? Why do they not put .into the General Government a just and equitable claim ?