HAMILTON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 22, 2 July 1869, Page 3

HAMILTON.

(From our own Correspondent.)

>. I concluded my last letter with a ■promise to refer to tlie postal arrangements, owing to your Hyde correspondent wishing a return to the old route, viz., Kyeburn to Hamiltons, via Hyde.' While we fully sympathise with the in their, grievances, we can~not help being rather selfish; and it. so happens that the present arrangements suit this district —always excepting a jjbi-weekly mail, which would suit better ; and unless we can get that we are perfectly content for the present. However, there is one objection to the - old route which ought to be conclusive, viz., that a post office being established al Hogburn Creek, or Amies', in a direct line from this to Naseby, I beReve it is in contemplation to run the _iails there instead of to the Kytburn thereby placing us in direct bi-weekly with Naseby and the offices. I have had an interview with our Postmaster on the -subject, who assures me that, with the concurrence of our mail carriers, it > could easily be done. Of course the « powers that be " must be consulted r ■ '.

first; but the Chief Postmaster sol readily falls in with any suggestion for | the benefit of the public, that we do not anticipate any difficulty. While on this subject I have much pleasure in stating that our esteemed mailman, Constable Pinnigan, is a most obliging and punctual officer ; and I can say the same of the Postmaster, for, though we seldom see him, the duties of his office are ably, and I believe I am justified in saying, better transacted by his assistant, Mr Penwick, who gives almost universal satisfaction; a token of merit that seldom falls to the lot of any Grovernment official.

In my remarks regarding the different mining companies here, I quite inadvertently omitted the United, - and by way of apology, will now devote a whole chapter to it. The United Water Eace was the property of a mining company, registered, but has lately changed hands, being now owned by Messrs. Bremner Bros., and is the best race here, or, in fact, in. the district, having a better and more constant supply than any other within my knowledge. There being no purchasers for water, the spirited owners are doing their utmost to make the specu_ation a success. Por this purpose they have extended the race to ground eastward of the township, and in one gully have run off a large paddock, and are now washing up with, I believe, payable prospects. They have taken up ground farther down the same gully, and have cut a tail race to work the same, at a considerable expense, from a place known, as the Palls ; the difficulties attending which deterred. several parties from working the ground before. Should the outlying gullies commanded by same prove payable, they have many years work before them. They have obtained - a grant for a dam already formed by the old workings on the hill, which in point of size far exceeds any dam 1 have heard of on the diggings, being more like a reservoir for a large town than -a dam in connection with any mining speculation. Very little labor is attached to it, only consisting of running out the loose tailings, &c, which they have men now-employed at, and which they anticipate will pay for labor. When they have the %dam finished I believe it is their intention to work only by day, a great desideratum in mining, especially in this case where the owners have to employ men, which is their only drawback, for I have my doubts of hired labor paying, especially oil Hamiltons. One thing is certain, that it ruined the previous owners. I wish the present ones better luck. The weather during the first part of the week was very stormy, with hard frosts at night, the consequence .of which was an almost total stoppage of work. It is now milder, and all is activity again. .

Mr. Warden Robinson held a Court here on Tuesday ; the only two cases of importance being Rodas and Co. v. Morrin and Co., of the Sowburn, wherein Morrin objected to Rodas' application for some ground held by Morrin. A verdict was given for the defendant Morrin, with costs. In the other case, the police summoned Mr Samuel Harman, of Linburn, for being withont a business license.' It being clearly proved that he had received notice and sufficient time, was fined £5 and 30s. costs, having also to take out a license.