ST. BATHANS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 80, 19 August 1870, Page 3

ST. BATHANS.

'• ! 1 Aug. u, 13-70. I fcriii well Aw&rg that it is not pleaato be always on the same S Bt.rjpgbut if is' Rot fleasailt fo coma ; a distance of 3' miles through slush and'nradoii i. wiiite'r iiigh't td the i post ''office (afterwbrkiitg hard: all day) and 'told , in answer to my enquiry for letjfcer3, that " there iia no juail.''. Xttfe now jSunday night, and the mail due here yesterday evening has notiyfefr ;aifonNiil.--The whole of the up-country population is sick the mail service ; but I am not quite aware, and in common ! Witti any neighbors I would like to know, if this irregularity ia ever to have an end ; or, when the postal new. year arrives, will the;" powers that tie" take any' steps -to prevent another irregularity in .tlie future? iA. remarkable improvement has taken< place in the weather within the ,last. two or three days. * The sun shone out 1 gloriously both, yesterday and to-day ; ■ the,dark' fhict which so long' shutout his geiital and invigorating heat 1 has for thq.moment disappeared pass.each other with eyes fastened on ;the salute as if bent on consmitting suicide. The .bright sunshine of two short days has | wrought' 'W'- Magical change; friends meet nafy a ( their face*and a cheerful " good morning." on their lips." The roads are drying, fast, and if the weather continues as at present for a fl>w d^ : M6re,' trav ! elling will becohie comparatively To be sure some 'extraordinary wid!e arid deep ruts will remain t a&'ipje, thereby ensuring .a- certain to anyi light cart, either iWhed'of which info one of ;th6gCd futS. ""* ~ ~ . r .., ,-r . r..., ' '; If|t|ie wonderfijfliy'wet' season, now I hojje gone by, had .its drawbacks, it has certainly beefr'the most 'favorable |br A - ever witnessed district. HDiirmg prenous win"ters -it has npt bsen/ uncommon• for people her.e to lose seven or eight weeks from thfek; claims, i but for the present just now I may say ended, I do qijs who mcjjwj than two days') .through stress of weather, and the majority of miners has not lost evjeii. on,e. Severat parties are preparing to wash Ajp, and .eax'h. of then* expect handsome returns. -- Water-sqiiatters are in hisrh j, |*lf e> sfo tbeSfe is'inore general .'sat'-' witnessed;joiioany previous occasion in . the sluicing world iof Stlßathans. A.B.C. .bii P.vS.—Let us give-the d—l his due, Borne come in with the mail.