LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 246, 21 November 1873, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

..... (From our own correspondent.) A splendid-spring. for growth seems to be the'universal verdict in this district, from all who are at all interested in that primeval pursuit, cultivation. As a rule, crojjs look well. The roads are improving, having in manyinstances attained the consistency of putty. There is a great want felt for a i*o;*d connecting the Wakatip with the Wariaka district, so I trust,the " powers that be " will some day make one. , t In mining there is no notorious change, there being nothing to report but the different stages of progress attained by the companies which have been already started. I ara sorry, to have to say that mining does not seem to find much favor iirthe eyes of - any 'Capitalists. hethsr- 'this is a 1 wholesome sign is more than I can say; but it does not speak well for the future of this country ; Another hieroglyphic was engrossed upon the historic tablet of the Arrow, yesterday* in the laying of the foundation stone of a new .Eoman Catholic 11 chapel by the Reverend Bishop Moran. - The weather was all that could be desired, and the attendance-un-usually large. The. building i sa credit to all concerned. :Mr. Bur well, of Queenstown, is the architect: Mr. p. Walker of the same place, ia tlio builder. We are wett off for churches in Arrowtowr; but only very' indifferently provided with schools; - ® : The public here „a¥e still greatly agitated about theintended - sale of the Commonage the impounding propensities of the stock - owners being so well exemplified at Cromwell and other places; and -lastly, the new question raised.... at kerewhenua, ; which would seem to indicate. that not only the earth is theirs, but also the water."