LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 255, 23 January 1874, Page 2

LAKE WAKATIP.

(From our own correspondent.)-,; y - ''-'■ ' : V-;Jaxmarj.l2tlCrß74.* •'- We are having-rather'a"; broken state of- f summer ■"weather." r Too ""much"Vet f or ■ fruit or, grain.." is 'already * laid a little, ,ahd, 'if'"wet"' continues ' long;some loss will accrue "to -farmers." A - - though the on light-crops will "be probably beneficial;' 'tis _ sqme'whaFsevere" on the newly"''shorn sheep and- lambs.But the" grass ds excellent.. -I never ."saw " it look so_weHat this time of the year. ," Shearing and /harvest has'frun-away " with a goodly, number of'our'floating population, bufour- mines' are in full swing". The holidays being' over,,' all' is" again' activity. ' Ourr population, 'being ..scattered, seem at the Christmas 'gathering. .Being stowed away in ; the mountains, and not seeing 'each other, they seem surprised that they can muster so many as turn out at our Christmas ;- " sports. But the most evident change ap-"* -~c parent is the increase of .women and dren." Numbers of minefVhave jng, the., experiment, haying been ,told.T" that marriage* effected'a great /saving in;~' blankets ;so our cold mountain air has " "done" some'good: " ' ' - ~ Considerable' indignation is felt here at the action of Borton and M'Master in regard to the Maeresvhenua water pollution case;.-and some-.unquotable comments - are being freely used over it. However, as the case is" in lawyer's hands, let it -. stand without remark, so far as-the indi-' yidual case is concerned. But it is rioht"and'proper to consider the pollution of/ streams apart from the case, as in equity not in law. Apart from the case in ques--* *ti|n, is" it right that men ~ should be alkwed to wash poisonous sheep skins'in water which other people may use-in-ig-norance, and be thereby,injured? Thiswhich is bad enough with clean animals,' is rendered worse „in a ten-fold degre#by diseased ones-; and if hard-working "industrious men are to be driven' country for the purpose of'making accommodation for the better 'management of sheep, alas !, for our. Immigration Scheme. But .will miners unite ? did they ever unite hrany way but one ? and are they.likely to have recourse to'that highest of privileges.on" this occasion? -'" are questions "agerly ;asked 'here since , news the- Maerewhenua' case arrived. Tf miners' hearts are no larger than they were \at the" time that poor Boult got fined £lO and costs for prospecting on M'JNabs run, I, cannot hope for much financial sympathy from them as a bodv It appears' that the bump of caution, "is pretty largely developed in them when they allow one aaolhei\to be treated like that without bearing a helping .hand to lighten the burden which fell "on, a comraue who was acting the part of pioneer to the whole. Let us hope that the neglect was not" a studied-one, and that mi- ' ners will be as thoroughly alive to repel one kind of aggression as another. One tiling the miners here are --peaking ol is their refuel to use the paper of the tanks unless gold is raised to something J "? li s noffi . uial ™me. I hear the Central Executive are intending to suggest it -to local associations But I should have expected better things from Mr. Yogel than favoring sueh a "monopoly as that "indulged m l,y' the banks, and can only h'jpc that he did not foresee it .in time, j. i uly circumstances look terribly omi» - nous for miners in Xew Zealand,