AS OTHERS SEE US.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 256, 30 January 1874, Page 2

AS OTHERS SEE US.

A- few miles down Molyheux, Alexandra, a queer looking town poked away amongst large masses of boulder rock is passed, and then bending to the northward the road runs through several small Goldfields towns to Xaseby, distant, by the coach road (which takes' considerable', circuits to take in the various settlements),' about sixty miles. The country to Nasei by is for trie most part through open rolling downs, _ apparently splendid sheep, land ; the distinctive .haracteristics of a

gold country—rock and sterility—being absent. The town, which lies at a very considerable elevation above the sea—l6oo feet—is one of the best specimens, I should say, of a Goldfield town; on all sides, in the v streets themselves, round the very ' church, which is perched up on a bit. "of ground only just preserved sacred from the pick and shovel, there are signs'of %e destructive miner. Acres ,of land turned- ' over in all directions, and the muddy water of tailraces running down the main- > thoroughfares, present altogether a curious ~\v picture, not the less odd by the funny V collection of the small sheet iron shanties which for the most part make up Naseby. I will not libel Goldfield towns generally by supposing the inhabitants require so much powerful refreshment as do the Nasebyites, but, counting no less than ' fourteen houses within a very limited area of a street, curiosity tempted me to "ask 1 the total number of such houses within 1 ,the town ' belt. Seventeen was the an - 1 swer, and one just outside. Eiahteeri \ ! publics in a place not a quarter the size 1 of- Timaru shows a heavy demand for ' i liquor—a demand undoubtedly existing I for. my, informant -Went on to say that i the.drinking shops were'doing the merriest of" trades.- In "the neighborhood of Nasebyv Government' is constructing an enor- 1 moiis water race to supply a large 1 di<r-~-' gingarea. , v t>e"race will be some sixty miles m,len"gt!V,,and is to 'carry forty' heads -of water. The rent to be demanded is to-be; £5 per week per head, a rent I" - was, informed .miners will only too wiU lingly-pay-for the great advantages accruing. ;. .Taking the Otago Goldfields through/- , the-average yield per man is still very'' large among,the European miners the Chinamen, of whom there are a large number scattered up and down the 1 coufr." try, being content with-small wage' -thiir wants ,-being proportionate, and talaris' •their'_ gold away; to China with them-: ■ -Leaving .Naseby .by the Dunedin road ■-' • we see the last of the gold digging-"" Stdjil. ping for the night at a place calied PjL'root, a., gloomy and cut-throat looking-"-places and.'where the accommodation is'jm -' miserable contrast to the general excellent provision for the comfort of travellers met • with-, in the Goldfield towns, we next morning made <Palmerston. Herald.'

John C. Heehan, the antagonist of Saversin the memorable international prize fiefitVdied;on October 26 in a town on the- Pacificjßailway, by way of which he 1 .-was proceeding to Califoh.ia for the benefit of his health,-which Has been impaired ever since his fight with! King.