LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 278, 3 July 1874, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

'. • j'. (From our own correspondent.) I liave been sickened with .a diseasemost unusual to me, and which I may call - political fever. It showed itself in violent fits of opposition, but,, although of" some weeks' duration, it lias not upset my constitution. It is now all over, bowever, except a few remembrances of certain ravings which, accompanied the at-tack-f so I think I am so far recovered as - to be able to send you a line in return for your kind attention during the fit I allude to. Well, sir, during the time I was down with the fever aforesaid in came Tom Erost, and laid heavy hands on the land of my adoption and favor —viz., Lake Wakatip—and the first sight which greeted me on getting up was bands of skaters skimming round the dams, which refused to serve the purposes for which, they were built. Our district is under a cloud for want of means of communication. We have ■26,009 acres under cultivation, and the local , market .cannot supply mouths for our produce. : Punfs and hawlage run away with . the profits to an extent that r is fatal 'to -getting-a market outside our boundaries. But this will soon be cured if there are any enterprising men in the district, to see the work performed by Mr. M'Gormack on the bridge over, the Eawarau, at Seaward's Perry, who will then go and do likewise. 'Tis an old saying that, " Heaven helps them who help themselves."

I fear that which I complain of would be a blessing in your district; but if the reports of the Council business during the last session of tlie Provincial Council of Otago are true, there is hope that you will soon, be able to. quote your comfortable Christmas homesteads as well as us of Lake Wakatip district. I won't send you a long letter this time, for I have not quite recovered from my fever-fit, which—you believe me, sir—was very bad indeed.