LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 291, 26 September 1874, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(I?rom, our own correspondent.)

' r . September 22nd. i This district is in the enjoyment of fiiiespring weather, but, being yet early, it isv chequered with storms, sometimes a littlecoarse, but seldom violent; and, altogether, it promises well to the culturistsand graziers. The farms are being combed : by the plough, and spring work is fairly inaugurated ; whilst our Commonage, which was supposed to be set aside for great cattle only, is thiekly covered with sheep and lambs—so much for Government management.

-Clarke, the member for the Lakes, has resigned his position in the Provincial Council, for the alleged reason "that it is useless to hope for any adequate return ' from that body to the district." j'''JßLe -•-'.' therefore looks upon his resignation 'as a. -f , necessary protest against ProyinciaKsm ! V*:; 4 .He is of the Shire' system. : . Be"" % slates that his expressions were stifled by , the Dunedin Press, in the interests of a "* phalanx of Dunedin and coast line members, who. out-voted every measure or made-ip- favor of -the* inland -tricts. If these things are so; it is; easy":-;"" to see why public works around Dunedin, as a centre, and non-esv "" istant up here. - .. -'-"••-: i. Society.is agitated from the summitthe base by the reported good finds at the Palmer; and the consequence will be that a good stream of emigration; is likely to set in to that country— consisting xhi'eflyj ~ of small capitalists—from a country which " ; is paying rather dearly just now for immigration, namely, New Zealand. Really it would appear that the attractive industry of mining—which legislators decry somuch in this country—is capable -of strongly affesting, for weal or otherwise, *' any community which can foster or check, it; and lam expecting that those parties . r who have set their minds, on cheeking.it'v v as much as possible Zealand, will 'have; extensive latitude and some assist- ''i-. anpe to carry out their designs in the ab- ■*.'. sence of the-miners, whose'minds arei*sickened by the unprincipled selfishness ■- which gives rise, to such;.'cases- as the. Maerewhenua -pollution case." Large sums;' of money will leave this -district'for the . Palmer, and pToperty'will be much depressed, for a time at least'; and should a large extent of country prove payably - auriferous in North Australia, it wULJbe; some time before we overcome its attract*, tions so as to recover ourselves. '^

Some, of our storekeepers have been i looting with, a longing eye of our • gold-bearing quartz reefs,, which have- \ beehrihown-to exist for many years, but there-being no growing timber, or roads to get foreign by, triaiis virtually impossible. Certainly it sounds "well to .speak of specimens, but I have seen bushels of specimens \ here years ago, and I believe a - quartz reef would.ha veto be nearly all . . gold—rand preity thick at that—before- ' ■. -anyone would lqc>:k at it in this' locality with a view of expending money or labor. ' ~- There is good news from Gjjace's Shot- „ over claim, and another company „(allu- * vial) is starting in the Arrow l —to be called ' \ " The Universal Gold Mining Company " r " —under the management of Mr. Denis O'Keefe."J; . - v ,-. The Arrow is looking well, but dull. "-• . Queenstown hasten in mourning £cr- v .the decease of Mrs. J. P. Ttflly. --^'