LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 314, 5 March 1875, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(From Our owii correspondent.;

I have the same dull times to report to' you, and I feel ashamed to resort to the subject, but 'tis my duty to do so, for the fact is surprising,. as well as ■'unpleasant, and to those who reason on cause and effect it is suggestive of one very pertinent fact in Colonial life—namely, that society cannot healthily" support many droiies. Neither unlimited resources, or boundless territory,-, can servtf those who will not use them. Too' many sharks for the other kind of fish; so they' prey upon one and complain more" loudly than any other class. It is time'that these facts were placed before the public in such a manner that Csesar might get Ms due. Perhaps a few facts might explain why a district like the Wakatip should be dull when-' its miners are getting paid at least as well as in most other places, and its farms yield good crops. Here then is the first fact: There are more publicans and publicans' servants in the Wakatip district than practical miners; secondly—we have enough business iner and their attendant satellites to serve three such" communities; thirdly —we have lawyers enough to do ten times the business; fourthly;—there is mot one practical miner-to every s'qxiare mile within the jurisdiction of the Wardens; fifthly the means of communication are so bad that only certain classes of claims can be advantageously occupied,for any which need timber will not pay unless,or until, the roads are made; sixthly—so' many difficulties and hardsliips. bo many rents; and royalties, so much ]->ublic and commercial extortion, and, above all; the terrible fact that no provision exists whereby the miner cart make himself a comfortable home with any degree of certainty. I heard that a certain M..P.0. for , Olagr.,said that "the miners ners passed over the face of this country like a devouring flame, leavingnothing behind them." Jfow, I think that unless some change occurs in the.treatment of miners; that the "nothing " which ihey are leaving behind them will soon extinguish them (in the Wakatip district at least) and,-should it. occur, times will be still more dull.

At Arrowtown, in Mr. Scoles's Orleans' Hotel, on Tuesday last, week, an entertainment was given to S. 2?.. Brown, Esq.; late" editor of the 'Arrow Observer. 5 About i(J gentlemen sat down to supper, among Vhein Air. J. T. JM. ELohisby, Mr. Brown's successor in the ' Observer' office. Mr. Brown—and through him his lady and family—were feted with ; onor and good wishes—the former for their past conduet in the Arrjw, I lie latter foi their oueeess in their new sphere of action. The company broke up at a late hour afwr spending a most enjoyable evening. Have you any vines at 2faseby ? I saw some nice grapes growing in the open air last week, On a trellis in front of the cot'.age of Mr. Ales. Innes, late M.P.C. Your altitude cannot be higher than the Arrowy I should think.