LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 335, 6 August 1875, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(Frorajbur Wn^corresponden?.. T venture to send yoa a brief suamtatr of the more prominenTfacts which have taken place bince my last. In order of merit the last Rospital r lengthy career of an enterprising •'and actav* colonist: Not one of the scheming Q-raballs which are to be found-in every colonial community, but a real good-hearted, hard-working, andrfree-?pentogi[cqlorijßt, whose-readiqess of hand seemed to keep pace with' th of his brain, both being kept in good by his evident'largeness of ft&rtv' ; '- May fairest in peace is wliat we have been tanght by others to say of Kim, and right ieartily is : the prayer offered for him whose talents have been exer- . cised astbecame a pioneerrdf -this"youtyj settlement of Britons of the South—a nanje not more,deserved by any man than by "him of whom I write, and who will be long remembered as " poor old;. Bob Turner.". I have also the painful duty to" peitbnh of stating the death of Mrs. James Chesney, who died at her residence at Arrow late on -Friday .night, or perhaps Saturday morning, after a ' short but veiy s6 verfc illness—iriterrial'inflammation Her kindliness of character increases the'sympathy felt for "her. I - --'.rr The New Rush. (Not at the Mitchell Falls, but between the Shotover -and Arrow rivers, along the Arthur's Point road from Queenstowii to: Arrowtown; through, the farms.) Who has "not heard of the fabulous wealth of the Shotover river from Skipper's Creek down to Arthur's Point ? - There" (Arthui 'a Point) the lead is earthed in a landslip, beyond =wbieh" it \has not been traced until the attempt which is now being made to ex' iutrie ir The "supposed direction of-ihe.lead i 3 east and west, along the base of the range over which the Maori Point pack tracks Q.ueenstown and the Arrow passes. An im» piense;quantity"pf ground is taken up, but, judging .from iia character, w ich is that of & large rather rock—slip, it will b& some time before it is thoroughly proved. The quartz resources of the Arrow District are not being either forgotten or neglected; but winter is not the time when mueh fresh discovery cai be expected." Still, the Crown Terrace Company are. going a-head, -and have got prospects which promise well. " Messrs. Williams and Ferguson have taken up a reef on German Hill, which has formerly produced some prospect, .and .when the snow has cleared off others will follow.