LAKE NOTES.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 35, 31 March 1894, Page 12

LAKE NOTES.

i (From a correspondent.) We are beginning to feel the eifects of winter, but luckily all the crops are gathered in, and threshing is in full swing. Mining matters are a little more lively just now. The Premier Mine, Macetown, continues to have good returns, the Sew Hoy dredges, Arthur’s Point, are paying well, while Romans and party, Crown Terrace, have picked up a “ welcome stranger ” in their claim, in the shape of a 9oz. nugget. At the last sitting of the Warden’s Court at Arrowtown, a number of miners gave evidence in support of having 50 acres of land at Crown Terrace resumed for miningpurposes, when it was ordered that the evidence taken be forwarded to the Minister of Mines. I hear that the Lakes cricketers were rather dissapointed at the Invercargillites failing to send up a team,as they promised to do so on two different occasions, and failed in both. The result of the Licensing Elections is that matters remain as they were before. We have not been very liberally treated with tourists this season. I suppose they are visiting Te Anau and Manapouri, but, for all that our lakes cannot be despised, and through time they will wend their way back to our mountainous region. March 28th.