THE KE DIGGINGS.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 57, 26 May 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE KE DIGG INGS.

•lOM^OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) 1 QUEEttSTOWN. W"p 18th May. isiderable excitement has been est<?d concerning the election of a er to represent our mining interCoi&icil. Mr. Manders held a Bg ori Thursday evening last at en's Queen's Arms Hotel, but basis his wont, he "spouted" }. mtly and at great length, he does v ppear to have been understood by j? in whose hands his political fate is ! £■ The answer to some questions y e to Miss Rye's Immigration b ie, and the payment of Members, | * d hearty laughter, ; but the amit and intellectual candidate, after . tting his ideas (without expe- ) on tbe subject of imprisonment Kibt; after expressing his convicJ. bat religion was a question which aot concern the miners ; after ning base imputations," and re--1 to reply to "grovelling" questions, le himself without a seconder, and icted in rather an undignified, not & hasty manner. To use his own g but rather unmeaning language, ,a s left in " barren glory," and will c bly " wander about like a dove J loan's Ark" over the waste of the ;ai tip, with no resting- place for his * tic foot ; Mr. J. H. Moses ad>ll d the " free and independent hi " on Saturday at the Queen's * Though the audience was a ■1, one, there was no disorder ; and ?n ndidate went through a seveie v examination with great credit to If. His views have already been W 4 the public in his answer to the of the electors in the WalcaivLiil. Although there are other lates in the field, some of opposite, P r j if similar opinions, he is generally nit jed to be the '* coming man." ?u digging; are creeping down the " i ?er, towards the junction of the c ira. Good prospects have been ed on "the Kawaura, between the ra ms of the Arrow and Shotover ; hr is 'Hkely there will be a large a* ition working there before many ik s are over. 'The Arrow township ;a rs to be'in a state of great depresWe hear melancholy rumors of idden and secret departure of x men unable to meet their Kabjl- • liJdf hotels which could -not have >ri«)ened'underi£6oo selHrrgfor -£75 ; ha! 88 c o sed a °d business at theJowitli. This is the more unaccount°Wftie yeild of gold has nob de>?eiP» nor tne population much dimiest Queenstown on the contrary aus upits old spirit, and appears to ir Vj touch money to speculate extenn **riie ill-fated and much abused [ h t was sold on the beach cm Sattrr I *tj it! £140 was given for "her by iml Black and Gordon. liei üblic meeting was held at the f m s Arms Hotel on Friday evening, ual purpose of taking steps to raise essary funds for the support of >at spital in course of erection at nt( own. Nugent "Wood, Esq., ocJ,J the chair. The Chairman ! wa !hat the building would be roomy ; imfortable, and that one ward J aoibe ready 'for the reception of wit sin the course of three weeks. nof £50 was collected in the t>on md the interest and good feeling ssib was manifested lead us to hope °J e f ( institution will meet with libE ti iport. If our Tuvercargill friends ye reaped so rich a harvest from rtions of those who amidst hardth( hich cannot be described, brin j? ling it the buried treasures of * h^ il, feel rinclined to assist in tfar '* n g to them when overcome by el itigue, and sickness, they have Yjj rtunity of doing so. The names , r he committee will be published bun and theaddresses of those autho- ] ireceive subscriptions also given. t, th atcber's popular entertainments a, JJ am commenced ; whether owing ince 'nnouncement of new songs, — tur er's Political Meeting," g 'Tbe a >9> cc Committee," etc., etc., or to "asrertised " g reat reduction in ith^l we do not know, but certain it [ ers 4iis audiences are large and engt ; , ie enough to satisfy even the ag i table's' 5 ambitious spirit. Aca ™s to the Daily Times, Mr Wood, *hai den, has been burnt, hanged, itate lerwise "kilt by infuriated j^iJ and irascible holders of bench Dttftr claims ; but I may as veil sen*) U that the slaughtered gentleJ^l continues to perform his vari■l^jies/to his own and the public de^on ; and that the district is on afct2f c yer J quiet, contented, and qn VS. aeatf-