THE SHOTOVER.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 90, 15 September 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE SHOTOVER.

'1 Correspondent of tho Wakatip Man.) Point Septembers 1863. IT grlat dearth of news in this W I resent. * The mining 00m-IjiJnSidily-tworkdlTerttag & of Ac river, and in many Sf large quantities of sold have R.! lam glad to perceive I Knk ' viz. : the N-* Zealand ** .rSivin^jeS 15s. 6d. for large E high time indeed that % - like an adequate price was s n M\ as that on the Shotover is fait Vlity t6 the best Ballarat Miners are leaving tins district, but _3h arrivals more than counterSVhose who leave. The population SjtE J increase, and I firmly, believe ___rt« this summer will far exceed Sf any other goldfield hitherto dis--15 in N^ Zealand, v i^idual instances of success occur '!Ld in V oft repeated warnings to iS of no avail. Instead of rushing &fllv after new rushes, i f they were to S prospect the goldflelds they are Pi, it would ultimately lead to jLung but flourishing township «f is now a», established tact. ?%ith the numhers of stores ana fonts, others in course of erection, ge in prospective, we are be = g m-ne the appearance ol a X 1 " 0 " 1 " 1 Sp.' Evidences .of our mcreased Sn, moreover.are to be found in the iat we are graced by the presence ot il-of thc'gentler sex. g happy -to state that flic race™ .Yof instruction by the United iii Company is now nearly completed Rbi course of a few days we e»ect f the river turned at this po.nt. 1 his Uu an arduous and trying nnd«-g^-the lialuml obstacles presented by Ser being almost insuperable- und I Sey will meet the reward they so ill -merit. . ... , £ surveyor of the district has been up inspecting the road, which is almost fcasever. The munificent grant of from our liberal Government to cut idle track from Arthur's Point to iter's Gully is generous' in the extreme, -aught to adopt something like the wicyof the Jews— not before or atfler |_6d!but before the visit of iPyke, and the visit of Pyke. The sum of £-1000 a -hot be more than adequate to make wit bridle track. On the occasion of ety next flood, should such adreadfnl lity afflict us, every water-course and : «will be dammed up. and then the will be in a worse state than ever it itffore. The pally after crossing the c from Arthur's Point is the most reeable quagmire that ever -man put lot into— equal to the worst times of or G-luepot-road, 'between kon and Kilmore, Victoria, in '-S'2. whole grant itself would scarcely be ient to make this portion of the road hie. Considering the enormous >rate iich we are taxed fer every article we line, it is infamous to think that ■.cannot be spured to make a decent Y.j" Truly we live under a paternal rtfment. I presume the powers that iagine tliat it is a*-delightful pleasureito tool along a four-iu-hand from nstown to Maori Point, b ,were under a delusion that a postYwasto be established here, but as yet ng in that shape has greeted the Inngves of the Shotover residents. Were t'for Fox's Express, Aye should hear ing of ithe outer world.