THE ARROW.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 11, 25 June 1864, Page 3

THE ARROW.

(From the Correspondent of the Lake Wakatip > '": •'■■■ Mail.) ' '.'■'■'■'■ • ■ Friday, June 17. Very inclement' -weather has prevailed -here during the past week; show has fallen heavily, the ground having been povered in the township, and adjoining low-lying ; 'places to a r deptli ; four, inches. On the 'river, ats||isj|n's and the TwelvoMile Diggings', mmiriglias^een^puch impeded, and the tracts to those places .rendered almost impasjsable,.although th&rjcpniTOdtpr^-are doing their .beat r in pushing on .fche v cuttM^ "o£siQ new^ftracks',tc) the" latter place: ''Travelling to"the Cadroni^is now! a wor^ of danger and difiiculty. and; snould another fall pi snow set'in atpresent^partiesresiflingithere.' -will jbe cutoff, froiffi.all ' coromvuiicati6n ; with the Arrdw;- Themnfortun'ate m^f^miHi,' generally j known as Yorkey, who met withl^seripus accident lately- bn . the Oaarona track; " 'wasf "brptight in (. on-i ]Sunday last by a party of volunteers, and; is 'now ;safely housed,-ih,the'Hospitol.\.-;rA. remarkable .-in-i • stance of 1 the sagacity. of _ a dog occurred ,iri|.c6n-> nection with the accident. . . After Smith fell, • from* his horse, he was found lying on tlie,grouhd ; by . some travellers, jyvho carried, him to ai.teiit:" .sojpo;' distance down the creek, and the saddle oiiwliicK" ! he hadridden waa.left by.them lying on thp ground. , Meanwhile a dog, belonging to : ,the urifovtunatci ', man, which he had previously left tied up "at ' the-' Cadrona . township, had got loose -and , fpllowed the trac^of his master. On coming tpthV saddle the animal recognised it, and remained on guard for three days, defying all comers tp remove it, and ; only deserted his post when driven to by hunger. ... .._.•-. \ ,- Mining news from the Cadrona does "not Bpeak of any Tery important yield or fresh discovery, except a vein or bed of lignite near the township, which yields" the miners an~abundant""sujgb/ of fuel. It is said to be most easily, obtained, xia& must prove an invaluable bbon in a district so very thinly wooded. At the Roaring Meg and Gentle Annie section of the Main Trunk Road operations have been nearly entirely suspended, the Government having discharged- about 200 men last week, and the only, work now in hand is the completion of a small sub-contract, on which . about. twenty men ,pnly . are , employed. Storekeepers on the road, Vho had laid in heavy stocks in anticipation of the works being continuous, are woefully out in their calculations, and the public will have yet to wait a little longer for ithe first arrival of the promised coach from j Dunedin to the Arrow. | The snow has caused a delay in the work of improvement to the township street, and the unfinished places in it are now perfect glue-pots ; but a few fine days will see the task completed, to the increased somfort of every resident. I have heard that manifest indications of a quartz reef were discovered during the survey of the 12-Mile track, existing at the head of the Saw Pit Guiiy, distant about four miles from this township, but no explicit information has yet come to hand. Our police, doubtless, finding nothing to do—- a wearisome occupation when carried to extremes — have lately busied themselves in compelling our hotelkeepers to keep lamps burning at night outside their doors, and have also been down upon sundry of our bonifaces for keeping late hours. A burning and a shining light is, doubtless, an essential requirement to a thoroughfare during the long winter nights, but it seems somewhat absurd to suppose that any publican can always for a certainty know the exact time carried by any overzealous policeman, and regulate the hours of closing and opening Ms house thereby, when no standard of time can be said to exist here. In a j recent case brought before the Arrow Court, the complaining constable utterly failed to prove the charge of "being open after 12 p.m.," as he could obtain no witnesses who agreed in their statements as to the actual time of the alleged offence. 1 have heard complaints made that trivial charges of this kind should be brought on such uncertain grounds against a class of traders who cannot just now afford to lose any chance of doing a legitimate business. It has been suggested that if the Government would erect a clock at each camp or post-office, to be regulated on the return of each escort from Dunedin, an obvious void would be filled up, and a standard of time established which would prevent in some measure the repetition of complaints against the officious interference of the police. En passant, the unusual sight of a member of the Otago constabulary force, in uniform, has deen noticed here during the last day or two. For a long time past, the beauties of the navy-blue jumper and Bedford cord continuations have been completely enshrouded in the garments of mild swelldom ; an improvement to the outward man in some respects, perhaps ; but in the event of a lively street row, how would Mr. Policeman, mingling in the crowd in citizen garb, preserve his identity ?