SWITZERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 327, 4 February 1874, Page 3

SWITZERS.

{From a Correspondent.) As "your own" appears to have grown xnetj, I "will endeavor to occasionally supply you with the doings of this terra incognita of Otago's goldfields, as outsiders term this place. lamof a more sanguine temperment, and expect to see Switzers shine in the history of the province at no distant date. As you are aware, we have a telegraph line almost completed, when we shall be in full communication with the powers that be. It is my humble opinion that a little of the surplus ""capital floating about the province might be profitably employed in stretching a wire across to the Australian continent, and thus put us daily eomncunication with the civilised world. I am informed that, our worthy postmaster's daughter has got the appointment as telegraphist. It is a matter of regret that the office should not have been built in time for the completion of the line. At Tapanui there is no sign of operator or offices, though the line has been finished some weeks. Some of the thrifty housewives there suggest that they could utilize the wires as a clothes-line till eucb time as the authorities tfainlc fit to make ■ use of it. It is vey tantalising to see the wire hanging there and yet have to ride 30 miles to Bend a message. But it is the style of our New Zealand Governments throughout the piece to do things by halves. - ■ There is some talk of a general flitting from the hill down to the Government township on the flat. A very desirable move I consider. We can then ect the hill sluicers to run their tailings up to our doors, and save us the trouble of gravelling our footpaths. We shell aB a matter of course follow the example of the Arrowtown people, and get our township incorporated, after which we shall endeavor to elect a man on whom will be conferred the mystic title of J.P., and not be in the same box with the " Golden City of the Interior." These last few months our Celestial population has been on the increase. A party of new chums arrived lately, and have set to work hereabouts. Several parties are working the bed of the Winding Creek, which they do in a very systematic manner. Standing on Frenchman's Hill of a still night, the. monotonous roll of the water wheels can be heard in all directions,