INTERPROVINCIAL.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 836, 13 July 1871, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mr L. Thonemau, has announced that he is a candidate for the office of Mayor at the ensuing election in Dunedin. Capt. Deare, late of the britr Despatch, who recently arrived at Greymouth, is in possession of intelligence of the Jane Ann, commanded by Capt. Smith. The Ann has proceeded on to the Pijis. This will be satisfactory to the friends of Capt. Smith. The following telegram ia dated Napier, July 7 th:—lmportant intelligence—Locke, at Taupo, attended a meeting of the natives in favour of opening the road. There was a large meeting. Locke proceeded to Cambridge and thence to Auckland. The good folks of Lawrence, Naseby, and Queenstown have during the last week enjoyed the rare amusement, in New Zealand, of skating. The pools and dams of the miners have been the scene of the sport. Among the mining on dits from Auckland we hear that Mr Farmer, so well known as one of the largest original shareholders, in the Golden Crown and Caledonian, has sold the whole of his interest in these and other mines at the Thames to Mr Thomas Russell. The sum has not transpired, but is variously stated at from £25,000 to £40,000. Mr Parmer originally held 340 shares in the Caledonian, of which he sold about two months ago 100 to Mr Russell for £IO,OOO ; and it is said he has now cleared with over £BO,OOO from the Caledonian alone. An alpine lake, hitherto unknown, has been discovered by some explorers in the Upper Shotover, Otago. One of the explorers, after describing the difficulties of the country through which they passed, says:—" Here we were rewarded with the first glimpse of a deep blue lake, completely filling the hollow in the mountains. This lake, which I have named Lochnagar, seems to be about three miles in length, and one mile and a quarter in width, and with its picturesque surroundings of jagged peaks, clad to the water's edge with snow, forms a scene sublime, but desolate in the extreme. The creek which flows in at the head, emerges from a field of snow and ice, and falls over a precipice to the level of the lake, the prospect at the upper end of the valley being bounded by a fine peak, which I have named Mount Cunningham. At the date of our visit it was impossible to penetrate further without the aid of a boat, the shores of the lake being apparently inaccessible towards the head. At the point where the surplus water makes the exit from the lake, there have been immense slips on the mountains, and the falls on the creek must be well worthy of a visit, as it makes a descent of at least five hundred feet in a mile."