ARROWTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XI, Issue 575, 16 November 1880, Page 6

ARROWTOWN.

(from our own correspondent,) j November 15. Mr Thomas Mulvahill, who has been mining for a number of years in Bush Creek, where ! he has acquired valuable mining privileges, has served the Corporation with a writ fpr £250 damages, as by the diversion of the water as proposed by the Corporation he will be deprived of the use of it. Should the case not be privately settled, but go into the Supreme, Court,; several nice points in mining law will have to.be settled, and miners would do well to closely watch the case as it proceeds. »; i' ■ . • It has been bruited about for some time that Mr E. J.; Finri, ! M.H.R, for Wakatip, intends to translate himself and business to Wellington, and he is now about to go north for the : purpose of making preliminary arrangements for the move. DuringJhe-last week-40 volumes of light literature— but of a better kind—were added to the stock of reading matter in the book room. The AthenaehtH Committee has some difficulty in finding labor to execute the extension, and other. improvements contemplated, all the carpenters being busily engaged throughout the district. There is now some fear that the present hall will not be extended for the Christmas holidays, which will militate against the several entertainments already on the tapis for the festive season. ! At the nomination of Mayor for the Borough last Saturday Messrs Jenkins (the present Mayor), Pritchard, and Graham were duly proposed and seconded. Some lengthy speeches were indulged in, and Corporation matters got a pretty fair overhauling—especially the water works, now in course of progress, and Borough finance. The selection of the right man for the place will no doubt give the citizens no little bother, as each of the candidates have peculiar claims for consideration of their own, and the worst that can be said against the two candidates who oppose the present Mayor, is that they are trying to turnout agood man for no particular reason. : Mr Jenkins has done very well during his last term of office, and is so deeply mixed, up with the water works scheme that he may almost be said to be the soul of it. Indeed it almost looks as if the new candidates wished to rob the present Mayor of the honor which is invariably attached to carrying through successfully any great and important public work ; besides, when, as Captain of the Arrow Volunteers, he is decked out in handsome uniform, he is decidedly an ornament to the town. All this is more than can he said of any of the other candidates, and the ratepayers may well consider the present position of the water works scheme alone before they confide so important art undertaking to other hands than to those who initiated.it, • The Kawarau bridge has advanced another stage. The roadway is all laid down, and it only requires the parapet on each side to complete the bridge. There then only remains the widening of the cutting on the south side of the Swiftbnrn, and some gravelling and the works can then be thrown open for traffic, which will be early in January. A few weeks will see the Arrow bridge out of the hands of the contractor, and even now the state of the two bridges is such that should anything happen to the punt the Dunedin coach could cross both bridges in a case of emergency. A public meeting was held last Thursday to protest against the interference with existing arrangements in the Gold Receiver’s office here. It had leaked out that the Government intended to do away with the Gold Receiver ait and let the Receiver fronq Queenstown.'attend on two days of e^chThis .arrangement is strongly protested against by the whole district, and the contemplated change is felt to be some-

thing as goihg beyond what is just and due to the importance of the district. The returns for the past year shows that the business of the. office is steadily on the increase, while that of the Queenstown office is decreasing. The meeting was a (Host enthusiastic one, and entered into the business and the merits of the case with real earnest,' and showing plainly to what extent the proposed alteration was condemned'by those’ affected.