LAKE WAKATIPU.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 836, 21 April 1885, Page 2

LAKE WAKATIPU.

(from our own correspondent.) Queenstown, April 20. The week lias been one chiefly marked by two features —it has been full of meetings, and the weather has been flue, though somewhat cold at nights. The meeting of the County Council held on Monday transacted a good deal of routine business. A special meeting as the outcome of it will be held to-day. Business will be confined to the consideration of the proposed Local Government Bill, and to consider what revenue should be granted to the proposed new or reorganised bodies. It will further consider the vesting of the fishing industry in the hands of the County Council. The selection of two delegates to proceed to Wellington and sea Ministers is the only other matter to be considered. Certainly these will in themselves form ample scope for discussion. The County Council is not, however, going to seize control of fishing rights without a struggle, for the Acclimatisation Society oppose the attempt. This body hold that the County Council have not a legitimate claim, as the industry has been created partly by the liberality of the Borough Council and by the efforts of the Association itself. Trout fish is procurable at prices ranging from 6d to Is per pound. There is a good demand for it, especially from Christchurch. The cold nights are, however, against efforts, but still some of the catches have been good. At the Municipal Council on Tuesday it was decided to lay on water to the cemetery. The public contributed £ls through Mr A. Foord towards the expenses connected therewith; the cemetery Trust, £7 ; and the balance (about £10) by the Corporation. The letter from Captain S. N. Brown to the Mayor, read at the Municipal Council last week, and published in Friday’s Mail, is accepted as a graceful compliment to the Review Managing Committee, and the citizens of Queenstown generally, for the satisfactory manner in which affairs were organised during the Volunteer gathering. A rather serious accident has occurred to Mr Gibbon, late storeman to Messrs Robertson and Co., a loose stone from the Invincible Co.’s workings having struck him on the head. It was a narrow escape, and he will soon get right again. The school children are to be daily drilled as cadets. Mr Mehaffey, the schoolmaster, yielding to a general request, has consented to perform the office of drill instructor. The ranks will be open to others than school children, subject of course to approval. The other meetings are of mere local interest, and there is nothing further to report in matters of general interest.