THE LAKE DISTRICT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 216, 15 June 1866, Page 3

THE LAKE DISTRICT.

(from our Queenstown, June 13. We have had a heavy fall of snow, but the Scandinavian Company wiU'continue packing. The case of "Rowley v. Fraer." in which injunctions had been issued, has been settled favorably for Rowley. A small shop and allotment in Ileesstreet, with foui-teen feet frontage and no 0 diet at rear, was sold for £iOU. The competition was keen. Great indignation against the Gove;rn ment, for refusing to make the jetty practically useful. The townspeople" guarantee to be responsible for damage done by floods, if the jetty is built according to their plans. It is considered a waste of public money to build it in the manner contracted for. The Government have taken oiF the man kept to repair the Maori Point and Skipper's track. The quartz companies and packers Lave agreed to tax themselves at the rate of Gd. a horse, for the purpose of keeping the road free from slips. Fine treatment this to people trying - to open up the resources of the country. Mr. Greenlaw objects to opening a bridle track on the main road to Dunstan through the cliffs. Business good. The Rev. Fathers Martin and Belliard have paid us a visit, and have both held services in the district. The latter will shortly pay you a visit. Both are much liked here. A very considerable number of mar-' ; riages have recently taken place in this ; district. The registrars of Queenstown and Arrow have not been ilie. Female domestics are very scarce, and we hope for a kind of voluntary immigration of this I sex. Ido not know how it is to be managed, but employers say they wiil not go to the expense of getting up barmaids and servants wbo go off the hooks rather to unpleasantly quick. it is a horrible slate of ami s, and to use a commercial phrase, the demand has led to a sorting up of old stock, without, however, being able to me< t pressing requirements. The Otago Quartz Company's new machinery- works admirably, The machine--1 oute is th'r y feet by forty. All the wood and shingles were obtah ed on the spot. The machinery is driven by a turbine wheel. The fall of t!.e column of water is sixty feet, which gives eighteen horsepower, and the Company could work double the number of stampers they have at present erected. They have three heads of water, conveyed to where it is used by fluming, one mile in length, which joins on the main race. The manager's house is very prettily situate, and looks like a bird cage hung in a nook, standing as it does upon the a'most perpendicular face of a hill, covered with a thick bushy scrub. The house is much admired by vistors. It is stated that the bed logs for the machinery being erected by the Scandinavian Company will each cost over £SO, though obtained in the neighborhood. The Criterion Quartz Company, Arrow, washed up on Saturday last. Eighty tons of Btuff, chiefly mullock, yielded ninetyfive ounces. A severe shock of an earthquake, accomponied by a rumbling noise, was felt here last Saturday morning, at 9.15 a.m. Tne escort takes down 421 oz. of gold from Queenstown, and 415 oz. from the Arrow. T3ie Citizen's Roll of Queenstown has just been completed. It contains less than eighty names. A very severe frost set in on Sunday evening.