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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 42, 23 September 1863, Page 4

Owing to the length of proceedings of Saturday's Police Court, we are compelled to hold over till our next the report of Monday's cases.

Mr. Tom Fawcett has adopted a plan, somewhat novel on the goldfields, but which we d >ubt no! will be noticed with pleasure by the inhabitants of Queenstown, —viz., the leasing of stalls at the Theatre Royal for periods of two and three months, at a considerable reduction on the regular price of admittance. By thus increasing the comfort of those who take a pleasure in the drama, he will no doubt greatly add to the support he deserves for endeavoring to supply us with recreation and amusement for our hours of leisure.

To give our friends at a distance a notion of the progress of Queenstown, and the increased value of business sites, we may mention that Mr. Reuben Harris sold bv auction a few days ago a site of fourteen feet frontage to Reesstreet for the sum of £BS sterling. The weather during the past week has been changeable in the extreme, the characteristics of March, May, and St. Swithin's prevailing by turns. Following a night of boisterous blowing, appears a morning of beautiful sunshine, and calm and genial weather, which is succeeded before evening again, by a pouring shower, deepening as the night advances into a storm of rain and furious gusts of wind; and so 011 as before. Fortunately, no damage has been done by the elements as yet, either by the wind or rain. Tile tents still stand, tough as ever, and the Siiotover is still far from another flood. All things considered, we may claim to have had a milder winter than anv other part of Otago; and the symptoms recorded above are hailed as the sure advent of summer.

We have to apologise to our Dutiedin contemporary, the Evening Star, for extracting the " Parliamentary Portrait" published in our last, without acknowledgment.