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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 870, 9 October 1874, Page 2

In another column will be found the usual notices stating the day of nomination and election for a member for the Lakes District, in the room of Mr Clarke, resigned. The electors will have plenty of time to make up their minds. The only two known candidates in the field are Messrs lanes and Manders—the latter is the only one who has definitely declared his principles. The gold escort, on Saturday, took away from Queenstowu 1227 ounces, and from Arrow, 600 ounces. MrT. S. Nieol, one of Messrs Boves Bros, stockriders, writes to say the report to which we gave publicity last Tuesday —that lie had broken his arm—is without foundation. We learn that Dr Neville, Bishop of the Anglican Church of this Province, is expected to visit this district towards the close of next month. He will hold a confirmation in St Peter's Church ; and, we are told, will be asked to consecrate the portion of the cemetery which is allotted to his flock for the purposes of interment. The following appeared in commercial column of the latest Sydney Morning Herald: —Messrs Allen and Co. received the following late telegram from London, to-day : —" Bayly's Mudgee wool sold at top price, 41 d." The land in the Dart Hundred, to be opened on the 20th instant, will be so open either for selection or sale. All applications received on the 20th instant will be treated equally —not by priority of lodgment. Mr Fergus, District Engineer, has been inspecting the works of this district. This gentlemen had intended to proceed to the Head of the Lake, to examine the road that settlers there have been requesting the Government to reserve and define, under the deferred payment svstem, but he arrived in Queenstowu a few minutes too late to catch the steamer. Mr Fergus will inspect it on his next visit, but in the meantime Mr Spence, District Surveyor, who has to lay out the newly proclaimed Dart Hundred, abutting the selections above referred to, will probably report upon the application. Mr Fergus' visit further led to the resumption of active operations at the Arthur's Point Bridge. The prospecting party fitted out by the Westland Government report (from Jackson's Bay) that they have found gold at several places as far south a3 the point known as " The Cascades," but not in a sutlicient quantity to warrant a rush. The meeting of the Jockey Club, called for Wednesday evening at Powell's Family Hotel, ' for arranging about the annual meeting, lapsed for want of a quorum, only two gentlemen, besides the President, being present. Really, publie spirit in Queenstowu seems to be at a very low ebb. We have been shown a Dunedin telegram from his Honor the Superintendent to Mr John Robertson, mail contractor, wherein his Houor states that he has made arrngemcnts for the steamer Maori to call off Martin s Bay once a month, and that the contract for such service will be signed this month. We hope the result will not be like similar attempts to establish regular communication with Martin's Bay, viz., a farce, through inability to call owing to stress of weather. There is something ominous in the expression used by his Honor —" the Maori to call off Martin's Hay." The first overland mail to Jamestown closes at the Qucenston n Postofiice to-night at U o'clock. We understand that the requisite number of shares having been taken up in the Sons of Fortune claim, the company formed for working the same will be forthwith advertised. Mr Albert Evans, Arrowtown, will bo the legal manager. The company has very good speculative chances before it. ihe basis upou which it is established involves hardly any risk, and the ground can be worked very cheaply, aud without machinery. The company oug.it therefore to succeed. The following letter to B. Hallenstein, Esq., M.P.C., re the Islands, has been placed at our disposal by the Town Clerk" Provincial Secretary's Office, Dunedin, September, 1874. Sib, —Referring to Mr Betts' letter of the 20th ult., which is herewith returned, I have been directed to acquaint you that the Government has only recently received an intimation from the honorable the Colonial Secretary that the Crown Grant of the Islands in Lake Wakatip are to be issued. The Provincial Secretary has, however, requested the Commissioner of Crown lands to expedite their preparation. In the meantime, and pending the passing of an Ordinance by the Provincial Council, the Government is unable to give the Corporation of Queenstowu any title or control over the Islands.—l am, &c., Alex. Willis, Under Secretary." In forwarding above letter for information of the Town Council, Mr Hallenstein appends the following memo "At my request Mr D. Ileid, Provincial Secretary, brought up this matter at the "\\ aste Land Board, and requested that tho management of the Islands should be vested meanwhile iu the Corporation. The Waste Land Board agreed to give permission to any person the Corporation may appoint for the cutting of timber ; it will, therefore, be necessary for the Corporation to name some one to the Waste Lands Board." We may mention that the name of the Mayor has been submitted to the Waste Lands Board for approval. The Guardian, of which Mr Pyke is editor, remarks: —" There is already a superfluity of candidates in the field for the vacancy caused by Mr Clark's resignation. Mr lunes, Mr J. A. Miller, and the ever-recurrent are " ready in arms and eager for the fray." It would be well if the latter gentleman were elected. Not that ho would prove a good representative, but because the old story about a climbing monkey would be realised, and ho would hereafter cease from troubling." Notwithstanding the bad name it has got, there are evidently some things the most voracious of fishes caunot swallow. In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday the Mayor and M. J. Malaghan, J.P., presided. There were ouly three civil actions set down for trial, and one of these was settled out of Court. The other two were cross-actions between Barnett and Roche, and which cases were partly heard six weeks ago, and adjourned to have the evidence of an absent witness taken. To-day the cases were further adjourned, Roche ob'a ning £1 costs. Mr Turton for Roche, Mr Finn for Barnett. The case is one of disputed identity of certain cows. The following advertisement appears in a Taranaki paper: —Henry . Wright, A.C., not being at present in a position to pay his creditors most respectfully asks them to wait till he is in funds, wnen he will pay all demands; and hopes, as blood cannot be drawn from stones, they will accept this intimation.