Arrow Jottings.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1829, 24 July 1891, Page 3

Arrow Jottings.

(From an Occasional Correspondent.) As all the world knows, Arrowtown boasts of a water supply, that is to say when the water is not ice. Uufortunately for the past month or two, the water works have been converted into self operating works, congealing the fluid into a solid body, which declining to pass through the pipes, obstinately blocked them. The mistake is preminently that of those for whose benefit the supply was brought in ; if they had let their taps run full force during the frost the water in the pipes would not have been frozen. But seme how it seems that scientific principles are not fully understood by the common people—or for the matter of that, not by the so-called scientific expert either. Witness the Arrow Protective Works, the Kawarau or Dredging and many other items which puzzle the ordinary mind by the gigantic and abortive nature of their failures. These parts certainly do not owe any debt of very deep gratitude to the soi-di'sant scientific expert. Rabbiting, which must certainly be recognised, during winter mouths at least, as one of our leading, industries has been very slack, and only a few lucky individuals have made small or moderaie wages at the game. Although the season so far as the weather is concerned, was favourable, what makes the thing all the more annoying is the fact that prices are pretty high, and likely to continue so, and should the demand for skins increase the question of farming rabbits will seriously commend itself to land owners, and others on the look out for profitting by the waste lands of the colony.