LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 325, 28 May 1875, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(From our own correspondent.) ; Your Lakes correspondent has slept pretty soundly for some time j and, were he to* awaken to a sense of his" owti. shortcomings,it might be a healthy sign of his. -probable future usefulness.... Such a verdict as the" above would, I apprehend, be merited in my .ca-se—for; like the" country I have the honor to represent in your columns, I am decidedly pitchy, arid perhaps some of your" sarcastic readers nright feel inclined to carry this parallel still further, and say, "aye! and the patches are. light, and so is your correspondent.." If such should be their lam'inclined to ?' l.et.bj-gones be bygone's," and "sinrt on a new'leaf.

You know Hie Provincial Council is sittrng'.So dovl, but I'don't know what .they are doing—do , j.ou? I fancy you would- tell me they are looting after the. interest of the Goldfields. This is u ricleniable, for it is evident that not only havo they taken to heart (D'ttnedin) the interest, but also the principle, and unless some fostering care is to the poor Government, she dies a cruel lingering -death from exhaustion. " ■''■, ' " ' . :~

Fresh proof of our resources are continually coming to hand. Beefs are being looked up; both here arid elsewhere, and. satisfactory .prospects got. The Macetown Eeefs have got atrial crushing, of one.ton,: which yielded to the prospectors (Hall and party) 5 ez.-2 dwts. 12gvs. This is followed by the tributers of the; Phoenix Company at Skippers striking some "good rich stone; "as reported two days ago by one of their- party,- Mr. J. "Neil. It is l-eported that they sold a sixteenth share for £75. Our alluvial resources Ei'Vnot yet exhausted, asiristancedbythefinds •of Squires and party, 8.. Clarke, G. Hansen and party, and many others in Arrow, and the large extent of surrounding country which remains untested, and must so remain until roads are made to make timber supplies! available. Men cannot now set in to work in this district unless they can support themselves for a considerable length of time, and put on a plant of tools' and appliances. Buii even if they have the necessary means for that, they must have excellent prospects to pay for timber, which is indispensable in mining the slopes arid terraces of the Wakatip district, or its extensive resources of matrix. Not until-the Kingston line is completed, and dray roads made to Skippers arid Macetown, may we hope=to- get out the bullion which, lies in our hills.

The simile used by his Honor in Lis opening address of the man bound and spurned as a cumberer 19 indeed very applicable to this district in the state in "which it is placed by the neglect it has suffered at the hands of the Provincial authorities.