LAKE COUNTY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1752, 20 June 1885, Page 11

LAKE COUNTY. (FROM OU R OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

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burn, ou !—l'ho! — I'ho actions for breaches of thi Salmon anl Trout Act, hoard at QusenstDwn l*at, woek, have, attar d hpuwto «.tvjas,'io3 oy the accueod snrl tho'r counifl, eidei in summayy canvictions beinjj "baitndugiio t Iho tr.iii ; \ci-03b0is in every capo. The twt.cu.ii* h:tv« alioa<Jy bcoa wired to yon, 30 that your foi,.io- .-.frf xn pc?aes>i >n of the evidence ; but aa paac^i*.^ io a': i(h p'i",o'a hj.% spread ovfr the dittiic'i, .v fl iiwinjj; to the difficulty of detection in a apurcely populii^i! '• I'iy.lit' h 11 boo"! carried on with impunity, is say, »i -1 -v. eil to revt rt to the matter' aguin, in unicr to j>'\i>.. on • (.o liiorfe who rce'-flessly run iho ri-k the da^;,-e: i> -ihioh they exposo saemiclvej. I"' is 1 (. o ujatiy i''*f>i io look up'm the Acts rs^ulating ft3h 11^ mi i ■ lie fiVuerios of f.h« Colony rs doai lettex-a, au.i c)>joid<!r coavjotio 1 0 undoif them a3 almost im--Ji.baiblu. All tSiO-'i «lio chui'i'jh these notions havo now h i.l pyo i positi> 0 iihati such i 'oaa uro faliaciom 1 , f ,r not • lily are fchi, AoU pntant realil.iea, but (he cfficialaappomt'-'d Ui.doi 1 thorn aad tho adminiaoifatoro f.r; fu'U -Uivt; to tbo ritxOibity o£ carrying them inio e::ecutiou.

a Loo&a T^.assaci'lok. — A storekeeper at Airowtovi'a, who h:.B ht>[<l nov«ral public pos^itioos of honour

• id import x see, aniongQt which waa tho Maynrsbip of A'-in.^liD vii, wr.B, all til- 1 last a'.tting of the Red lent M-vgistraJe'e Ocui-t, commi ted f x trial for feloniously obUimug thnw aordsu, the property of ono George 7.. M'Doup;><ll. a ,\ouniy tuau of abouS 19 yesra of age. T:.o eviil-.ace disoloacd tbo very loose way some peo-;->V. h-vf of tnujßcciut'g business, but as tho case is jubjudice, iliia m, of courso, not the place to s n into tho iiCiir. The accused, H. Graham, was admitt&d to jail iii hni own Eurt-tycf £200 and two othufs of £100 cash, t> appn-.i aft Wio n- :cb criminal Bi&tiDga of the Supreme Coi'W, at; Duueoiti. State of the y oads — Tho recant wet weathey haa (,f&!.cd tho irnadd of thn distinct pretty soveroly, and it is gratifying w notice that all the newer and moro cjfily works h&vo sfcaod the trial successfully, no vory lienvy caraitft-a having rs-u.tcd in any one casu. '/'•era te, h.-wo^or, ono road in this district which apvcatati) bo >-hsnicfu!l.v neglected, and that ii tho I orbion of tho ?o>d from Quoanstowa' to Arro-vtown, biXwrfii the Arthur's PGiut bridge and Miller's Flat. I- id iv mnuy p! wjoj .i quut»!iitee,~or very little bettor : awl i! >t ovlf do«sa Ihe present state of the road i' j uioa-'ly aSect traffic, but Mao haa other ill, aad. pu.-hj.p-j otii 1 "/orse, effects. A !arp,e number of ehi'dren who attend Mii'er's FlaS School hwe to pass silonir ''bis i>ort)oa of tha road, siud it they go to a^hool at all thoy can hardly reach there without we's feet, and have consequently to Bit for four or five houM every day— moat of them stay at line Bchool dusitiir (ha dinuo.- hour — witib. their Jeefc Iv a nnrabud condition. Fay their sake alone somothiog should bo <!one in tho matter ; svod aa gravel is clone at hand, ift i 3 but reasonable to a.-k that the worat portions of the road should be put in such o edition that they may bo marfe payable in all kinds of v/oathor. While en ttiH SubjecS it may also bo pointed out that thoro is ?. ds .igeroua (jap at tbe Quecnstown end ot! tho Arthur's Point bridge, where anyone unacquainted with !he road may easily come to grief by driving through it o i atiy dark night, and being proninilated ho&dlong Into the Shotover Eivor st a point whoro nothing shors of certain death awaits him. A few pound« would put up a short fence to make <,his vn s is»htly gapsecuje. Changes —Never in the pluvious bl-.tory of tliia district have Shero beon ao a'any changes iv \,ha hotel business ao aro taking p'acj a*i the present tioic. At Ciusenatov/n somo changes and innovptiojn axe in coufdc nt ucnsujinifrtiori, while a: &vvo\vto\/n all ),ho existing hotels aro cbr*n 4 >ing hr.nda. -What the meanin?: °* the causes oi thceo chanft.'u aro rencwis to bo seen. On^ thing, howevar, ia quits clear, aud that is that tho dvincf out of ihe goJd-ditjgor, and tho raids of tho Biue Ribbon and pirnilar xuovemoutei, r-xe working wonderful changes, which are in no small dcfCßo assißt3d by bad times, nid consequent scarcity oJ money. Tub Weather continue! in its unsettled elr-ii. During tbe uw pa^t days we have had a genuine taste of win or, aud skaters were beginning to look to their skatoa ; but a change has sti'l further postponed thdr us>e, and the anticipated Son on the akatcj. Both at Qucenstown and. ArVowtown thcro aro splendid dnmß, which afEord excellent sjiozt after a woek'o continuous froar.

New Discoveries —The discover ' of coil Boaiag at Cardrona, on tbo western tlopa of Mount Crißsl, and at the Kawnrau, is rfpotted, bufe no definite particu. lara as to tho actual value ot these now di&covoriea nro to hand.