ARROW RIVER.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 275, 8 May 1873, Page 6

ARROW RIVER.

(From our owu, Correspondent.) In my last letter I made mention of matter of merely local interest, but as it teaches a lesson on the morals of politics, I beg your leave to expatiate still further upon it. To understand the case thoroughly, you must know that this district possesses in its City of the Lake i.e. Queenstown, a great drag situated in a remote corner of the Lake and district, equally removed from the locations of the farmers and the miners. It is continually scheming, tricking the Government into all sorts of foolish games, and trying to advance its own interests at the expense of the reut of the district. The latest attempt of this kind has been a bridge at Kawarau Falls —out of place as Queenstown itself, and, like it, stuck in a corner, out of the way of all traffic, or where there is likely to be any for the next century ; no roads on either side of the river, and no land to open up or to settle upon on the south bank, which it would connect with Queenstown. The object aimed at is chiefly to increase the produce of the Brunswick Flour Mill, situate at the Knsvarau Falls, and give Queenstown easier access by way from Dunedin than Arrowtown ; thus placing the latter town at a considerable and unfair disadvantage. To accomplish this, the government is asked to spend the small trifle of £4000 or £6000 on a road along the base of a mountain which rises in abrupt precipices to a height of nearly 10,000 feet; and to show the disinterestedness of the movers in the scheme, it needs only to be mentioned that they (the movers), will erect the bridge at Kawarau Falls at their own cost. It will be highly } instructive to learn to what extent fche Government can be fooled by influential men, scheming for their own benefit. The Commission of Inquiry into the utilization of the pastoral land of the district, have not yet finished their labors, but public feeling which was raised to a considerable pitch when the Commission was first {spoken of has been allayed, it having been whiopered abroad that the Commission is not in favor of selling the district in blocks for depasturing.