HEAD OF THE LAKE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2128, 23 October 1896, Page 2

HEAD OF THE LAKE.

(From our own Correspondent.) Glenorchy, 22nd Oet

A public meeting to consider the advisability of holding sports at Christmas, and of reviving the Caledoniau Society, was held last Saturday week, when it was decided to form an Athletic Club, and to hold the* sports on Monday, December 28th—to be followed by a ball the same evening. Great interest is being taken in the affair, as is evinced by the fact that nearly £25 has already been subscribed towards the fund.

A party of four men, backed I understand by a Melbourne Syndicate, are at present up the Dart, the object being 10 ascertain the depth of the gold-bearing wash there, and if it is possible to work a dredge—if not, to find out whether it can be worked by hydraulic sluicing. If investigations are favourable, machinery is to be put on the ground at once. The reef claims which were pegged off and applied for last autumn, —viz. the Inviucible and the Amy—have not yet started work. The Amy I understand is waiting for the surveyors, and the company are ready to start immediately it is surveyed. With regard to the Invincible, I understand that if the holders do not soon start, steps will be taken to make them—either to man their ground or foifeit it, as another company is ready to start work it Whilst on mining I am asked by a digger in the 12-Mile to contradict a report that has somehow got about, and which says that he has made a big rise lately. The party admits getting a little, but very little, and nothing near the amount he is have got. A meeting of the Library Committee was called for last Saturday week, but owing to unavoidable absence of the secretary (Mr J. M. Plato) it was postponed four weeks. Mr James George, the Government candidate for the Wakatipu electorate, is announced to open the campaign here on Monday next. Mr George is a very warm favourite here, and if this place can be taken as a sample of the whole electorate, the other candidates have no possible chances at all, the general opinion being that ab Mr George has made a good County Councillor, so he will, if given the opportunity, make a good Parliamentary representative.