Our local posL and telegraph officer is heing worked to death by a beggarly Government. He has no messenger or assistant. Irrespective of that, it is a ureat inconvenience to • the public, no matter how pressing their business is, to have to wait half an hour till the officer runs, perhaps to the far end of the iowd, to deliver a telegraphic message, and it is oo u?e for people in other places to send an " urgent " telegram to Ross till a proper assistant has been appointed.
There have been a few ordinary ex tended claims applied for lately about the Clearwater and Donoghue's district; W. Neilson, three acres ; M. Scanlan, two acres ; J- Clarke, three acres ; and A, Black, four acres. Tho3e claims are pretty well situated in the midst of all the leases that have been applied for htely, and I should think that ground which will pay a small party of miners ought to pay a company well. The manager of the Alpine Company is making a good start with the work--, tenders having been mvi ed for the cod* struction of thirty. nine chains of a water race.
The Mont DOr claim is not working full time lately, on account of the scarcity of water, and the long drought i 3 affecting every claim in the district.
