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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 24, 27 April 1870, Page 4

We are reliably informed that a parti in Queenstown have determined to introduce a second journal into that town, and that thi necessary funds have been raised, or are forth coming, to supply the impccuniosity of a well known journalist. If Cromwell loses its Guar dian angel, a portion of the Queenstown peoph will have some voice in the matter. Timl eliGcts great wonders, and we hope when nexi we greet our whilom contemporary that honestj of purpose, integrity, and greater manliness oi spirit will be displayed, instead of the reverse as exhibited in Cromwell, otherwise our Queens : town neighbours will have made a sorry bargain.

We believe there is every probability ol Mr R. B. Baird being appointed Gold Receive! and Clerk to the Court at Cromwell. We how such is the case, as Mr Baird is well qualified for the position, and his appointment will be i great boon to the inhabitants of the district' Wc trust the Government will also erect a Courl House suitable to the requirements of the place!

Onr correspondent nt the Nevis write? as follows : —After Mr Warden Pyke’s repoij regarding the Nevis—recently published in thi II Uness any notes from your owu corresponded would be at a considerable discount. 1 suspecj the Warden gave such a flattering description o the district as a sort of a sop in the pan for hi! own shortcomings. It is wonderful how he oh tained so much agreeable news in the short timi his visit occupied. Many strangers have hew this way seeking work, but they only meet wilt disappointment, as employment is not to be oh tabled in the Nevis except by chance. Men whj can bear the expense and delay of prospecting may succeed; but without means, labour alon< will not avail, as credit is not so easily obtained as formerly,

Quito a number of miners—Enropeat and Chinese—have passed through Cromwell dm ing the week, bound for Wakatip and Cardrom, Three important sales by auction tala place to-morrow, at the auction mart of Mr Vi. J. Barry. iho whole of the valuable mining property and other effects owned by the late Mi Garrett will be offered at twelve o’clock, bj order of the Curator of Intestate Estates. Ai the conclusion of the sale Mr Barry will sub. Mit for public competition a seventh share ia the Aurora Co. ’a claim and mining plant; and afterwards, an eighth share in the Victoria Co.'s Lease, and two fractional shares in the Goldea Crown Claim, will bo offered for sale. Tbs valuable nature of these properties should attract a large attendance, a

We see by the Wakatip Mail that the brewery of Messrs Surman & Davis, Queenstown, was to hwo commenced operations last Saturday. W e congratulate our Wakatip friends on the establishment of another new industry in their district.

The people of Wakatip intend celebrating the opening of the Shotover Bridge (on or about the 10th of May) in a manner worthy of the oci casion. At a public meeting held in Queenstown' last week, it was decided to have a grand public ceremony. A free banquet is to be given for a' thousand persons, and a ball is to take place in the evening at Queenstown. Special invitations are to be issued to his Honor the Superintendent, the Secretary of Lands and Works, and the Mayors of Cromwell, Clyde, and Alexandra. A large and influential committee, consisting of the Mayor and Council of Queenstown and all the Principal residents of the Lakes district, has been elected to carry out the programme, and the celebration is to be carried with great eclat. The Wellington correspondent of the Oamam Times states that “thoohjs.s. Taranaki is now ly ing alongside the wharf, presenting her old beautiful appearance, apparently undamagei by her 13 months submersion. With her masts and spars in, her deck trim, ami her sides tastefully painted, she looks quite a now boat. Docs not Wellington deserve some credit for this?” A late Wellington paper says: Wo are indebted to Mr IT. Bunny for the following interesting statistics of 100 wethers which lie i.atciy sent to the Wairarapa Boiling-down Establishment Heaviest sheep weighed 97lhs; lightest ditto, GSlbs ; average weight of the 100, 771bs ; amount of tallow, 303311)3. For the legs he obtained Is 2.1 cadi, and the skins are wordi Is Gd. Tho value of each sheep was—3os .tallow, at 4d per lb, 10s 2d ; logs, 2a 4d ; skins, after deductings expenses of boiling-down, 6JI total 13*.

Tn one of the most extensive of the agriiltural districts of Otago—Tokoraairiro—there published an eight-paged newspaper called the 'race Herald ; and for unintolligibility, id typography, and wretched punctuation, jmbined with a supremo contempt for Liudlcy [array and the rules of English composition, ijs specimen of our newspaper literature will, ♦'think, carry off the palm against any other Jifnal in New Zealand—or out of it. It is absoitely painful to wade through the immense uantity of bad English that is every weqk irved out to the unhappy subscribers, and we ave often wondered that some of its corresponp.nts have not made a special request to the liter that their communications might have id privilege of being occasionally made readable y the introduction of the necessary punctuaon marks, even if no regard were p lid to the locals” and leading articles which appear in lie journal. As one out of the many choice ieces we might select from the last number of the mmal in question to hand, we pick the followig twenty-four lines, to be read all in a breath : “ With last issue commenced the seventh year f our existence ; it therefore becomes us to imrove such an occasion by recalling the past, and insidering the probable future that lies before s, with a view to profit by former experiences i the onward career which the ‘ Herald ’ has cer pursued since the date of its first publication, ml which has since continued to characterise our regress, which has never been surrounded by nro cheering prospects than at present, as doing the past month our subscription list has een more largely increased than during any one 1011 th since our commencement, while other grocable symptoms of an increasing popularity nd general acceptance are not a wanting, our iroulation having, in fact, become so extensive hit hand labor cannot much longer accomplish nr increasing demand, and the introduction of team power will, ere long, be rendered necessary i order to enable us to overtake the production f the ‘ Herald ’ on the morning of publication o time for post, as, unfortunately, from this m t our last issue failed to catch several of the nil bags of that day.” i’e strongly recommend the proprietor of the hice Herald to engage a suitable editor if the bove is a specimen of his present literary chief’s iroduction, and also to engage a qualified staff f compositors, before he launches out into the rand steam enterprise which he deems so invitable.

Mr Robert Grieve, manager of a flaxaill at the Kaikorai, near Dunedin, committed nioide on the 19 th inst. by hanging himself rom the roof of his own house. He had made .loop of a silk scarf, a piece of rope being fasened to this, and suspended by some scantlings -love the doorway. The deceased was found in state of nudity, his feet partly testing on a loor mat, and behind was a chair off which he evidently jumped. At an inquest held beoreMrT. M. Hocken the following day, the jury eturned a verdict to the effect that deceased if committed suicide by hanging himself rbilst in a state of temporary insanity. Prom the Daily Timas we learn that here is now on view at the shop of Mr Hislop, eTslhr, Princes-street, a presentation made by esidents in Southland to Mr T. K. Weldon, the lommissioner of Police. It is a clock with a ass of solid black marble inlaid with green narble, 23 inches in height, and 20 inches wide it the base, and has a remarkably neat appearnee. A silver plate let into the case bears the allowing inscription : “ Presented to T. K. Mdon, Esq., Commissioner of Police, Southall, on the occasion of his leaving the province or Otago, as a token of the esteem he has [lined during seven years’ residence in the probee, as an efficient public officer and a gentlenan. ”

A raining party, under the management I Mr W. Fox, started from Queenstown last Thursday morning for the purpose of prospecting he country between the head of Lake Wakatip >nil Martin’s Bay. At the election of councillors for Lake ifard, Queenstown, on Tuesday, the 19th inst., he two candidates (Messrs M‘Guineas and hmphell) polled twelve votes gich. As one of he votes for Mr Campbell was informal, Mr ‘l'Guiness was declared elected.— Wakatip Mail The Evening Star is responsible for the allowing announcement “ The prospectus of ' new bank has been issued. It is to be conIncted upon the Scottish principle, on a sound, udicions, and liberal system, under the title of he Dunedin and Provincial Banking Company, -united. The promoters consider that the esiblishment of a bank prepared to give special ccommodation to farmers, minors, and squatera, in the same spirit of liberality and on the me terms as are accorded to the mercantile onimunity, ia an acknowledged want in the rovince ; and that the establishment of a bank n such principles cannot but be attended with «ne!it to the community. The shares have fixed at £lO, ‘ with a view of enabling the vluatrial classes to identify themselves with ho monetary interests of the country. ’ ” An Auckland paper states that a larger aantity of gum ia now corning to Auckland fun was ever brought before. ‘ The reason of m is that a great number of persons who were tew months ago seeking their fortunes at the tnmes, are now steadily at work gum-digging, iiio.i th C y find to be much more profitable, fe iV; f toio3 not hold out such a chance of a 'pid fortune.