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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 24, 27 April 1870, Page 5

BcT.tli is fast thinning the number of settlers , farmed the pioneer body of Nelson in 1842, it U;a week has witnessed the departure of a ny worthy and highly respected member of lK ' l, y- Mr John Nixon, at the,ripe age of ’• and who therefore must have been 52 years Wwhou ho landed here, upwards of 28 years from the Lord Auckland—one of the three a h'P3 which first left England for Mel- “• %- ; r N T ixon had sca-oe a day’s illness in his n S ute, until the natural frame wore itself out, into avtthin a shorj noriod of his death he was ;‘ 0 , rab .ly active, his creek and venerable figure •wienng him nlwciya

By Electric Telegraph. . (From oUr own Correspondent.) Dunedin, Tuesday, 4.30 p.m. The following is the state of the polling at the election for a member for the House of .Representatives for the District of Caversham : MTndoo 146 Cutten 71 Graham 16 Robertson 9 The Provincial Council was opened today. The Superintendent blames the Government for .the delay which has taken place in the starting of the Olutha Railway Works. He states that the present immigration arrangements require £17,000 a year, and recommends that for three years £25,000 per annum be appropriated for the purpose of bringing immigrants direct by steam, the passage only taking some fifty days. In reviewing the year’s progress His Honor stated that two hundred and forty new agricultural holdings had been taken up during the year ; that the Escorts showed the highly satisfactory increase of 10,000 ounces over the preceding year ; and that there was also an increase of £6OOO in the Customs revenue. The Road Board expenditure is stated at £30,000.