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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 187, 10 June 1873, Page 5

Mr MacKellar elsewhere gives notice of election meetings throughout the week.,

Pressure of other matter this week prevents the publication of our second article on the new Mining Bill.

t' We are requested to direct attention to advertised sale of business premises, stock ■in-trade, fee., at ( 'arrickton to morrow' (Wednesday), at two o’clock p. m.

Mr J. L. Gillies is expected to.arrive in Cromwell tn-morrow (Wednesday) evening, when he will address the electors in regard to his candidature for the Superintendency. The first assembly of the Cromwell Quadrille Club, held at Kidd’s Hall on the evening of the sth inst., was in every way successful; and the Club may now be regarded as one of the most promising of our social institutions. The nomination of candidates for this district (K.awarau) is lixed for inst. ; and the poll is to take place op [the 21st —the Saturday following. A list of the pollingplaces appears in our advertisement columns.

The Town Clerk requests us to inform the citizens of, Cromwell, that all those who make default in payin'* their rates before the 14th inst. will he disfranchised, so far as Municipal elections are concerned, for the ensuing twelve months.

In another place will be found a report of the business transacted at the first sitting of what may be termed the Dunstan district Land Court, held at Clyde on the 4th inst., and presided over by W. L. vSimpson, Esq., District Land Officer.

“Anti-Bunkum,” of Queenstown, under date June 2. sends a letter addressed, per favour of ns, to “Gander,” and headed “ The Coming Election.” We cannot see that it is marked by sufficient of either humorous or sensible writing to recommend its publication.

Hr Colclongh intimates by advertisement his intention to enter upon his electioneering tour by visiting the Nevis to-morrow, and thereafter addressing meetings of electors in .Other parts of the district. Places and dates of Tieeting are specified in the advertisement.

At Logan’s battery, Pipeclay, on Thursday last, a crushing of 86 tons was completed for the John Bull Company, with the very handsome result of 120 ozs. of gold. A dividend of £23 per share has since been made payable. We congratulate the company on the unqualified success which has hitherto attended the development of their claim, and sincerely hope they may obtain equally satisfactory returns in the future. The John Bull may now fairly be classed among the best-paying claims on the Garrick Range. A cleaning-up for the Caledonian (Mr T. Stephenson’s claim) took place at the Royal Standard battery, Quartzville, on Friday afternoon. The battery had been running about three weeks, during which time 220 tons of stone were put through. The yield of gold obtained was 224 ozs. 7 dwts., —the largest cake, we believe, that has yet come in from the Garrick this year. The previous crushing from this claim averaged 24 dwts. to the ton, but the ston'e was picked, and the quantity crushed was much less. The battery is again at work for the Caledonian and it is intended to have another clean-]n?-up about the end of the mouth, in time to send the gold down by next Escort. The stone from which the above-mem ioned yields were obtained was taken from the main level, at a depth of 200 feet below the surface. Mr Stephenson has at present seven men employed, two of these working the night-shift. Although the thickOcss of the reef varies from six inches to as many met. the supply of stone is abundant, and the ground is very easily wrought. Near the centre °f the claim, a chamber has been cut in from the jpam tunnel, and a prospecting-shift sunk about ™rty feet, with good prospects all the way down, joe Caledonian is by far the best-paying claim ’o the district. The expenses of getting out *tone, cartage, and crushing amount to about oirtv shillings a ton, so that ample margin is eft for profit. Mr Stephenson well deserves “9 slice of luck that has fallen to his share.

The next sitting of the Supreme Court i 4 to be held in Dunedin on Monday, July 7.

It is probable that if Mr Pyke’s resignation turn out to be really accepted by the Government, no new appointment will be made. M r Warden Robinson is once more to take charge of St. Bathans, Mr Warden Carew being removed to the Dunstan, and Warden Simpson to Tuapeka.—Mount Ida Chronicle.

The following are late cablegrams:—The motion for the disestablishment of the Church of England was lost in the House of Commons by a majority of nearly 300.—The evidence in the Tichborne case is damaging to the Claimant. —The French Government were defeated by the Legitimist and Imperialist votes, the result of the division being 480 against 344. This is virtually a defeat of the Republican Constitution. M. Thiers at once resigned, and Marshal M‘Mahon was immodiately elected President by 390 votes. —The are grave difficulties between the Governments of Russia and Turkey.—The Russians continue to advance in Turkestan. A large body of Khivans are preparing to meet them.—The Pope is better.—A great lock-out of miners has taken place in Cumberland.

A meeting for the purpose of taking steps to form a Gymnasium in Cromwell was held last Wednesday evening, in the Town Hall. The attendance was not equal to expectations ; but those present entered into the matter with praiseworthy enthusiasm, and formed themselves into a “Cromwell Gymnastic Club.” Between fifteen and twenty names have been placed on the list as working members, at an entrance fee of 10s. 6d. each ; and as the proceeds from this source are reckoned sufficient to purchase the necessary materials, it has been decided to push on the affair as speedily as possible. Besides the working members, several gentlemen have joined as honorary members, and the movement is promised the support of a good few of the townspeople. A meeting is to be held again this evening, when a full attendance is requested, with the view of proceeding to the election of the necessary officers, and the transaction of other business. We direct attention to an advertisement in another place.

Mr Anthony Trollope, in his new work on Australia and New Zealand, while describing his tour through Otago, notices that all colonial towns have passed or are passing through three different stages in housebuilding. The first is the canvas stage ; the second, the galvanised iron ; and the third, the wooden. Most of the gold-fields towns in Otago, he says, have readied the galvanised iron stage ; and speaking of th s description of building, he says :—“ The rooms formed of it, of course, are small, and every word uttered in the house can be heard throughout it, as throughout a shed put up without divisions. And yet the owners and frequenters of these iron domiciles seem never to be aware of the fact. As I lay in bed in one of these metal inns on the road, I was constrained to hear the private conversation of my host and hostess, who had retired for the night. *So this is Mr Anthony Trollope?’ said the host. The hostess assented but I could gather clearly from her voice that she was thinking more of her back hair than of her visitor. ‘ Well,’ said the host, ‘ he must be a fool to come travelling in this country in such weather as this.’ Perhaps, after all, the host was aware of the peculiarity of his house, and thought it well that I should know his opinion. He could not have spoken any wows with which at that moment I should have been more prone to agree.” The Presbytery of Dunedin met on the ■tth, in the First ('hurch. The principal husinees transacted was that of a reference from the Kirk •Session of Knox Church, in which Mr John Logan was reported to have been on the platform of the Queen’s Theatre during the delivery of lectures by Messrs Dunn and Peebles. The reference was sustained by the Rev. Dr Stuart, moderator of Knox Church session. Mr Logan appeared in pei son on his own behalf. The Presbytery found as follows ; —That Mr Logan, a member of the Deacons’ Court of Knox Church, by the public and private countenance he gave to Messrs Peebles and Dunn, on the occasion of their Sabbath evening lectures iu the Queen’s Theatre, at which doctrines were promulgated antagonistic to the Christian Faith, thereby causing a grievous scandal to the injury of religion generally, and the Presbyterian Church in particular; and further having considered the written statement given to the session by Mr Logan, expressing his conviction that Messrs Peebles and Dunn were doing a great Christian work, and labouring hard and disinterestedly, with God’s help, to elevate mankind, and again declaring them to be eminently Christian men ; further? that it is duly given, by the evidence contained in the documents sent up by the session, that Messrs Peebles and I 'unn had promulgated doctrines directlyantagonistic to the Christian Faith and to the doctrines of the Presbyterian Church ; and whereas, in answer to questions put to him by members of this Presbytery, Mr Logan expressed his inability to distinguish between the Divinity of Christ and that of Moses or other men, thereby has given evidence of nnsoundness in the Faith, as believed and taught in this Church, and set forth in the standards thereof; this Presbytery resolves to depose, as they hereby do depose, Mr Logan from the deaconship, and further suspend him from Church privileges until repentance is expressed to the satisfaction of the session. ” — Star.