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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 1, 3 November 1869, Page 2

p BOROK MATTHEWS, NURSERYMAN, SEEDSMAN, AND 9EKD-GROWER, Mokay Place, Dunkdjn, Tioga to intimate that he has constantly on hand Agricultural and Garden Seeds Fruit, Forest, ami Ornamental Troes in season Uurdon 'Cools Pnming Gloves Flower Pots, &c. &e. PROSPECTUS OF TUE CROMWELL ARGUS AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE T7IOR some time past it has been felt by the JL residents of th« Cromwell District and its neighbouring Gold-fields that the progress of this portion of the Colony has not been commensurate with the extent of its natural resources. This has been largely attributed to the want of an organ expressing current public opinion, and capable of mnking known the value of these Gold'fields and their requirements. Previous efforts, however, to establish a local journal have failed, and the district has thus been compelled to rely for the expression of its wants upon newspapers representing other places. The result, from Various causes, has proved eminently unsatisfactory. Encouraged by the support tendered them, the undersigned are now prepared to meet the wishes of the people of the above Gold-fields, and Till, on Wednesday, the 3rd November, publish the first mimbtr of the " Cromwell Arous." The journal will be liberal in tone. Believing that party politics are a mistake in a Province already over-governed, its object will be to cause greater attention to be paid to the development of the resources of the inland districts, and especially of the important one it will specially represent. Free from party iniluences, and ui - trammeled by obligations to any one class, it will pursue an independent career. It will demand, as an act of justice, better treatment of the country districts in the future. It has been too long the habit for our legislators to consider Dunedin as the Province, and that city's most capricious wants have been supplied at the expense of *uch districts as this one. Until a change from so prejudiced a course takes pl.ice, this journal will not cease in uttering its protest against a line of conduct unsound in principle and vicious in its action. It will also be a part of the mission of the "Aitaus" to advocate a reduction of the special taxation that presses so heavily upon the mining community. Believing that with reduction of taxation and the opening up of the lands, much of the gold (capital) lost to the colonies might be retained in it, as well as ! those who procure it, the paper will necessarily further these views, as well as the important and co-relative one of the establishment of native industries. A journal of the kind we propose to supply requires an extensixe circulation and to be supported in its advertising department. As we | step in to meet the wishes of the community, we j expect on their part they will perform their porj tion of the contract, and" thus beget a connection j that will be mutually advantageous. Our terms j for advertisements will lie moderate, so that we I shall offer in this respect no obstacle to the imj plied bargain made with us by the public. The subscription will be Cs. per quarter ; by post, 7s. Our plant is extensive, and is repV.e with I every requisite for executing job printing of all j descriptions in a superior style. We have dej voted great care to this branch, and have lately , added a large stock of new and elegant type to ' the jobbing plant. MATTHEWS & FEXWICK.

OUR EXCHANGE FILES. PROPRIETORS of Newspapers which hare hitherto been on the TUAPEKA PRESS exchange list, arc respectfully requested to forward copies of their journals as usual, addressed to the Editor of the CROMWELL ARGUS, Cromwell, Otago, which Journal mil in future be punctually forwardei to them. MATTHEWS <£• FEX WICK, Proprietors. TO THE INHABITANTS OF CROMWELL AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS. bey to call the particular attention of our readers to our leading article, which explains the reason of our first issue coming out as a kind of reprint of the last number of the " Tuapelca Press." Although unavoidable, circumstances prevent our presenting isny local news, toe are glad that the eloquent ancf instructive lecture recently delivered by the Hon, Major Richardson at Lawrence took place when it did, as the lengthy review of it which appears in another column will maker it/> to some extent for the absence of neics- interesting to the inhabitants of the Dunstan district. MATTHEWS d: FEN WICK.