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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 2, 10 November 1869, Page 3

The Knglish mail arrived in Dunedin i on.£jatiirelay last. We give a summary of Urn ' our last page. learn from a reliable source that ! Baird, chairman of the Board ox Wardens : Wakatip District, has been appointed I ■*f|6ldij|lcceiver at Cromwell. The want of a ■Cfald’iiecoiver at Cromwell has long been fell, ! hbtVpte appointment is one which the import- I "atiCQ « the district fully warrants, y| At a mooting of the Cromwell Town j Council, held on Wednesday evening last, an application from Messrs Matthews and Fenwick llidease the portion of section 1, block XXVII,, set apart by the Council for the purpose Kaiß&uraging the starters of a local newspaper, as received, and their application granted. [Considerable excitement was caused in Cromwell on Tuesday, the dud hist., by the amyil of Mr Colelough, of Cardrona, with a speoi-

mem of quartz thickly studded with fine gokb • tsebveved In Bendigo Cully, at a distance of yards froin the Aurora Co.’s claim. Experienced roofers in Cromwell, after an inspection of the stone, give, it as their opinion that it would yield at least tiUozs to the ton. Mr Colcloug ll Morins us that, while, oh a visit to Bendigo Griilly tlio pTcccding week, he dropped across some broken quartz, in which, upon examination, he could detect gold : and thinking lie was in the immediate neighborhood of a reef, he at once sat to, work to got the ground prospected. The . liras struck on the ‘2nd hist., at a very short distance from the surface, and the specimens : Svhich slr Colclough brought into Cromwell were : broken* MV. It runs parallel with the Aurora reef, and is consequently entirely distinct from the latter, thus making the third lino of reef struck in the gully. The discovery is causing great excitement, owing to the extraordinary rich nature of the stone, and the ground on each side of Mr Colclough’s claim has been pegged off for a considerable distance.

Great inconvenience is'felt here for the | the want of a proper official distribution of duty | stamps, it being an impossibility to obtain any impressed stamped paper without sending to Clyde or Queenstown. We trust that the j Municipal Council will move in this, matter at i once, and recommend that the postmaster, Mr i Reekie, should he appointed to such office, so I that no further difficulty will occur in procuring stamps and impressed paper. | We understand that it is the intention | of the brethren of the mystic tie to establish a Maso.iie lodge, English Constitution, at Crom" | well. From what we can hear, such a lodge will be j a success, there being quite a number of Masons [ in the Cromwell district, and several gentlemen have expressed’ themselves desirous of becoming j acquainted with the mysteries and privileges of Freemasonry. In .January of the present, year there were 13,723 pcrsouti engaged in gold-mining in the colony nf Queensland. . j

- 1 """ 1 ■' -■■ ■ 1 s ±sssss ■' l sggs»jsttssgaagagJ • Tho discoverers of ihe reef lately found in Pipeclay Oully, Bannockburn, arc actively 1 engaged in testing the extent and quality of th I stone. So far as they have gone, they arc wel i satisfied with the general appearance "d the reef" . i The reef at Smith's Gully, in the same district i , .jyhich has been actively during th few weeks, also promises to turn out well. , 'the subjoined notice, which is ap k -roved j , of by most of the residents in this distriot, was , ‘ iSSWbd by Mr Warden Pyke on the Gth-inst. : “Notice is hereby given that in the event 0f.4 any share, or portion of a share, in any quartz i * claim held under protection certificate being ( sold, transferred, or publicly advertised for sale, ’ the certificate will immediately be cancelled, 1 and the holders of the claim will bo compelled | to put on the full number of men within twenty- I four hours thereafter, failing which the claim < will be forfeited. ” \ | Two shares (a fifth mid a sixth) in the ■ '

deep lead at Smith’s Gully, Bannockburn, were \ t recently sold for £SO each. The depth to which I the sinking has been extended is 100 feel, goo.j payable gold being obtained, with plenty of ground to work. The annual meeting for the election of j a committee of management for the Cromwell ,] Public Library will be held in the Council Cham- | t] hers, on Tuesday, the IGih hist., at 8 p.m. We are informed that a great scarcity of Is water exists at the Bannockburn at presen'. |p This want will, however, shortly be obviated, |e the shareholders in the reef lately’ discovered in it Pipeclay Gully bring about to bring in a large le race, the water in which will be available for the Jlo j miners in the district. This will admit of » ffl!> much larger area of ground bring worked, and Sa

the yield of gold from thr. do-Mrior will lie main- gf* rially increased. ||r 464 sections in the* township of Frank ton ;ire advertised to be offered at auction, in If' the survey office, Queenstown, on Thursday jp 11th inst., at noon, at an upset price of £2 per Jp 1 section. S' The shareholders In the reef at Butcher's H Gully, Alexandra, ou .Monday- last placed eight |F men on for the purpose of enabling them to rube ; a few tons of stone, with the intention of havin'- if . . . M)i it crushed, and ascertaining its paying capabili- Ytics. There is a shaft down to the depth of about B fifty feet, which was sunk by a miner a consider- |f able time ago ; but owing to an accident he was i| obliged to give up working in the shaft. t ha< || been lying neglected since that time, but as some | energetic men have taken it in hand, it will soon rh be ascertained whether it can be payably worked i>

or not. y. Another water Ixloo, commanding the >< banks of the Molynrax near Alecandra, is behi: f brought in from the (forge Creek, Several of d the business people of Alexandra have united <?' with .some working miners in this enterprise a 1' system which we think might be adopted with '% advantage to a greater extent than it at pruseut ° is in many mining districts of the I’roviniv.-. 1| The body of a man was found in tin- j Molvneux, near Welshman's Beach. Miller's ■■ a Flat, on Friday last. The body had evident! , j been in the water for a considerable time, as it , . 8 was man advanced stage oi decomposition. S Information was at once convevod to the Scrv guant of' Police at Te.viot, and an inquest wss j lield before Capt. Baldwin, J.P., on Monday £ last. We have not heard rite result of the inc quest. A quartz-reef was struck in Oonrov’s • Gully, near Alexandra, on Saturday last, gold being perceptible in the stone Application V was at once made for a prospectors claim. _ n By the lioods which recently occurred in t Victoria, property was destroyed at Ballarat to e the estimated amount of £OO,OOO. Many valuable claims were inundated. TVn men were sub- } merged in the Groat Junction Claim for two v days, but fortunately were rescued. Rain fell £ all over the colony for forty-eight hours, ami all f the country adjacent to the banks of the Yarra t suffered. i It is notified In the Government Adve;- I rising .Sheet that all unsold lands (exclusive cf c reserves) in the townships of Cromwell, Clyde, 1 Newcastle (junction of Ilawea and CJntha), f Alexandra, Pembroke (Wanaka Lake), Wake- 3 held, Gladstone (Hawea Lake), will be offered ; for sale by public auction, by Mr George, at the ■ Survey-Office, Clyde, on Tuesday-, the 23rd inst., ( at 12 o’clock noon. The injustice of selling sei - i tions in all these townships at Clyde is evident. i Why people should have to traverse the longdistance between these townships and Clyde we really do not understand. Wo consider it is exceedingly short-sighted policy on the part of the Government, as the prices realised will be merely nominal compared with what they would be if the sections were sold on the ground. The Government will almost lead us to believe that they- have a plethora of cash in the Treasury chest. It is also notified that all unsold lands (exclusive of reserves) in the townships of Arrowtown, Queenstown, Kingstown, and Glenorchy (head of V> akatip Lake), will lie offered for , by Mr -Spence, at. the Survey-Office, Queenstown, on Thursday, the 25th inst., at noon. A proclamation appears in tlin. Gazette of the 3rd instant, varying and altering the existing Licensing Districts of Queenstown, Clyde, Cromwell, and Balkans, and defining the boundaries of the new Licensing Districts of Queenstown, St Bat bans, Clyde, Blacks, and Cromwell. Seventy-four Maori prisoners recently triad and convicted of high treason at Wellington are to be scut to the gaol at Dunedin. The sen tenccs passed upon them vary from three to seven years. M c should imagine that Governor Caldwell will have a “crowded boose" on the arrival of Ids new boarders.