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Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 46, 28 September 1870, Page 4

A meeting of Committee of the Cromwell Jockey Club is announced to be bold at the Junction Commercial, Hotel on Friday evening next, for tho purpose of fixing the date of the annual races and for other business. The Mount Ida Spring Race Meeting is to be. Mi on the Bth Ootober.

Wo have been requested to direct attention to a notice signed by the Secretary of the Building Committee, Kawarau Gorge, announcing a special service in the new house (or hall) on Sunday next, 2nd October, at half-past three o’clock p.m. The Rev. Mr Drake will preach on the occasion. A collection will be made, to be applied to the payment of a small debt remaining on the building. The room was intendrd for general purposes—religious, secular, and educational ; to be used as a reading-room, library, or for any other movement that might suggest itself as proper and suitable. We hear it is intended by the people at the Gorge to obtain, if possible, the establishment of a side-school ; and the new building, from its central position, recommends itself to them for this purpose also. We hope the Sunday service will be a success. The psalmody, under the leadership of Mr W. H, Whetter, is in preparation; and help from other quarters is expected. From the known liberality of the Gorge people, we doubt not the collection will put the building out of debt and out of danger. We could wish that every township had a public building as commodious, accessible, and wide in the range of its application. The monthly Escort arrived here from Queenstown on Saturday afternoon, and left for Clyde on Sunday morning. The amount of gold sent down from the lake was 2300 ounces. From some cause or other, no gold was transmitted from Cromwell by this Escort. Collins’ Variety Troupe performed at Kidd’s Hall on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, and at Bendigo on Thursday. On each occasion the attendance was numerous, and on Friday night the hall was crowded. The troupe consists of Mr J. Collins, champion dancer and negro delneator ; Miss Rowland (Mrs Collins), whose forte lies in portraying Irish female characters ; and tire Young American, a clever tumbler, juggler, and performer on the slack-rope. The performances gave general satisfaction to all who witnessed them. The troupe left for Arrowtown and Queenstown on Monday. The Dunstan Jockey Club have issued the programme for their next annual meeting, to be held on Thursday and Friday, 2nd and 3rd February, 1871. On Monday, a man named John Brady, alias Bray, was brought up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, before his Worship the Mayor, charged with being a rogue and a vagabond. He was remanded till to-day. Sub-Inspector (I. F. Percy, who has been stationed at Lawrence for the last two years, has been transferred to Clyde in the room of SubInspector Dalgloish. Sergeant-major Moore takes charge at Tuapeka. We observe from the New Zealand Gazette that Bondix Hallenstein, Esq., Mayor of Queenstown, hrs been re-appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Colony. It will be observed by an advertisement in our present issue that an auction sale of cattle is to be held at Goodger’s yards on Thursday, 6th October. We are informed that the cattle are of a very superior description, having been selected from the herds of the most famous stockbreeder in the Province of Canterbury. The auctioneer (Mr W. J. Barry), has also been instructed by the owner, Mr J. Towan, to offer another mob for sale at the Nevis on the Monday following, viz., the 10th October. v Brilliant and beautiful displays of the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, have been witnessed here during the past few nights. We are requested to call the attention of the District Road Engineer—although we are not quite sure that the matter comes within the scope of that officer’s functions—to the dangerously dilapidated condition of the “chair,” an I ropes attached thereto, at Dead Man’s Point. The Collins Variety Troupe announce their intention of giving an entertainment at the Bannockburn Hotel on Thursday (to-mor-row) evening. ■ The Cromwell Company’s last, crushing yielded, we are informed, 341 ounces. This was a clearing-up crushing, the stuff hiving been taken from every part of the reef, and consisting of about 180 tons. The next clcaiiing-np is expected to take place on Saturday week. The last issue of the Lake Wakaiip Mail contains an advertisement announcing the intended publication of a new journal at Queenstown, to be called the Lake Herald. The projector is Mr Joseph Mackay, proprietor of the Bruce Herald and The Otago Almanac. It is not for us to express an opinion as to whether a second newspaper is required at Queenstown ; but we may venture to assert, without fear of contradiction, that since its recent enlargement, the Mail has attained a standard of excellence which an opponent will find it hard to surpass. At a meeting of the Waste Land Board hold on the 21st inst., Mr John Richards’s application for a ferry site for the proposed new punt over the Kawarau, above Stewart’s Ferry, was referred to the Secretary for Land and V/ arks.

An adjourned meeting of persons favourable to the formation of a Cricket Club was held in the Town-hall on Wednesday evening. Thu matter was warmly taken up, and it was resolved that a Club should be at once organised. Messrs Talboys, Foote, Fraer, Grierson, Barnes, Fenwick, and Ballard were elected as a committee of management; a number of members were enrolled ; and it was agreed that a supply of the requisite cricketing materials should be ordered from Dunedin. The people of Cardrona may look for a considerable addition to their Chinese population in the course of a few days. Under the heading, “A Lesson for the Unemployed,” the Evening Star of a recent date says :—“ The following facts illustrate the completeness of the organisation of Chinese immigration, and the precision and energy with which it is carried out. Fifty or sixty Chinamen arrived by the Claud Hamilton from Melbourne, and were landed on the Jetty by the harbour steamer on the 17th inst. From the Jetty, without waiting a moment, they proceeded at a trot to Mr G. F. Reid’s door, in StafTord-street. They there inquired for a waggon for the Cardrona. One was immediately supplied, and within an hour after the order was given, they had taken their seats, and with their luggage were on their way up the country. Men who know so well the value of time will not be found wasting it by listening to frothy harangues from men who like talking better than working, and who try to live upon the gullibility of others.” A writer in the Taapeka Times states, from personal knowledge, that “some time ago a gentleman residing at Coal Creek journeyed on a horse, constantly worked, and not trained to racing, from that place to Clyde and back—a distance of sixty miles—in six hours. This, allowing an hour for several stoppages (which can be authenticated), would give a speed of twelve miles an hour.” We happened to hear this statement from the lips of the gentleman (Mr Robert Ay ling) who performed the feat, and have no reason to doubt its correctness. What renders Mr Ayling’s performance the more remarkable is the fact that the journey was undertaken during the night.