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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 48, 12 October 1870, Page 4

A severe storm of wind and dust prevailed throughout this district on Monday and yesterday. Towards dusk last evening the wind fell considerably, and a steady rain set in, with every likelihood of continuing for some time. The mailman reports a heavy fall of rain in tho Wakatip district during the last three or four days, and his statement is amply verified by the flooded state of the Kawarau, which has continued to rise rapidly since Saturday night. The Bye laws of the Corporation of Cromwell, adopted by the Town Council so long ago as the 20th January 18(51, were only gazetted on the 2Sth .September last. Mr David Blair, who has been long and favorably known in connection with tho Shotover Ferry Hotel, has sold his interest in that property to Mr Joseph Limhrick, and we arc informed that he purposes visiting tho homo country. The sale of Mr Blair’s stock and farming implements is to take place on Saturday, the 22nd igmt.

A general meeting of the CrounvoU Jockey Club was held at tbo Junction Coin- > mercial Hotel on tho 30th ult. The following I members were present, viz. : —Messrs Smltham i (Presi lent), Cowan, Liughuao, Preshaw, \V 1 Sh.anly, Pierce, Wrightson, Logan, Dawkins, i Harding, Dagg, and Freer (Hon. Sec). Mr 1 Smithain’s resignation of the office of Presi lent 1 ■was received an I aeceptel. Mr .). A. Prasha w I was then chosen to till the office. Mr 1. Eoughnau •, was elected Vico-President, and Mr Jolly as ■ Treasurer. A letter from Mr \V. Haven, saddler, i offering a sal lie an I bridle as a prize to be run for at the December Meeting, was real an I 1 ordered to be ackuowle Ige I with thanks. Mr 1 \V. limit's ace Mint for balance of purchase.money due on the (fraud Stand by the Club 1 , • was passed for payment. It was resolve 1 that the amount of stakes to be run for at the Annual Meeting be £.SJ J. \ programme was 1 arranged, and the meeting then adjourned. “The Otago and Southland Union Ant, 1870,” was proclaimed by his Excellency the Governor to coma into effect on Thursday list, the 6th iust. Southland, therefore, is no longer a Province : it became, on the date above mentions 1, a district of Otago, but it still retains the name of Southland. Under the fostering care of our Provincial Government, a prosperous future is anticipated for the re-united district, the people of which have, unfortunately, too long groaned un ler the burden of mismanaged Provincial institutions. The attention of owners of allotments in Arrowtown is directs I to a notice which appeared in the Provincial Government Gazette of sth inst., containing a list of Crown Grants now ready for issue at the Lanl 0 fije, Duuelin. A fine of sixpence per month is inflicted on persons failing to uplift their Crown Grants after the publication of the notice. A meUncholyand fatal accident occurred at Edwards’s Ferry, Kawarau River, about two o’clock on Monday afternoon. A man name 1 Parkins, said to be a new arrival from Victoria, left Clyde by the Queensmwn coach in the miming, an I in passing through Cromwell ho was observed to be the worse for liquor. Sergeant Cassels (to who u we are indehte 1 for the particulars of the accident) happened to bo going in the same direction on duty, and kept comoanv with the coach as far as the ffevis Ferry. There the p assen gers dined, and afterwards went across in tbs punt with the coach, brs Edwards an I Sergeant Cassels were stan ling at the door of the house when the pant reached the opp isite bank, and saw Parkins valk up the hill until he reached the sharp turn in the road about halfway up, when, instead of turning to the right, | he took the track leading to the left, which brought him to the top of a high cliff on the river bank. On reaching a point where the track becomes extremely narrow and dangerous, the unfortunate man was seen to trip on a sharp scone, when ha lost his balance, and fell headlong down a slope of about sixty feet, striking heavily against the rocks as he went down. From the foot of the slope there is a perpendicular cliff some eighty feet above the level of the river, and the spectators saw, avith a thrill of iurror, the donned man da she I from the sum ait of the precipice inti the ria-er below. Fir a few n meats the In ly -'isapoo ared. but afterwards cane 1 1 the surface and iloate I down the current, with the heal towards the stream, for so ue discanee, when it again sank an lavas seen ta > mire. If not kille lin his fall, the unfair, unate man must have been completely stunne I, for n i sign of life could be detente I in the bi ly while it remained in view. The -Sergeant inneliately gave the alarm, an I along with Mr Edwards, got into a boat and pr ices led tithe so it where the body lisv >» ared. Toe man’s hat was picked up, but they could find mo traces of the body, Thev .afterwards procure 1 a grappling-iron, and dragged the riverbe I for so ne distance, but all to no purpose. The following description of the decease I man’s appearance at the tine ha mot his death may assist in his i beatification Ah mt 35 years of age ; sft. I,Jin. in height; sallow complexion ; thin visage ; dark brown hair, cut short befiin 1; dresse I in -lark brown twee I coat, trousers, an I vest, with short Wellia gton b jots ; wore a watch, with steel Albert chain attached. The L iJcz Wi'cilip Mul reports that a miner name I Michael Hurley died sullenly at M atat ap-a river. Wan aka, a fe.v lays since. The mates of the decease I carrie I his remains to the Arrow, a distance of twenty-five miles over a rug'al m uintain track. The Dinner (air 11. Beetham) hel I an in quest on the bo ly, and the jury returnel a verdict of “ Died by the visitation of God.” A special meeting of the Town Council was hel I in the Dha nber on the evening of M >oday last, at which all the m rniers were present. Too Mayor state.! that it was his intention to visit Melbourne shortly, an I aske I the Donnell to grant him leave of absence to enable him to carryout that intention. It was resolved that Mr -Smltham be allowed two months' leave ; and on the motion of Dr. Dagg, seem lei by Dr, Dawkins, Or. Whattcr was appointc I Chairman of the Council until the return of the Mayor. Mr Smith am was requested to obtain, while in Dune tin, an interview with his Honor the Soperinten lent, and to bring unler his attention the neeessitv of some prompt action being taken in the foil iwing matters, viz : Che i n nediato erection of the Court House and Post : Jffi ;e, and also the erection of the District Gaol here ; tho procuring for Cromwell an ade prate com nonage; the formation of the west end of tho in aiu re a 1 through Cromwell; and several other questions of importance. mong tho correspondence read, was the following letter from the Secretary to the General Post 0 lice at Wellington, anent the mail contract for the coming year:— “General Post 0 Hce, “Wellington, Sept. 29, 1879. “ .Sir, —In reply to vour letter of the 26th August, in avhieh you state it is the avish of the Town Council that tho present mail service fro n Duuelin should he alterei, I have to inform you that it is propose! that the coach which leaves Dune lia m the morning shall reach Nasoby, if possible, the same evening, and Cromwell the following day, thus giving you a course of post of two days. —f have, &c., “ W, Gray (for tho Secretary.) “Tho Town Clork, Cromwell."

The supply of water in tlie town race since the new arrangement was enter' 1 into has boon plentiful mrl regular; but now tbit the dry season, with its inevitable concomitants of hi ill winds an I all-perva ling dust, is approaching, the inconvenience of an open race will begin to be felt. Darin; the list tw» days the water has been quite nu.it for use, an 1 in many places the accumulations of rubbish in the channel have almost entirely stopped the flow. Wo observe with much satisfaction that several of the residents in Melnnre-streot have brought water on to their premises by means of lea I piping, and have to some extent male provision against tare by attaching inlia-ruhhor laose to their watertanks. it is to be hj >ps I that the example thus set will bo foil )W3 I by others of our townsman. The letter of “ A Bma File Miner” was received too late for insertion this aveek. The first monthly sitting of the Warden’s Court at Ben ligo is advertised to he held to-morroav (Thursday).