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Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 50, 26 October 1870, Page 4

The British mails are expected to leave Dunedin on the undermentioned dates : Via Suez, on the 31st October ; and via San Francisco, on tho Ist November. Letters and papers intended to be sent by either route will, therefore, require to be posted here not later than to-morrow (Thursday), the 27th instant. A meeting of members of the Cricket Club is to be held in the Town Hall to-night, at eight o'clock, with the view of adopting rules for the guidance of tin affairs of tho Club. Mr Kelly, the only remaining Trustee of the Cromwell Cemetry, has convened a public meeting for Friday evening next, at seven o'clock, for the purpose of electing two Trustee* in the room of Messrs David Booth and U. A. Loughnan, who have left the district. We. trust the meeting will be numerously attended. The Hilton Troupe performed at Kidd's Hall on Monday night, to a mo lerately good house. As on the occasion of their former appearances here, the members of the company delighted the audience with a variety of songs, duets, and musical comediettas, such as are but seldom hoard in an up-country town. The company left for Dunedin yesterday afternoon.

The special attention of the Protestant portion of our community is direct e<l to an advertisement in our present issue, announcing that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will lie olispensed in the School-house, Cromwell, on Sunday forenoon, —Divine Service to begin at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Mr Telford, of the Teviot, and the Rev. C. S. Ross, of Alexandra, arrived here yesterday, in order to assist the pastor (Rev. Mr Drake) in the various sjrviues connected with the administration of the holy ordinance. Mr Ross preached the preparation sermon last night in the School-nouse ; Mr Telford will conduct Divine Service in the Schoolhoase, Albertown, this evening, at eight o'clock ; on Sunday, Mr Drake will preach in the Schoolhouse here at 11 o'clock, and Mr Telford at Kawarau Gorge at four o'clock ; and on Monday, the Rev. Mr Ross, of Queenstown, will preach in the Cromwell School-house at eight o'clock p.m.

The whole of the .Municipal reserves advertised to be leased at auction on Wednesday last, were disposed of by Mr Barry, acting on behalf of the Corporation. Sections 21 and 30, Block I ; 20 and 22, Block 111 ; and 2 and 12, Block IV, were knocked down at the annual upset reutal, £2 each. For section 10, Block VI, there was some competition, and the highest bidder pays £5 per annum for the right to occupy it. Section 6, Block VI, went for the upset rental, £1 a year.

A Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows (Manchester Unity) is to be opened " in Cromwell on Thursday, 3rd November, by P.P.G.M. Bro. J. Rogers, assisted by several other officers of the Lake Wakatip Lodge. We / are informed that there is every prospect of a large number of members joining the brotherhood. A supper in honour of the occasion is to take place at Kidd's Hall after the ceremony. The arrival of some large parcels of oats from Oamaru and other placos during the past week has caused a decline in the pnco of that hitherto scarce commodity. The retail price may now be quoted at from 7s 6d to 8a fid per bushel. We have heen requested to notify that the Rev. Mr Telford, of the Toviot, will preach on Sunday afternoon at Kawarau Gorge, instead of at Cromwell in the evening, as anuounoed last ivoek.

We have been requested to intimate that tha Rev, Father Maloney will hold Divine Service in St. John’s Catholic Church next Sunday evening, the 30th inst. The Rev. gentleman also purposes delivering a lecture at Kidd’s Hall on the following (Monday) night: subject—“ The Use of the Holy Scriptures.” The proceeds of the lecture, as well as of the Sunday service, are to be devoted to liquidating the debt due on the church. It is very probable that Father Maloney will also lecture at Mr Goodall’s hotel, Bendigo, on Tuesday ; and at ’ Nir Richards’s, Bannockburn, on Wednesday, for the same object. We understand that the date of Father Maloney’s lecture here was quite unintentionally fixed for the same night as that on which Mr Boss, of Queenstown, is announced to lecture on Total Abstinence. Father Maloney was asked to come on the 16th, but was out of town at the time ; and on his return he tele--1 graphed to the Catholic Church Committee to fix the date of the lecture for Monday—not knowing, of course, that another lecture was to be given here on the same date. We regret to learn that the cutter Isabella, owned and commanded by Mr Charles Hedditch, was wrecked at Damper Bay, Lake Wauaka, on Saturday morning last. The Isabella left Pembroke on Friday afternoon, in ballast, for Pigeon Island, about twelve miles from the Wauaka Hotel; but the wind being dead against her, she only made about five miles that night, and anchored under the shelter of the peninsula until next morning. On Saturday, after taking in more ballast, she continued her course towards Pigeon Island, and on reaching the middle of the lake she encountered a terrific gale from the north-east. In the vicinity of Damper Bay she was put about on the other tack, but before this could be done a squall caught her, splitting the mainsail, and preventing the crew from wearing the vessel in sufficient time ; and, although the anchors were at once let go, it was soon found that they would not hold her, and she drifted ashore on a bank of mud and boulders in Damper Bay. A tremendous sea was running at the time, and the unfortunate vessel filled within an hour after striking, and afterwards settled down in about three feet of mud. In attempting to wear the vessel, Mr Hedditch got one of his legs entangle I in the main-sheet, and had a narrow escape from being dragged overboard by the boom. There wore two other men besides the master on b >ard at the time. The Isabella was a Kmart little cutter of twenty-two tons. She was built .at Pembroke, by Mr Theodore Russell, about twelve months ago, and shortly afterwards became the property of Mr Hedditch" She has since been chiefly engaged in conveying firewood and sawn timber to Pembroke and the various stations np the lake, and was on the wav to Pig mu Tslanl for a cargo of firewood when the mishap oecurre I. Dr (J ut. it will be; seen, intends returning to (Vomwoll about the 9th November. He is at present performing in Invercargill. A. waggoner named William Misklo, while on iiis way from Queenstown to Dunedin, picked up two Chinese as passengers ; and on arriving at Clyde one of them gave information to the police to the effect that ho had lost a sum of manor, an 1 suspected the teamster of having stolen it. The man was apprehended at Clyde ami brought before the Resident Magistrate, who, after hearing the evidence, dismissed the information and discharged the accused. The Rov. D. Ross, Presbyterian minister of Queenstown, is expected to deliver a lecture on “Total Abstinence” in the schoolhouse, Cromwell, next Tuesday evening, at an hour to be notified by the ringing of the school bell. The total abstinence movement is making rapid progress in other parts of the province, a nd we should he glad to see it prosper in thi 3 district also.