QUEENSTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 87, 11 July 1871, Page 6

QUEENSTOWN.

(from our own correspondent.) July 9, 1871.

1 fear I have but little news to communicate this time, Queenstown having for the past month been unusually quiet, if we except the 4th of July, last Tuesday, which was decidedly lively, balls being given at tho “Victoria” and Prince of Wales Hotels, and a most successful concert, held in the School-house, in aid of the English Church.

There must have been over two hundred persons present at the latter, as the amount realised was somewhere between £3O and £4O, by far the largest receipts ever taken in Queenstown at an entertainment of this description. An admirable programme was provided, the only drawback to the pleasure of listening to the music, being the coldness of the room, which fully accounted for the small number of encores demanded by the audience.

The instrumental and vocal music was in every respect so first-rate, that it is scarcely fair to particularise ; yet the admirable manner in which Mrs Boult rendered the wellknown “Power of Love,” showing perfection of vocal execution and expression, and the duet played by Mr Burwell on the violin, and that lady on the pianoforte, deserve special mention. I am sorry to hear that more schedules have been filed this week ; but do not infer from that fact that Queenstown, on the whole, is less solvent than it has been during the past two years, as in most of these cases there are peculiar circumstances attaching, which place the matter in quite a different light to that by which insolvencies are usually viewed. The war of the Arrow papers is in statu quo, barring that the Editor of the Observer has been keeping very quiet latterly,' though whether with a view of finally withdrawing his paper or not, is uncertain. The only other item of interest is the launching of the old cutter “ the Moa,” which lias been undergoing alterations, and has been re-rigged as a schooner under the new name of the “Jane Williams.”