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Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 94, 29 August 1871, Page 5

■| Messrs Burres and Mackellar have been ( elected as Municipal assessors for the current I year. I Mr John Marsh having resigned (owing | to ill-health) his position as one of tho stewards | of the Spring Races, tire name of Mr D. A. Jolly J has been added to the Hat, in place of that of s| the former gentleman. A permanent supply of good, clean Water is one of the great wants of this town. I Hero is an example set us : —“ A new company is being floated in Charleston, called tho Charleston Permanent Water-Supply Company, with a nominal capital of £6OOO. It is reported by the local paper that £l,lOO worth of scrip has already been disposed of.” Mr Eicharclt, the well-known proprietor of the Queen’s Arms Hotel, Queenstown, has recently built a large and handsome suite of apartments specially for the accommodation of families visiting that locality. The building, which is of stone, is the most substantial erection of the kind we have yet seen up-country, and is furnished on a scale of magnificence certainly not excelled in any part of the Province. Edith Palmerston, we learn, has had crowded houses at Drybread, St. B ithans, .tfaseby and district, and will return to Cromwell and Clyde for the race nights. The Entertainment this highly talented lady offers to the public is of a very superior character to the majority of up-country visiting entertainments, and as a ball is announced on the race-night at the School-room, as also in the Town-half Clyde, on the race-night there, a crowded house is certai i at both places. Why should not the ale and porter consumed in the Cromwell district be brewed in a Cromwell brewery ? Annually a very large sum is paid away by publicans and private individuals for fermented liquors. This money is paid away to strangers unnecessarily, while by establishing a brewery in our midst the public would be benefited in a threefold manner, —a local industry would be created and fostered, much money earned in the district would be spent and employed therein, ami a better article—in the shape of wholesome ale--could be produced at a reduced cost. We just mention the matter, as the project has been mooted of forming a Joiutotock Brewing Company. It is calculated that such a concern would pay a good dividend to the shareholders, and supply a manifest want. The success met with by Messrs W. Anderson and party (late of Kawarau Gorge) in drudging for gold on the Upper Shotover, has induced them ta extend their operations to the Kawarau River; and at a point known as Welshman’s Bend, above the Gentle Annie {•midge, they have secured a dredgo-clainj which ' is expected Will prove highly remunerative, hroughoufc the whole extent of the claim (which *•806 feet in length, by the breadth of the l A- the current is scarcely perceptible, and it /wed tho bed is comparatively free from FA s or other impediments to successful working of the river bottom. The party are building a spoon-dredge of the largest class, and expect to have the vessel afloat and at work within a couple of months. The dimensions of the dredge are as follow Length, -13 feet; breadth, 144 feet; depth, a.fret.