OCCASIONAL NOTES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 103, 31 October 1871, Page 5

OCCASIONAL NOTES.

BY TYPO. " Patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles ;" an old axiom, aad generally a vary true one. Will ii turn out true in respect te the Cromwell Court House, I wonder? 300r1a333 knows, the modicum of Job's virtue which we oi*o'.n.veUit33 pos33S3 has been strained to the very utmost daring the past four years ; and I would with becoming humility suggest (in order that in after-time the patient and enduring nature of the early Oromwellians 11117 not be forgotten by their offspring) the propriety and suitability of handing dawn to posterity a symbolical record of their virtues, by giving te the first male infant hereafter born in family, the short and expressive name of the old prophet. Certainly saeh a displxy of Job's special virtue as his been exhibited by the dwellers in Oroai.vell is worthy of smie mark of recognition. And equally worthy of notice, Mr EfJitor, is the consistent display of perseverance which you have shown in persistently jarlvociting our claims for more respejtible ! and diguilied U mri accommodation. No one [can with an? j ufclce siy we have not carried ;out the "patience and perseverance" axiom j to the letter. 1 never enter the local dog- | kennel where the m ijesty of the law is viu- ! elicited without being forcibly reminded of [the following description of the Court House at Miller's Fiat, in the earlier days of'the Southern Goldlields :—"The Magistrate delivers hi 3 decisions with the greatest gravity seated on the top of a porter-case ; before him is a table constructed of gin cases, braced with manuka sapling*, without any cloth to I hide the ludicrous appearance it presents. jThc Clerk's seat is agin case, and the officials ! and witnesses have to ' hang up their hits on j the floor.' To crown all, there is no shelf or I any article of furniture to hide the bareness ! of the walh." Certainly, Cromwell is a little better off, —but only a little. I have just had a look through the TllusHraiid il-.mll for the present month, j mainly induced to speculate in a copy by the tempting announcement that it contained a I " m agniacent viev 0: Qieeustown, Like I Wa'citio." The 11-.rj/l is a very good colonial illustrated, —on; of the best, without [doubt; but the migaiucent view of Qieenslt>wn, Like Wakabip, is a delusion and a j si ire; it i 3 as much like Pembroke, La'.:e j WVuka, as it is like Queaastowii/Lake I V/akatlp. Woi'S the Qaeemto.va potentates be wroth at hivinj the great City of the Lak 3 onUgiorl by the represenbati »n of a I am ill to'-osnip o; about twenty housci lc j their dwelling place ! The d'sse n'oas -which are taking ulaei baaween mhibter.i and th i? flocks in D .media secrn tj have bocoai e chronic. N ■. sooner is one "a Fecbionahi pastor" out of hot 'wain 1 , thin another ona takes hisplue ; and ! by the time the diference between the. second [ one and his '' dear flock " is patched up -by a

temporary ppaopj ,the probability i 3 that rucbiiOi" fU ib'.-jiU33 have arisen bot.veon "No. I aid/i n she ep. B jog;: ally in the Firs bU im rcli di tiiese rows 3je.n to occur and recur ; and judging from the account} which I have lata!/ road, a pretty abate of anarchy seems to reiga supreme in the raklib of the "pioneer band." Who a will Christian ministers ieivn to practise humility and to as-tame a cordial nian:i3r in theiv dealings with thosa who (to use it Presbyterian phrase) '"sit under ilwia ]' i'ha First Chare-i eoigr edition and their minbbJr should show a bet-tar example than they are at present doing.