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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 114, 16 January 1872, Page 4

The only business! transacted in the Resilient Magistrate's Court on Thursday last was the granting of an application for a billiard' licence by Thomas Heron, of the White Hart Hotel, Cromwell. The Clutha and Kawarau rivers have now reached their highest summer level, and many holders of claims along the banks have been obliged to suspend operations in consequence of their tail-races being entirely submerged. A rich lode has at Inst been struck in the Duke of Cumberland quartz-claim, adjoining the Heart of Oak. We are not in possession of any particulars, but We have reason to believe that the discovery is a really valuable one. We are also informed that some splendid-looking stone is being got out of the Young Australian claim, of which Mr John Jackson was the prospector. The Elizabeth Company have appointed Mr T. M'Ardell, Lite of the Arrow, as manager of their claim and battery. We understand that Mr M'Ardell has had extensive experience in quartz-mining and battery management at Wood's Point, Victoria, and subsequently in Queensland. We are informed by a shareholder that a rich lode was struck a few days since in the Adams's Gully Quartz Mining Company's shaft. A portion of the stuff taken from the reef was pounded in a mortar, and found to average a pennyweight to the dish. Tile party intend putting in a tunnel to cut the new leader. The want of seasonable rain will be severely felt by every cultivator in this district. A very small proportion of the oat crop will be worth harvesting ; indeed the greater part of it has been already cut down and converted into hay. In reference to the proposed periodical shifting of gold-fields wardens, the Tuapeka Thnrx believes that it is contemnlatedto remove only two wantons at present—those of the Dun* stan and Tuapeka, who will exchange districts ; and that the said removal is made solely with the view of redeeming a promise made by the Government to one of the wardens affected when he took office. The Otago Graving Dock was formally handed over to the trustees by the contractors (Messrs Connor & Mackay) on Thursday last.

On Friday week (as we learn from the Clyde paper) a horse named Tommy, owned by Mr John Alellor, was trotted over a distance ol miles—from Blacks to Drybread —in ot minutes 40 seconds, or at the rate of i mile in 3 mia. 21 sees. An unfortunate case of suicide, (says th? Brace Standard) occurred in the East Cluthi district on the 3rd inst., a young man name! Andrew Anderson having shot himself. At the ' inquest held on his body, a verdict of •'temporary insanity" was returned by the jury. : From the evidence it appeared that he had been heard to express himself as weary of his life, sometime previously to the fatal deed. A share in Spooner and Go.'s claim, Manuka Creek, was recently sold for £220. On the pension list of Tasmania there appears the name of the hangman, Solomon Bar, who has been awarded a pension of £26 15s. 4J. per year. Other pensioners will surely feel insulted.. An old habitue of Clyde, named Noah Lincard, but better known as " Old Jacky," was found dead in his tent last week. The jury returned a verdict in accordance With the medical evidence, which was to the effect that the deceased died from serous apoplexy. A Kyeburn miner named James "White met with a serious accident while on hs way to the Mount Ida Race-course on Thursday. We learn from the Chronicle that White was riding company with another at a fast pace, and when crossing Wet Gully an effort was made to . get in front, in doing which White's leg came in contact with the horse of the other partj, at once breaking the bone below the knee. He then fell from his horse and was dragged a considerable distance along the ground before the animal could be stopped. A " professional" gentleman, at one time an inmate of Dunedin Gaol, but now resident at Portobello Say, was brought before the R.M. at Dunedin a few days ago. charged with throwing tobacco to prisoners working at Anderson's Bay. For ths offence the " worthy" doctor was tined £2O, or in default to suffer three months' incarceraton. . The tender cf Mr John Morrison, of Naseby, for the erection o. a hospital building at that place, has been accepted. The amount of his tender Waa £342. Jacob London, a hawker, met with a Bevere accident between Naseby and Hamilton a few days ago. It appears (says the Mount Ida Chronicle/ that- London was on hi.i way to Hamilton in his own conveyance, and that, when within two or three miles of that place, be notied something wmng about the headgear of the horses, and got down for the purpose of 'set- >' it in order. While thus engaged the horses took fright and broke away from him, the vehicle knocking him down, and passing over and fracturing his leg. The injured man was subsequentlv conveyed to Naseby, and attended to by Dr M 'Cambridge, who reports him as progressing satisfactorily. The trial of John Ewing, charged with shooting a Chinaman at St. Bathans, was concluded on the Bth inst. The jury retumed a ver. diet of Guilty on the fourth count, namely, '' shooting with intent to dogrie vous bodily harm. '> They, however, recommended the prisoner to mercy. Mr Stout gave notice of his intention to move an arre3t of judgment, on the ground that the indictment was bad. The argument of counsel was beard on Thursday last, and was sustained. The Judge will therefore state a case for the Court of Appeal. Ewing has been admitted to bail until June. A correspondent of the Daily Times states that Miss Ross, the Mangatua fasting ;. girl, was lately visited by no less than a hun* dred and twenty persons in one day. The Presbyterian Synod of Otago and Southland met in the First Church at Dunedin on the 10th inst, Thirty-two ministers and twenty-three elders were in attendance. The Rev. James Kirkland, of Inch Clutha, was chosen Moderator for the ensuing year.