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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 115, 23 January 1872, Page 5

There was no business transacted in the Resident Magistrate’s Court here on Thursdaylast. The latest Gazette contains a notification that Mr William Shanly has been appointed a manager of the Cromwell Cemetery, vice Mr P, Kelly, deceased. New Regulations for the Otago Gold* field are published in the Gazette of January 9 ; also, Gold Mining and Agricultural Leases Regulations. The Waste Land Board has confirmed the sale to Mr Clarke of 50,000 acres of land at Moa Flat. The following motion, proposed by Mr Reid, was agreed to at a meeting held to consider the matter “ That the sale be agreed to, except that part of about 1950 acres that lies e N. E. of the road line that divides block 4, and the ten acres reserved as a schoolsite. That MrClarke | can have the option of selecting an equal quan* H tity in any part of the run contiguous to present application, or his deposit returned for the part I taken off in terms of 40th section, Waste Land I Act, 18(56.” The Tuapeka Races take place on Thurs- ;'| day and Friday next, and the Clutha Ferry (Balclutha) Races on the Bth and 9th of Febr| ruary. Extensive bush fires, causing much deistruction of timber, have lately occurred at Pine Hill, near Dunedin, and at Canada Bush, west of Tokomairiro.

Tito Kowaru is evidently getting tired of being hunted about the bush. The following telegram from the Defence Minister at Wanganui was received in Dunedin on the 16th :—“ Tito Kowaru, with thirty-two men, and about the same number of women and children, came out of the bush to a settlement on the coast called Omuturangi, a place about thirty miles north of , tbs Patsa river. A tansd was held, and several , speeches were made. Tito Kowaru made a short speech, and said he had come out on the coast, and was desirous of settling down peaceably ; whether or not the Government would allow him to do so, he could not say. So far as 1 he was concerned, he meant to settle peacably, and not to molest Europeans any further.” The Echo of January 13 says : —Marion , Webb, sentenced for bigamy to six months’ con- ' finement, is a very prosaic individual. Miss ■ Braddon has led us to associate bigamists with golden hair, blue eyes, fair skins, catlike steps, ( agile movements, and a feline demeanour generally,—in short, a spirituelle physique. But Marion Webb looked very like a woman who could walk fiva miles an hour, and finish up with rump steak and onions and bottled porter. She said that she had had her husband’s consent to the crime. But she listened quite complacently when her first husband, in the presence of husband No. 2, addressed her as sister. We wonder if bigamy “runs in the family,” as wooden legs were one time supposed to run in the family . of a Greenwich pensioner. Under the heading, “Mr Birch as Immigration Agent,” the Echo remarks “This ] gentleman was a good carpenter— ergo, he ’must ( be a good immigration agent. He sold and brewed hogsheads of ale— ergo, he has the gift of persuasion. Our professors, our schools, our churches, our charitable institutions, our newspapers, are all to be represented in Britain by a man who probably can neither write nor speak grammar, and who lamentably failed when by some electoral blunder he was pitchforked into the General Assembly. We firmly believe that < his appointment to the immigration agency is a huge practical joke Mr Macassey i proved that he more than once voted for measures i which he had not read. He was the dirty tool of the Vogel Government:— ergo he wss sent i Home to represent us ; and those who see him ' at all will naturally think that all of us are in- ’ tellectually no better than ‘ Tom Birch.’ The latest telegram regarding the illness of the Heir-apparent is as follows ;—“ London, 1 December 12, 5 a.m.—The Prince of Wales, ac- i cording to an official despatch just received from ' Sandringham, passed a very restless night. There are no signs of improvement in his condi- 1 tion, and death is imminent at any time to-day ' from suffocation. Ilfs strength is not so good, ' and what sleep he has is followed by restlessness and unquiet. The chest symptoms are bad. 1 The Princess Alexandra is greatly exhausted. The Princess Royal, Victoria, wife of the Crown ■ Prince of Germany, is hourly expected at Sandringham. The Prince is threatened with in- 1 0 I flammation of the lungs. The excitement in Loudon and the provinces is greater than during the Crimean war.” The Cagli and Pompei Italian Opera Company arrived in Dunedin from Christchurch on Thursday last. The opera season commenced on Friday at the Princess Theatre, with Verdi’s “ 11 Trovatore.” The clipper ship Garrick Castle sailed from Port Chalmers from London on the 17th inst., with a large and valuable cargo of wool, preserved meat, gold, &c. The Mount Ida Chronicle understands that during the absence of Mr Warden Simpson, (who has been lately appointed to the Dunstan district, and who has at present six months’ leave of absence,) that district will be temporarily divided between Messrs Carew and Borton, —Mr Borton taking Clyde in addition to his present duties, and Mr Carew officiating at Cromwell and Alexandra, in addition to Blacks. It is supposed that during the above arrangement Mr Warden Robinson will take his old nf. Rofhnna