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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 124, 26 March 1872, Page 4

- A toamoeting and ball will take pE®; at the new Sch ) >l-house, Bannockburn, to-uulFSp Good Friday and Easier Monday wilier wo understand, b j observed as holidays at thlw Bank and Court-house here. We are informed that subscriptions tdJK wards the support of the Ibinstan Hospital arIH now being colleotc I at the Carrick Range. j Mr Edwin A. George, landlord of till® ! Kveburn Pass Hotel, Ivyobnrn laggings, and mSl 1 1 old resident of that locality, died on the UF-*| ! hlSt - U I Saturday next, the 30t.1i inst.. will IJS ; the last day of the current year on which clairaf tt : for registration of votes can he received by tin! g| ; Registration OlHeor. Forms of application i be obtained gratis at our ollicc. The adjourned meeting for the electin?|' a * ;of a School Committee, convened for yestordr. j| 1 evening, was attended by only six householder;, re j and it was agreed by those present to again ai'jffl journ the meeting to Wednesday, the 3rd pros, fP The season Tor shooting wildfowl ootrf '® l i mences on Monday next, the Ist of April. Therf M ' j is already a brisk enquiry in town for powdejH and shot, and we hear that several parties mm sportsmen have been organised with a viewt; * duck-shooting on the Upper Clutha. AFr J. D. Fcraud, the well-known pvoj prietor of the Monte Christo Farm, Dunstanl J has this season been again successful iu raising ■}< magnificent crops of fruits of various kinds.? y Many tons have been disposed of throughout tM hj district; and large quantities have been used bt f, Mr Fcraud in the manufacture of wines aft- a French and British cordials. Black-currant <] orange-aud-gooseberry, and Madeira wines (tM <] latter made from peaches), as also cherry brandy) t : enrae >a, and maraschino—all excellent of tlieil f | several kinds—are prepared in large quantities! < [ and command a ready sale at fair prices. Wo wove yesterday favoured by Ml t ‘ I Grant, the contractor, with a sight of the plat t jof the proposed new Court-house, which is to' t j erected on the Public Buildings Reserve, on tM 't : j north side of Mr Goodgcr’s t residence. TF 1 . j building will be of stone, plastered with Romsijj j i cement. The main building will ‘he Soft. bf{ i , 17 ft. (inside measurement) ; walls 20 inchesi| p ’ j thickness, and 13 ft. clear in height from floort p i ? ; ceiling. At either end will he the Magistrate’S • and Receiver's rooms, each 0 ft. by 12 ft.. wiKgP . outer and inner doors. Tlie building will F q r lighted in front by four scmi-eircular windoweS ’ and in the centre !>y two large roof-lights. TF i iron roof will be borne upon principals, wit * ■ purloins -a plan calculated to ensure the great*; 1 | amount of strength in the upper part of 1 ,1 _ | structure. The interior walls will be wain ; j coted to the height of 4 ft. (> in. througlmWFf( The time specified for completion of the w irk ; & JI four months ; and we can safely predict thattbJS 1 new Court-house, when finished, will be a cre'bHj j to the builder and an ornament to the town r | The plan is exactly similar to that of the Conrt-H ' j lions a at. Lawrence, of which Mr R. A. 'J was the architect. li;

Che Otago Graving Dock, at Port [liners, was formally opened by His Honor I Superintendent on the 15th inst. a boy named William George Goudie, hj 1, -r, y earS[ was accidentally drowned in the 11 L pj ver( at Palmerston, on the 14th inst., lie playing with other children. t Phe services of a duly-qualified medical t fctitioner are required in connection with the ' piidlv Societies in this district. An adver- 11 Lieut Inviting applications appears iu the x j i,j Tims of a late date. 4 [hi St Patrick’s Day, in Lawrence, a icy Fair was held, and a grand banquet in t I evening to celebrate the Completion of the c man Catholic Schoolhouse. Both affairs were i reraely successful, and the Tuapeha Times £ ce3 the amount of money realised at £501). ‘ Glreat fears are entertained in Welling- 4 ; regarding the small-pox, which, as stated in k [telegraphic news a week or two ago, had j sn brought from London by the ship Eng- , cl Her passengers are chiefly Scandanavians ; ‘ I according to the report of a Wellington . Ideal man, gross negligence and carelessness ye been displayed in their treatment. | [At the Maori Point Peaces, held on St. 1 Lick’s Day, the Hurdle Race was distinguished 1 L ra ther peculiar feature. One of the horses 1 the first heat proved a regular “ jibber” ; and i A other horse being very slow, but a first-rate i uper,) his rider determined to make a waiting ] ie of it in the second heat. The distance was 1 aile and a half, and the time occupied, says ■ > | Yahatip Mail, was 9;nin. and 20 secs. How- ] ;r, chiefly owing to the superior jockeyship of ' > rider, the slower horse of the two won. We serve that our old favorite, Excelsior, landed i 0 races for his new owner, Mr Bordeau, — iu L.4D. Mr J- Ormond, the Minister for Public 1 0r1i.3 for the Colony, has forwarded circulars the Superintendents of the various Provinces, rin> T opinions from them legarding the advijility of allowing contractors to employ Chi--3C labour on the railways and other public irks now being undertaken in the Colony. ,e Superintendent of Nelson, whose reply is 3 only one published, is not in favour of the west ion ; and states, with regard to a railway lus Province, that a large number of the setrs are looking forward with the utmost anxiety the opportunity which they hope will be or.ltil to them of getting employment upon is work. Sergeant C vssels, who has been in ar'e of the Cromwell Station—with two or ree short intervals —for about nine years, took s departure hence on Saturday last, havr receive I orders to procee I to Clyde and r.iifc farther instructions. Sergeant (tassels s proved himself a most e Hcient officer of the eventive force, and the valuable services he ,s rendered to the Government iu the c.dlociu of revenue of every kind, —from dog-tax to ictioneers’ license-fees, —merit lecognition at e hands of his superiors. We venture to say ! at a more active, trustworthy, or impartial ticer than Sergeant Gassels is not to be found the Force ; and he carries with him our best ishes for his speedy promotion. Wo learn tint Mrs Marshall, wife of r James Marshall, Bannockburn, had a narrow cape from death by accidental poisoning on inday afternoon last. It appears that Mrs arshall (who is in delicate health), while eniged in some domestic avocation, was attacked / an internal pain, to alleviate which she took small quantity of chlorodyne, and then resumed ;r occupation, Soon afterwards she became mseims of having taken an overdose, and at ice informed her husband of the fact. Mr [arshall despatched a messenger for medical id, and Dr Corse arrived at the house—which about three miles from Cromwell—within a my short time after the occurrence. The doom's efforts to restore consciousness were happily iccessful, and not many minutes elapsed from ie time of his arrival until the patient was out t all danger. We may add that the phial of blurodync had been in Mrs Marshall’s possesion for a length of time, but that she had only Bed it medicinally once or twice previously. The Oamaru Times of the 19th instant icords the occurrence of a terrible and fatal trident on Friday 15th inst., on the Papakaio lain, to a man named James Grafton, iu the fnploy of Mr Donald Borrie, farmer. Grafton fas working as ploughman for Mr Borrie on bine land about half a mile from the house of he latter, and was a steady sober man. At pout six p. m. of the day in question one of the prses belonging to the plough team galloped up ) the stables dragging the body cf Grafton, one E whose legs was entangled in the trace chain, ring unable to enter the stable, the horse galled on along the fence, kicking the body as it 'ent. AMr Ferguson went in pursuit of the orse and arrested its progress, when it was umd that the body was terribly mutilated, and 1 the clothing torn off except the boots and movers. It is supposed that deceased was eneavouring to mount the horse to ride home, and iat it took fright from some cause, and deed's feet becoming entangled in the chain, ragged him. The Provincial Council will meet in the id of April. “ What they will find to do when 'ey meet (says the Tvapeka Times) is difficult ) conjecture. The ostensible business they are died to transact will be to pass the estimates ; ut as there is no money in the treasury, the tility of going through the form of voting money open to question. The emptiness of the Promcial Treasury, however, will not prove an infixed evil. As there is no money to pay the onorariums, the session of the Provincial Coun--1 will bo exceedingly short.”—His Honor the nperintendent, the other day, when three L PC.’s waited upon him with the object of etting a new schoolhouse at the Kaikorai, in eriariug his inability to grant their request, ftd it was just as well that they should underbid the hitch. The Council could sell the lid and build good schools with the proceeds, if instead of doing that they were keeping the ind locked up till it would slip from their con- . Messrs Cantrell and Barr said, “ But you in t get purchasers.” His Honor replied, “There ’in difficulty about finding purchasers. 1 iild undertake to realise £P)'!,ftffO tor land in lies months.”

Mr J. D. Fenuul, of the Monte Christo Farm, near Clyde, took the second prize, among amateurs, for apples, at the Horticultural Show held last week, in Dunedin. They attracted i notice on accotmt of their unusftal size. i A man named Erasmus Larsen died on ‘ the lOth inst. at Naseby, from injuries received j by a quantity of earth falling ‘upon him while , working in his claim. The deceased, who was a , native of Draga, Island of Amager, Denmark, ( was aged about .'ls, and arrived at Naseby about j twelve months ago. At a public meeting held iff Dunedin bn the 12th inst., for the furtherance of the Objects ' of the Half-Holiday Association, Judge Chapman, in the course of a lengthy and excellent ’speech, told the following “ experience” : “ Forty years ago, f was the proprietor and editor of a Colonial newspaper —having iu my employ lifteen or perhaps twenty men. Oh the Saturday the men had a half-holiday, because there was no paper published on Sundays ; but, as compensation for that half-holiday, they were obliged to come to work on the Sunday night. We had previously, without thinking, adopted the usual plan of paying the men on Saturday night ; hut in those days—l believe they are better now—printers were a little addicted to whisky—(laughter)—and sometimes some of them came to the office on Sunday night—l won’t say intoxicated—but a little too far gone—(renewed laughter)—and unable to do their work properly. From mere selfish interests 1 adopted the custom of paying the men on Monday, and the consequence was that the men’s wives—and here let me remark that women are more trustworthy than men—got hold of the money, and it was more advantageously spent during the week, and the men by Saturday evening generally found the money all gone, so that they could not come to the printing office on a Sunday night iu the state in which they had been previously in the habit of coming. We found that system work well; it was purely a selfish movement on our part, without any thought of 'the advantage which the example would afford to the community.” Some time ago (says the Daily Times) a lire took place at the stables of Langley’s White Horse Hotel, Tokomairiro, and a man named George Williams, who was engaged as boots at the hotel, was suspected of having caused it. Williams arrived at Tokomairiro from Dunedin on Saturday last, the 10th inst., stayed that night, and started in the up-country direction on Sunday. On Monday night, Mr Langley received a threatening letter, purporting to be signed by Williams, through the Post Office. He gave the letter to the Sergeant of Police at Tokomairiro, who started in pursuit of him at daylight on Tuesday morning, and arrested him on the bank of the Waitahuua river. The sergeant told him he was charged with having written a threatening letter to Mr Langley, and ho admitted having done so. This he afterwards denied in Court, but witnesses were called who , proved that the letter was iu his handwriting. I The letter charged Langley with having circulated false reports regarding the prisoner, and with knowing the parson who had stolen £ll, his property. It then proceeded : —“Now, my Sole intention in coining to Tokomairiro is* to tell . you plainly, to have revenge—for revenge is sweet, i will not stop in my programme Until you are left without house or home. Re verge 1 want, and revenge 1 will have. I may be miles 1 away from your establishment, hut still nrisfor- ' tune will attend you, not in an indirect way, but 1 in a way to leave no doubt to you that your ■ boots, G. Williams, is the origin of it ; but to ■ be able to prove it—you will be cooked. Haley’s ! revenge towards Russell will be nothing to mine ' towards you. . . . The remainder of my ’ life is dedicated to your destruction: and if I ’ get half a slant, I shall theft. Show you what my 1 revenge is. You will not half anticipate it, so 1 farewell to you, and think of me in your hour ‘ of trouble. .... Use this letter at your 1 peril—as sure as you do you will regret it.” The 1 Tokomairiro Bench bound Williams over to keep J the peace for twelve months in his own recog- *■ ni/.ance of £IOO and two sureties of £SO each. This to him will be most likely equivalent to a r sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment.