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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 127, 16 April 1872, Page 4

j The ceremony of « turning the first sol of the Carriek Range Water Race is annonnc, to take place next Saturday, and the occasio | will doubtless attract a large assemblage of tk | interested m the success of the most import, > work that has yet been commenced in this di tnct Mrh. E. Dagg has undertaken to «, ! struct the first eighty chains of the propose | race, and w,!l begin operations on Duffer's Null Without delay. From Mr J. D. Feraud, the enterprise proprietor of Monte Ckristo Farm, we have r eeived several samples of his famed wii.es to cordials. The » Ducal Grape" is certainly t most pleasant wme we ever tasted, and we'lino hesitation iu saying that for quality and ft vour it can hardly be excelled. The other m | plcs-including orange and ginger wine, el,,rr j brandy, orange bitters, Ac.--are far superior! anything imported, and will always comma*! ready sale L\he whole of the artides mentis are wall adapted to the requirements of print tainiliea, ' The nomination of candidates for tli vacant (J.Hincillorslup for Kawarau Ward tow | dace at the Council Chamber on Satunlnv af'« I n«.on,--the Mayor (Mr James Taylor) pnUlhr I V goodly sprinkling of citizens attended tovii ness the proceedings. The usual formalitb having been disposed of, Mr Johv Marsh wi proposed by Mr I). A. Jolly, and seconded 1, Mr bdward Lindsay. Mr I.'. ft |> l( ,„ t |„,. pioposel andMrK. Kidd seeonde I, the" nun* luitioa of Mr John Havka The show of ha..,* having been dee ared j„ favour of Mr Maish , poll was demanded on behalf of Mr Mayes U I Marsh briefly addressed the meetino. ' "Mr'n.w | was n»t present. The usual vote"of thinkst | the presiding officer concluded the proceeding j Lh« JM.II takes place on Thursday next, tli i hYh lust., at the Cromwell Ho l e!. The appointment of a local Commits in connection with the Dunstan Hospital i S) matter m which ev.ry rtsdci.t in the Croimvd district should take an active interest \ i,u! he meotiiM with this object in view is advert to be held m tiie lowndiail nex, Tuesday. Mr J. Harding's now hotel at Carricktoi is now open, and forms a very respectable ail ilition to the number of licensed houses in tk neighbourhood. The bar deparment is umlo the charge of Mr Alfred Short, and the purvey. orship is in tlu hands of s skilful c/w/—Mr E Harding, late of the Commercial Hotel Cro& i well The combined efforts of these gentlemu | should go far towards making the new hotel) favorite lions; of call for visitors to the reefs. His Worship the Mayor, at a mectin* of the Library Committee held last week, su* ; gestol the desirability of resuscitating die |W , jar rmtertnminents so successfully carried out last winter. The suggestion was promutlv 'acted upon, and it was agreed to convene';, j meeting of the Athenanim Hall Committee fc to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at eight o'clock i Y\ e hope to see a full attendance of members. A lamentable and fatal accident occurred at the mouth of the Hawca Liver, opiwah Wanaka Station, on Saturday evenin". Uur ii> formant(MrJ. 1). Ross) states that on the dav mentioned a shepherd arrived from an out-sti tion with a pack-horse, and that Joto >h U mondson -Mr Campbell's groom—who was os horseback, undertook to lead the animal across the Hawea ford. It was quite dusk at the time. I he two horses landed on the opposite sided i the river in safety, but the rider had disappeared I It is surmised that the pack-horse, on entcrk | tha river, had pulled on the haltjr and dragged j the unfortunate young man oil' the animaTli j was riding, and that, being unable to gains i tooting in the rapid current, he was swept in!* the Clutha and drowned. The deepest part d I the ford is not more than two feet, but the velocity of the current is very great. A seardi parly was organised by Mr Campbell (whohi: I just returned from Cromwell) immediately after ! the sad occurrence, but no traces of the bod; ! could be discovered. The deceased was aboai live-and-twenty years of age, and was wd! known and generally esteemed throughout th district. During the sitting of the Supreme Com! In Banco on the 10th inst., Mr lloworth. onl* half of Mr (I. Jenour, applied for a rule 'nUiU a writ calling upon the (Corporation to she* cause why all proceedings should not be st-ayfl in the matter of "The Corporation r. Jenmir." The rule was granted, returnable ten daysaftef service. We regret to chronicle the death of 31' John Milieu, late of Smith's (Sully, lAinniwt burn, which occurred at the Dunstan Hospital on Sunday, the 7th inst. The mortal remain? of the deceased were conveyed from Clyde to the Cromwell Cemetery on Tuesday last, M members of the Loyal Cromwell Lodge of OddFellows, to which order Mr Miden The funeral was attended.by a consideruS number of the brethren.

The adjourned meeting of shareholders the Carrick Range Water Supply Company [ 3 hekl in the Town-hall on Saturday after'on • but there being only a small number of n Lrehohlors present, the meeting was adjourned c n Friday next. 2 accident occurred in Titnaru on c g«jay the 4th inst., the landing of ° [fl ofthe surf-boats, by which a man named 3 illy lost his life. The TLnira Herald of p on day writes regarding the deceased as fol- s ff3 ._-" We have every reason to believe that y e poor fellow lleilly, who was crushed to death {) I Thursday last by the surf-boat, was the same a dividual who some years since, along with an- : ( her man named Hartley, discovered gold in ■ a »o. The deceased, in name, character, •. lysical build, and by common report, was ! entitled with the gold discoverer. For some 1; ;tle time after the discovery the two men kept quiet, and amassed very considerable sums c? money ; but through dissipation and reckless- 1 , 3S Reilly, at all events, parted with his money a ■ soon as he made it. He then went to the 2 est Coast diggings, where he was knocking iout for some time, but not doing any good for i mself or others, lleilly had only been a few i ec ks in Timaru when he met with his sudden . fjfrightful death." j I A breach of promise of marriage case a §me before Mr Justice Chapman on Tuesday it in LHmcdin, in which Elizabeth Feeney sued . ]iii Richardson, the master of a coasting vessel, -£'23o. The jury awarded her £SO. The Annual Colonial Volunteer Rifle J atehes commenced on April 2, at Cashmere 1 a r Ohristchureh. Fifty-eight volunteers, • mprising representatives from each Province <• the Colony, competed. Mrs Fox. the wife of e Premier, fired the lirst shot, and scored a * ill's-eye at 150 yards. Captain Wales, of Otago, ( m the Champion licit of New Zealand, having £ arte, in eight matches, an aggregate score of !l) • the same gentleman was also champion * st year. The following are the prizes awarded the rive highest aggregate scorers during the eetiii" :—lst, —The Champion Belt for the iir, a Cold me Id, and £SO ; 2nd,—Silver 1 edaland£3s; 3rd, —Silver medal, and £3O; ] hj,—Silver medal, and £25 ; sth, —Silver i slid, and £2O. The following are the iive|] ; ize-taker-3 :—Captain Wales, of Otago, 1 ; 1 irpjral Carter, Wellington, 2 ; Private Hos- 1 Ins, Aackland, 3 ; Sergeant Taylor, Otago. 4 ; ; Li Lieutenant Muir, Otago, 5. In a match ' [el during the meeting between the ten high- j It scorers of the South Island, and a like Hum|r of the North, the former were victorious: < e scores were ;—South, 550; North, 531. ;The Bruce Herald spoils Quartzville pt'i "s" instead of '"z". We notice also that , L DmmtM Tliiics habitually spells Carrickton [thout the " k". The following "remedy for intemperidj"' is furnished by a correspondent of the mra'iaii Journal .'—Sulphate of i: i»n, 5 grains j voiesia, 10 grains ; peppermint water, 11 aehtus ; spirit of nutmeg, 1 drachm. The five mixture sulKces for one draught.; two audits to be taken daily. This remedy for . temperance overcomes the longing desire for ink, and restores strength. We have to ; 4feftlfifek' o the receipt, ith thanks, of an H JB return, being an ; ncemiutof the buidiiicnTOvation, and of the ricnltnral produce thereof," compiled by the iperintcndent-Collector of the Province, Mr in Sperry, up to February, 1572. From it itake the following statistics relating to agriItural matters in Otago :—The total number acres under crop in the Province is 274 517. this number, 33,G00 acres were sown in teat; and their estimatcl gross produce is i 1225 bushels. Over 81,000 acres were sown [oats, the gross proluoe of which is 2,107,020 Ishek The number of acres sown in barley b 3,323, and their produce is estimated at Llo3 bushels. 14 5,620 acres are given as sown [permanent artificial grasses. 3,030 acres were Id down in potatoes ; and 13,407 tons are kimated to be the produce for the year. The pent of land broken up, but not under crop, (state 1 to he 34 360 acres ; giving the total ex- ] Sit of land broken up in the Province as " p,SS3 acres. Highest in the list of total rehs stands the Waitaki district ; then come ,] p Taieri, Bruce, Clutha, and Waikouaiti disps,—nearly equal in their numbers. Mataura pla next, then Riverton ; and Wakatip and hpeka follow, —Wakatip growing nearly three " ps as much wlieat as Tuapeka, while Tuapeka i . N.s over double the ipiantity of barley. The pat Ida district is lowest on the list. :i Direct telegraphic communication with •', inland was opened ou the 13th in3t. The TiaU.if Time* says : —We understand fat Sir David Monro (the late speaker of the foase of Representatives,) has consented to allow Bnself to be placed in nomination as a candidate if the vacant seat for Waikouaiti in the House Representatives. The contest, however, is peeted to lie between two local candidates—essrs Preston and Hutcheson. A. Chinaman, says the Tn?pih% Times, lently went into a store in Waipori to purchase S. ''Forgetting (if he ever knew) the En» .'» ash name for eggs, and seeing none displayed, II 6 nude super-celestial lingual efforts to make te *' storekeeper understand what he wanted, but Itiinut avail. Finally, the Chinaman selected , jomon somewhat resembling an egg in appear' "'"•ati'l imitated the process of laying, wind--snp by flapping his arms and cackling after fcinnst approved manner of a hen exulting in " ™ • accomplishment of egg-laying exBi'iiis,' 1 |[ o succeeded in making the store- ' |-i*r "savec.'' Im noticing tlie demise of the Bruce wdard, " l>. Tenax," in the Tuapeka Timr*, j 3 that paper the following well-merited mtu :_" i don't J () mil ,:h in the eulogist line, J I cannot let the Standard pass away with°atribute of praise. It was ably, honestly, *<■ manfully conducted. Its leading articles, 'lcpthof thought and diction, were a credit "C Press of the colony, and it was always to pjront ?n suggesting and encourag.ng the I w "i of new industries."