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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 134, 4 June 1872, Page 4

The quantity of gold sent from Cron well by Escort on Saturday last was 2270 os. The following is a list of unci timed Iff tors remaining at the Post-office, Cromwell, ® Ist June:—Henry Ehvirds ; John Edwar Greece ; Thomas Horrigate ; Adam Tolson;0 Smith. The gold obtained from a crushing o | 211 tons by the Star of the East Company* 3 j lodged at the Cromwell Bank on Thursdavl® i when the quantity was ascertained to be j 16 dwts. | During the quarter ended 31st M :,rc jIS/2, 32,587 ozs. of gold, valued at £llß,® were exported from Auckland. 56,783 valued at £227,531, were exported from Du® 11 (during the same period.

the half-yearly meeting of Justices for I the granting of publicans’ licenses, gazetted for | 10-t | ayj was formally adjourned by the Clerk of I Court till Thursday,—there being no quorum of | Magistrates present at the hour fixed. \y e are requested to direct the special I ttention of the public to the auction Sale of Mr I Yf Shanly’s landed property, business premises, I ' n il stock-in-trade, announced for the 13th, 14th, I I Dere mptory, (the auctioneer having received his I | ns t rU ctions from the Provisional Trustee in I Bankruptcy), and therefore we need hardly add I that it will be bona fide. Frequent complaints have been, made to J of the filthy condition of the town slaughterI jj oUse s. The stench arising from at least one of ; these places is simply disgusting, and this state : i of things has been allowed to exist for many nionths°past,—in fact, ever since the resignation I bv Constable Comyn of the Inspectorship of I Usances, for we believe a successor has never I k een appointed. The Town Council is wholly to I | | ] auie i u the matter. They appear to ignore the I ex i s tence of Municipal bye-law No. 2, which I ( | ea l s specially with the regulation of urban I slaughter-houses. the practice followed in the Warden’s Hp poutr t here in connection with the hearing of unU opposed applications for protection, water-races, || dams, extended claims, &c., is productive of I much inconvenience and some expense to appliI c3a t Si more especially to such as reside long dis--1 i anc£ g from Cromwell. Under the present svs--j tem applicants have invariably to wait the disposal of all other Court business, however proII | ra cted, before obtaining any grants applied for. I \y e are 110 t aware of any particular reason why a such applications Should be deferred until the f 1 ver y i as t momentbut we are quite sure that if the Warden could make it convenient to dis1 1 p OSe 0 f them immediately after the opening of :Ithe Court, the miners of this district would reap I considerable benefit from the chmge. A case of plagiarism of the most brazen Hdescription has come under our notice. In our T issue of 2nd April there appeared an original ■ contribution by “Crusher” on “The Management of Quartz Mines.” In perusing our latest I file of the Thames Guardian, we find, in its issue Hof May 20, “Crusher’s” letter published in exStowo and verbatim, as an original contribution to i that journal, purporting to be written by “ Tom |i (’rusher,” of Grahamstown ! We think it hardly || probable that the editor of the Guardian could II have been aware of the fact that the article alii Mmled to was “pirated” from the Cromwell If Arcus, nr that it was pnblishel. and duly acknowledged, in the Coromamle.' Mail several davs ; Iprevinus to its appearance in the columns of the 1 IGunrdiivi. We shall patiently await the Guarf i dim's explanation. | A meeting of the Alhemenm Hall Coml mittee was held in the Town-hall on the evening ) cf Tuesday last. Mr B. R. Baird occupied the f Jclnir; an I tliere were a'sn pre. eit Messrs Marsh ||fTin. secretary), Preshaw, Ransom, Wright, Bjullv, Colclough, Ta'dor, Foreman, MacKellar, Hjilair, Campbell, and Matthews. The minutes Hof previous meeting having been read and conllfirmel, the hon. Secretary announced that the Hcross uroceeda of the entertainment he’d on the 2lth nit., amounted to over €22. Mr MacKellar ) ’brought forward the following motion“ d'hat i the Secretary b > requested to write to the Waste Miami Board, asking that sections 3S, 37, and 38, [ 'Block 111., upon one of which the budding at | ipresent used as a Courthouse stands, may be granted to the Athememu Hal Committee as a I :fite for a building.” Carried unanimously. It |w.as then proposed and agreed “that the next rdeiitertainment take place on Thursday, 20th i ihma current.” Mr Colclough moved, and Mr | Tpresbaw seconded, “ that the Secretary write to ; pin Begg. of Dunedin, anl inquire upon what 5 Terms a piano suitable for a concert-hall could be ; had.” Canied. In response to a written apf plication received from Messrs Kelly, Holley, i Campbell, Hurley, and Gilchrist, who propose to [ form an amateur negro minstrel company, the 1 'Committee resolved to purchase a banjo, tambouI tine, ami triangle for the use of any hand of min- : strels that may be formed in connection with the papular entertainments ; and also agreed to cm- . j'mver the gentlemen above named to borroav |he instruments required pending the arrival of those ordered by the Committee. Messrs Colllough, F"aer, Whettef, and Preshaw were conItituted a Programme Committee m connection pith the ensuing entertainment. The Secretary was requested to write letters of thanks to the I ladies who gave their assistance at the late concert. It was intimated that practice could be continued as usual on Tuesday and Friday evenings, in the School-room ; and the Committee, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, adjourned till Saturday evening, the Bth iust.