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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 145, 20 August 1872, Page 5

, Tonight, the Amateur Entertainment ) ai »dof the Bannockburn School Building Fund ** t& ke place. The attendance ought°to be m, seeing that at present we have such briltot moonlight. The polling for the election of a member «the Provincial Council for Caversham took m on Thursday, the loth inafc., and resulted jfollowa :-Stout, 149 ; Fish, 110 ; Leary, 90 ilr Stout was therefore declared elected. On Thursday evening next, the third of «»seriesi of Popular Entertaiumeuts is to be Ck Ki ' ld ' 3 HalL A first-class programme «» been prepared.-We have been requested to ,wgis e f or the omis3ion imm tlle p rinte(i tbe perform mce of the name of Mr John •WW, as one of the instrumentalists. A cake of gold weighing Slozs. 17dwts. product of 186 tons of stone-was depoZ & \ h f Bank at Cromwell on Friday, on acr»ot the Star of the East Oompanv. The lact fW° n the usual aver age is explained by the « lit a gOCKI deal of the stuff operated upon S • froin the fcuanel in process of H»lWv m v 1? mine ~ a mixture of quartz and «riv a Was consi(iereil tof > good to throw itcMk j Was tQerefor e put into the hopper to W*d P al °" g with tbe sound Btone -- Tll e tie r \ a ™panies* batt«ry ie now crushing foT

The first crushing .of the Golden Flejsce Co., Reef ton, yialtle.l 12500 ounces of anulgain from 400 tons of stone. ... I Constable James Morkane, formerly* of Cromwell, his boon transferred from Alexandra to Baklnthn. The change we understand; is equivalent to promotion.

The Wakatip District'Annual Ploughin? Match is to take place «n Thursday, September 5, on the farm of Mr I. Hallenstein. Prizes are offered for double and single furrow ploughs.

The Rev. Mr Coffey, of Queenstown, has accepted charge of the pastorate of Tokomairiro. The present pastor of that congregation, the Rev. R. L. Stanford, is to fill the pulpit of St. 1 uke's Church, North Dunedin.

It is rumoured that a new quartz reef, 14 feet wide, has been discovered at Glensyret, about five miles from Milton, and that several claims have been pegged off. The snow storm has, however, put a stop to prospecting. In reply to the question asked in our last issue by the " Subscriber to the Hutton Fund," Mr Owen Pierce, the hon. treasurer, requests us to state that, if the subscriber will communicate with him regarding the matter, the omission of his name from the published list will be explained.

The Elizabeth Company cleaned up a crushing of 111 tons from their own claim on Wednesday last. The quantity of gold obtained was 74ozs. 2.Jdwts. Mr John To wan has been appointed working manager for the Company, an 1 under his direction the operations of raising and crushing quartz from the mine are being vigorously carried on.

We clip the following from the Daily Time* of the 12th insfc. : —" A quartz battery of five heads, with engine and plant complete, is now being made at Mr Wilson's foundry for the Nil Pesperandum Company, Cirriek Range. The weight of the stampers is sJewt. each, and the battery is constructed on the triangular fiame principle."

The Daily Turns " has it on the best, authority that an estimable member of the Presbyterian Ministry living in the country has a haunted Manse. Strange noises are heard at unseemly times, and men do but the cause thereof is never visib'e to mortal eye. The Society for Investigating Spiritualism should not overlook, so promising a field for their labours." The conversazione held in Dunedin in celebration of the 101st anniversary of the birth of Walter Scott was very successful. Mr Trollope was not present ; but a very ah'e speech by Professor M'(rre,'or is said to have amply made up fir his absence. The prooosal to form a Scott Scholarship which was mooted last year is not to b-i allowed to sleep anv longer ; and it is hoped that the Scholarship will soon be an accomplished fact.

Mr Bews, District Kngineer, has surveyed the approaches to the site of the Kawarau Rri Ige, and it is confidently expected that the necessaty cuttings will be commenced within tw >or three weeks from the present time. The work of forming the approaches will necessarily I be of some magnitnle ; and will afford employ- ! ment to a number of men for at least a couple of months. The cutting will most probably be let by contract. j The Arrr»ii Ohwuer of the 16th inst. says : —Som.' week-, sioce a robb tv was reportd to Sergeant, Hunt of a considerable sum of money and a pi'v.-d of specimen unlets from the dwel-ling-house of Mr Robert Watson, Arrow.o.vn, and the depredation was. till a few days aso, i shrouded in inystury. It would saetn, however, 1 '■hat the nobee hid not given the matter up, ;;s I on Wednesday two well-known residents were arrested on suspicion. On Th'irsH" morning, j both part ; es were brought for examination. One I of them, John Ferguson, was at once discharged, I without a stain on his character, the cause of his I arrest beinsrsome mist ike in the. identification of the party who sold the stolen gold. The accusation against Samuel Holly was gone into, but we are unable to give any particulars this issue further than that he has confessed the crime, and been committed for trial to the Supreme Court." The troupe of Japanese performers who recently arrived in Dunedin are drawing good houses. Some of their feats are rather extraordinary. The Daily Times says :—" The ' pedal balancing' of Matz Noski was simply astonishing. His head, body, and arms resting on the tah'e, he tossed a large barrel in the air in nvery direction with his monkey-like feet, and then supported a high inverted pyramid of tubs with the utm >st steadiness. His crowning display of skill an 1 strength was the sustaining of this pyramid with his feot whilst the girl Yoshi Matz climbed to the summit, and actually stool there for some tune." Yoshi Matz does th?.! slack-rope business; and Sak»taroo performs] clever sleight-of-hand tricks. " The real marvel of the troupe is a little fellow styled Chicazo, or j 'All liight.' The amazing contortions of his body, and his daring gymnastics, would bo al- | most painful to witness, were it not for the appa- j rent ease with which he performs them, an I th ; | evident pleasure he derives from the exhibition of his skill."

We are informed that the fall of snow in the vicinity of the Nevis list week was much heavier than at any previous time timing the past nine years. For several days the snow lay in the Nevis Vallev to an average depth of two feet; whilst on the ranges on either side ther; were wreaths of snow-drift from twenty to fifty feet deep. Mr Hurley, the mailman, who left Cromwell for the Nevis yesterday week, was unable to return till Friday, and even then would not have attempted the perilous journey bad he not been accompanied by an experienced m mntaineer, in the person of Mr George .Starkey. Serjeant Cassels visited the Nevis township on Friday, and returned late on Saturday nisht. He describes the appearance of the Neyis Valley, viewed by moonlight from the. southern slope of the Carriek Kaage, as a scene of uncommon beauty and grandeur. The upper township—distant at least a dozen miles from the point of observation—was distinctly visible amid the dazzling whiteness of the surrounding landscape ; while, the rapidly flowing river could be clearly traced in its devious windings through the vast expanse of snow and ice.