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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 149, 17 September 1872, Page 7

During a heavy gale at Havelock recently, a small cutter was blown clean out of the water, and was left bottom upwards, with her masts sticking in the mud. Luckily, the crew were on shore. Apropos of Mr Anthony Trollope’s visit to Adelaide, a correspondent relates the following : —“lt appears that at a quiet supper party, the Chief Secretary, Mr Avers, expatiated on the merits of the neglected Colony lof South Australia. 1 What was there,’ said I he, ‘ that South Australia could not produce I better than England ? Her corn was nnrij vailed, her wool was famous throughout the I world, so were her mines, and in process of time she was likely to be as much noted for I being a wine-producing country as France.’ ; Said the Chief Secretary, turning to Air Trollope, ‘ Can you sav in what production England can excel South Australia?’ ‘ How about Prime Ministers ?’ was Mr Trollope’s quiet remark—causing a roar of laughter round the table.” A writer in one of the Christchurch papers congratulates the inhabitants of that place on the fact that a Reformatory is about to be erected in their midst, and adds “ I hope it will be one capable of admitting many inmotes. I do really. There are so many young men from eleven to sixteen qualifying themselves for regular lodgers, ami so many I could se-‘ away from the metropolis without a murmur. The boys that hung about tlio Xew Zealand Bank corner on Sunday night , the boys that hang about the doors of places where anything is “going on:” who smoke—who dab cigar ends in little girls' faces ; who swear abroad, and think they are manly by so doing ; who make themselves a nuisance regularly on all occasions—are a large item. _ Canterbury has much to be proud of, but this province can say, and say it b°ldly, that her larrikins are excelled by none and equalled by few. If the small-pox would confine itself to larrikins what a really charmmg institution it might be made.