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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 149, 17 September 1872, Page 4

The following is the composition of [\ I new Colonial Government, according to lata | advices Mr Stafford is Premier, and hasten jporary charge of the Native Department - V Gillies, Treasurer ; Mr Reid, Minister of Work jMr Fitzherliert, Secretary ; Mr Curtis, p I)S master-General and Commissioner of Custom IMr Newell represents the Government i n t k i Upper House, ft is said that Mr James Macka, | of the Thames, will be appointed for the Helen | Department. Mr Stafford was to make bi I Ministerial Statement on Friday last. In the Warden’s Court on Thursdai during the hearing of the Royal Standard Coa pany’s application for protection, the Warde stated that the holders of prospecting claim were expected to display more energy than thos who held ordinary claims. He had made tl same remark on a previous occasion, but i seemed his meaning had been misunderstood. On Thursday evening next, at Kidd' Concert-hall, a “Grand Auction Bazaar,”-o “ Bruce’s Auction,”—is to be held, ia aid of tl funds of the Dunstan District Hospital. It j to be conducted under the management of tl Cromwell Local Committee. We uni erst as that an exceedingly miscellaneous collection 8 articles of more or less value are to be offered and doubtless, considering the object in view ready and advantageous sale will be met wi'l We do not require to sound the praises of tb institution ; to tell the need that exists in coa uection with it for an amplitude of funds, or tin good that will arise therefrom. The Crorawel people have not been laggard in the matter o subscribing in the past to the Hospital ; and n one for a moment can doubt that the sum to b raised on Thursday evening will be one worth ot the district. Mr A. H. .Taggers informs us that hj anticipates being enabled to commence brewin, operations at Hartley’s Beach in about a fort night from the present date. The Dunst in Spring Race Meeting take place on Friday and Saturday next. A larinumber of entries have been received for th handicaps. A few weeks ago we reported the dis every on the Carrick Range, by Mr Thom; Hall, of the Nil Desperandmn Company, of lode of metallic ore, of which there was ever appearance of an inexhaustible supply, and alsi a second discovery of the same kind of orebj Mr Jacob Johnston, at a place about three m.lei distant from the heale. of the former find. M Hall forwarded a sample to Professor Blackb analysis, and the Professor found it (as we lean from the Daily / hues) to contain G8 per cent, o metallic antimony. 20 S per cent, of sulphur, and J per cent, of quartz and other impurities, from which the antimonv can be cheaply separatedbj mere fusion. On Thursday last Mr Hall showed us a sample of the ore containing auriferous quarfi in which specks of gold were plainly visible. I 1 or the convenience of the miners wit were in waiting at the Court-house when til R M. s Court business was concluded on Thursday last, Mr \\ arden Carew intimated that ht would hear the applications before entering iat! the other business of the Warden’s Court. We feel confident that, were the same plan adopted as a rule, applicants for certificates would be saved considerable loss of l ime, besides the expense necessarily incurred through their detention in Cromwell for an indefinite number of hours on Court-day.

At the lust meeting of the Waste LanJ I Board in Dunedin, the following matters affect | ing this district were brought under considersj tiou .-—Mr I). Maclvellar, for Messrs M‘Corraicl , and Co., objected to a coal lease applied far bv | Mr I* .I*l Dagg, at Bannockburn, beintrgranted. ! It appeared that the objectors were building* bridge near the coal lease, and were afraid the i coal lease area would be in the way of the approaches. It was resolved that notice of theobi jcction should he sent to Mr Dags, and to Messrs Gillies and Street, his agents, and that tile Warden he requested to report upon the j m atter.— Application was made by Mr Arch- | b 'ld .\!'Lend for a lease of fifty acres neat Wakefield, with the consent of the runholder. I ho fan I was situate on a run in a gold-field I'iie application was referred to the Government. , Mr Gisborne s political life while that I gentleman was a member of the Fox Government. was described hv one of the Northj ei’n papers as being one demnition grind j Toe grinding has finished, and Mr Gisborne hsi resigned his seat as a member of the Houstfanl will proceed to draw as Commissioner of Lit* Assurance and Annuities his comfortable salary’ I of £BiK> per annum. “ Wanted, good waiter, male or female jno other need apply. Times Restaurant.” Such is an advertisement appearing in the Dnil) Times of the 12th instant. We have ah*) 1 | been under the impression that the hum 3ll j species boasted only two genders. Evidently* I mistake on our part, if there is any warrant f» r the requirement, ‘‘male or female: no other I need apply.”

The Home mail, via San Francisco, will lose at Cromwell on Tuesday next. The Committee of the Cromwell Public jbrary are taking the necessary steps towards btaining a grant of land on the Lower Flat as ■endowment for that institution. Mr Loughnan. r: p;.» a*-*:— u-_ linages vt oivuuwxwi, uum/iuu, iiao uunacuusa übehalf of the runholders tothe extinguishment f the Crown tenants’ title to the ground ; and nplicatiou has been made to the Provincial Goernment to set aside the block for the purpose bove indicated. A Dunedin correspondent informs us bat the whaling companies stationed at Otago leads and Waikouaiti have been very successful uring the past month, no less than five whales jfing been secured during that period. At the jpture of one of the “fish,” the Waikouaiti were towed a distance of 30 miles by the master they had harpooned before it yielded its jge carcase to the captors, the return journey eing accompanied with the positions reversed, Q d in a much less expeditious manner.

The subjoined information concerning be Bannockburn School was furnished to ns for ablication last week, but arrived too late to meive attention: —The gross proceeds of last incert amounted to £lB Is. At a meeting of ommittee, Mr Stuart was authorised to settle |1 accounts connected with the school ; and it as agreed that all unacknowledged subscripons, together with the receipts and expenses of ie last two entertainments, should be adverse! Messrs Stuart and Simpson were deputed ,wait upon Mr Cowan, of Kawarau Station, •ith the object of securing his concurrence in ie matter of obtaining a grant of land as a ;hool reserve. The Secretary was instructed to pply to the Education Board for the customary anual allowance to side-school teachers. Mr oulton’s resignation of the secretaryship was v ; ml and accepted, and a vote of thanks was T-eed to him for past services. Mr Simpson asAppointed to fill the vacancy. The date of eit entertainment—which it is understood will s for the benefit of the schoolmaster—was fixed >r the 18th of October.

A gentleman writing from Melbourne, as furnished the Tuapeka Times with the folding “ The Roper River gold-fields are now ie theme of conversation among the restless jrtion of the Victorian mining population, and the reports current as to the discovery of rich il extensive gold-fields in the Northern Terri-

ory be confirmed by authentic news, a heavy Bsh will take place. Already the Condor has ailed with 130 miners on board. The Bengal [ill leave in a few days with another batch, and ie Omeo is laid on to leave for the Roper early [September. Private letters are said to have m received describing the sinking as shallow, id the ground as wonderfully rich, —the writers itting from 100 to 200 ounces of gold from the ittom of their shafts. Of course, the private ita may be concocted for sinister purposes, it they serve to fan the excitement and create restless and uneasy feeling. The surplus popuitiou of Sandhurst and Ballarat are eager to try ■esh fields. ” A telegram from Melbourne in the W;/ Times says, “ The s.s. Omeo sailed for Wnsville and Port Darwin at the same time as itTararua, taking 216 steerage and 40 saloon issengers. Other steamers were also sailing ill of passengers for the new diggings at Char' :ts Towers, near Townsville ’’—Sydney news te the rush to the new diggings at Charters Wers, is causing excitement. They are alluial, and the sinking is only four feet. Later wants say that the reports regarding the digings are much exaggerated. °