GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 151, 1 October 1872, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

. A Sharebrokers'Association has been formed at the Thames. . , Mr J. C. Brown, M.H.R., telegraphs to the. Lawrence Railway Committee that Mr Stafford pledges the Government to commence the Tuapeka railway during the present summer. The recent Australian telegrams appear to have greatly disturbed the Thames miners. About 200. people left Auckland last week in the barque Hokitika for Queensland. More vessels are laid on for Australia, and an exodus is feared. A well-known member of the Provincial Council, (says the Tuapeka Times,) for a goldtields constituency, has been fortunate enough to procure the responsible and distinguished office of cook, the onerous duties appertain ing to which he is said to perform in a highly efficient manner. The Rev. Dr Begg, Rev. Mr Peebles, and Dr Dunn, are all expected shortly via San Francisco. Th e first-named is th e well-know n and eminent D.D., —the other two are Spiritualistic missionaries on an Australian tour. The bane and antidote will thus be both before the citizens of Dunedin.— Echo. A preliminary meeting is reported to have been held in Mr Brogden's office in Wellington on the 23rd inst., to consider the formation of a company with a capital of £500,030, to be raised mainly in England by Mr Brogden and the Trust and Agency Co. jointly, for the purpose of undertaking the construction of water-races on the gold-field. The Maories in Otago seem to be rapidly advancing in civilisation and adopting the manners and customs of the Europeans. We £1 in a late Dunedin paper that the ninth hday of the eldest son of .Mr Taiaroa, 1.R., who will succeed his father as Maori chief, was celebrated recently at Otago Heads, in grand style, and in the presence of two hundred people. ' A recent woman-suffrage meeting in London was so crowded that the speakers, when they arrived, could not get in. Mrs Professor Fawcett and others climbed in by a ladder at a window behind the stage, and when she came to speak, said : " We are told that women have not so much energy as men. I deny it. A moment ago I was outside of this room in the thick of a crowd with Mr Arthur Arnold. Mr Arnold is still in the crowd. I am here." The little woman wa3 roundly applauded. The Wellington Independent has the followin;,':— "The Emniwj Pod last night stated that Mr T. L. Shepherd's speech was addressed entirely to the Hansard reporters, ami was also ' a failure.' This statement, is not true. The lion, member made a speech \{ two hours' duration, and the House was in.icli more largely filled than is usual at a time when the fag end of a debate has been reached. The member for Dunstan has succsscully overcome the ooject'ons which at first attached to his assumpfcional altitude, aid has shown to the House that he lias a .fair knowledge of public affairs, and has au honest.desire to further the interests of the Colony and his constituents." j A correspond*, nfc of the Wanganui Herald sjyis:—Mr M'GilU»ray followed on the side «f the Government. This is another ScotchC'romv,"" a bush parson, with strong leanings I'lyde Mosaic law, and a very severe ritual. 'AVonld make you laugh to see Mr M'Gillivray on his legs. His style is that of the tub-thumper. He emphasises each sentence byjirokmging the last word, and simultaiivmsly bending his body forward diagonally until his nose comes in contact with the blot-tmg-paper, while his extended right arm comes down upon the desk. At such times he reminds me of " Brudder Bones" in one of his famous stump orations, and he only Wants the umbrel'a to complete the picture. Ross (says a West Coast paper) is not in ,such a reduced state as common report represents. The News of Tuesday, referring to Haselmayer's performance, says:—"A perfect Pactolean shower, not of gold, but oi silver, descends, rises up, comes from all quarters ; out of the candles, from the birds, from ladies' head dresses—everywhere. The Professor gleans the money as he receives il horn the invisible genii who attend him, deposits it in a hat, and when tired of the rea hsation of the dream, empties it all upon a tray, and exhibits it to the spectators." : li the Professor would only improve his performance by giving away the money, as well as 'exhibiting," he would probably draw even greater houses than he does. . - The luaugahua correspondent of the Gm Rmr Argus says :—The facility with which the marriage tie can be dissolved on goldfields generally is notorious, but in this part of the world the generally strong noose is more easily slipped off than in any other that it has been my fortune to inhabit. The o fcl; er d ay, tor example, I was strolling down Broadway when I encountered two old acquaintances, "'"king as far from disconsolate as was possible After die common salutations, I ventured to make the usual complimentary inquiries after their respective better-halves when they told me that the ladies in questioi Had thought fit to transfer their affections without even going through the brief Ameri can divorce process, to other favoured swains and the affair seemed to be regarded by then radier in the light of a good joke than otherwise, ihere was not a bit of romance in tin matter,— the parties concerned living cVs- tc each other on the most amicable terms with . out, the least suspicion of clandestine 'elope ?cnt or concealment. These couples, too, t< my knowledge were lawfully married, am on o them had been joined in the holy state « matrimony for twelve or fourteen rears