QUEENSTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 159, 26 November 1872, Page 5

QUEENSTOWN.

( From our uwu Correspondent.) .November 23, 1872. The weather for the p ist fortnight has been lovely, though too dry for fie crops. As a rule, the farms in the district look uncommonly well, the snow which lay on the ground during the winter having apparently given crops of all descriptions an impetus. A singular and melancholy death occurred last Thursday. The deceased, Mr Thomas Brown, was a sheep-owner living at the 2aMilo, Lake ; and on Thursday week, whilst tailing lam us, ho happened to place tire Lit of the knife between his tenth. A ewo j e >‘ke I her head no, and forced the knife down Mr Browns throat. A.ter the kni o was extracted, ho went about his ordinary wo>k, apparently none the worse ; but on Saturday night he became speechless, and until the moment he died anpeared to have lost his senses. Alter he was conveyed to Queenstown, he was seized with paralysis of the one side, and died on Wednesday night. The fact that he was supporting a widowed sister and her children, renders the case still more distressing. Un Tuesday, Mr P. B. Boult was eie'ted Town Clerk, and the choice of the Council appears to have given general satisfaction, hiow tuat the Clerk has to collect the dog-tax, hotel-licences, etc., tiie bidet is no sinecure.

Messrs Hiohardt’s and Powell’s hotels are ramdlv approaching completion, and give Pallarat-street much the ar-oearance of a thoroughfare in a large cit ‘ The Town Hall has at length had the finishing touche's put to it, and it really looks quite handsome now —outside. The pi an > purchased in Cromwell for our Choral Society is now in tho Town Hall, a.id proves a great boon to tho members of the society.

I’ l mining matters things arc pretty much in statu quo.