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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 172, 25 February 1873, Page 5

• The tenders sent in for the furnishing of the new Court-house were in excess of the estimated co3 f , and lvne, therefore, w re accepted. However, under the supervision of the Warden] the work is being gone on with, and t,he building will likely ba'iit for occupation within a moftth*

Messrs (Joxh'ead Bros., weli-fenown Dunedin photographers, Lave just arrived from Clyde, aud advertise that they intend to rdiflain 1 here only fourteen days. We have been shown 1 specimen portraits and vieyvs taken by them, and have no hesitation in pronouncing them fully equal to any we have seen from the hands of previous visiting photographers. The publication of the Star of the East Comyany's balance-sheet is unavoidably delayed till next week. The construction of the railway from Tokomairiro to Lawrence will be shortly begun ; and its completion will do away with all chance of the famous Waipahi-Ettriok line,— the "Great Central Trunk." The following paragraph from the Tuapeka Times sets at rest the question as to the practicability of a line up the Molvneux, which was held by the supporters of the Waipahi route to be an impossible—or at le;ist an enormously expansive—undertaking : "Mr Carruthers, Engineer-in-Chief,. accompanied by Mr Blair, General Government Engineer, arrived in Lawrence on Tuesday afternoon. They attended a meeting of the Railway Committee the same evening ; and on the following day visited the Beaumont for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of exteuding the Tuapeka Railway up the valley of the Molyneux. They were agreeably surprised with the resources and population of the district, and are of opinion that a line from lawrence up-country would be one of the easiest to construct in the Colony." A meeting of members of the Cromwell Jockey Club was held in the Town-hall on Friday evening, 21st inst. The members present were—Mr Preshaw, president ;Mr Dawkins, vice-president; Mr Jolly, hon. treasurer; and Messrs Bastings, Marsh, and Matthews. The balauce-skeet for the past half-year, together with the Auditors' report on the finances of the Club, were read and adopted ; and a resolution giving effect to certain recommendations made l in the report was. passed unanimously. Votes ! of thanks were accorded to the auditors (Messrs Marsh andMaoKellar), and to the hon. treasurer (Mr Jolly) for the valuable services rendered to the Club by those gentlemen. In reference to the promised grant of 300 acres for a racecourse reserve, the President stated that at his request the Secretary for Gold-fields had given directions to the Survey Department to lay off the ground, and he was glad to say that the District Surveyor had received orders to do the work at once. It was agreed that the names of Messrs Preshaw, Dawkins, Jolly, Marsh, and Taylor should be sent to the Government with a recommendation that those gentlemen be appointed trustees for the management of the reserve. A resolution fixing Friday and Saturday, 26th and 27th December, as the time for holding the next annual race meeting, was unanimously adopted. A suggestion had been made at a previous meeting that the Club should hold races on the 17 th proximo (St. Patrick's Day) ; but in view of the fact that races are to take place at the Nevis, as well as at Cardrona and several other adjacent places, on the day mentioned, it was now decided to abandon the proposal. The customary vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the meeting to a close. a j

" Sigma," in the Witness, says it would appear that in Mr Peebles' heaven the spirits are to pursue the callings or occupations they followed while on earth. We confess that we have not read Mr Peebles on the subject; but, as " Sigma" has not been contradicted, it may be presumed that be correctly stated Mr Peebles' ideas as regards the life hereafter. Well, if after all our weary pilgrimage through this vale of tears we are to shift the venue merely to go the old round,—to endure to all eternity the hard grinding toil of bringing out a newspaper, with an occasional divertisement in the shape of hunting up outlying six shillingses,—we are not ashamed to say that we are in no hurry to move, and that we look forward to our " heavenly portion" with little joyousness to speak of. No, no, Mr Peebles ; if you can promise, us nothing better than this, we won't join your little band in its onward march to so melancholy a description of " Glory." Mr Grant's assertion that your " new and beautiful faith" is " insulting to God and degrading to man" has our decided support after this. ■ r '