BANNOCKBURN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 177, 1 April 1873, Page 6

BANNOCKBURN.

(From an occasional Correspondent.) 1 see the President of our Mining Association has been getting it rather warm at the hands of your Association, owing to his alleged negligence in not giving an account of his stewardship since his return from the Conference at Tuapeka. There certainly does seem something like neglect in his not having done so, considering something like three months have elapsed since that meeting. It is very unlike his usual style of doing things, especially anything appertaining to naming m ..tters, as witness the energy he displayed in the formation of the Bannockburn and Garrick Range Miners’ Association. However, as I should think he can hardly let the remarks made at the meeting in Cromwell go by without some explanation, I shall wait before saying anything more on the matter. I think that instead of the Bannockburn Association being a mistake, as Mr Fraer says, it will compare very favourably with your Cromwell one, which to all appearance these last few months has seemed to be a thing of the past ; for T have seen no notice of any meeting or any business they have done, since the election of delegate, to lead one to believe it was still in existence. The formation of the Bannockburn Association seems to have wakened it up, however : let us hone it will not go to sleep again so calmly. The Concert in aid of our school funds is to come off on the 4th prox., and by the way it is talked of I fancy there will be a very good attendance if the weather is line. The Committee intend having one of these concerts about four times a year. The principal use the proceeds will be put to, now that the building is paid for, will be to meet the teacher’s salary, which, since the Education Board has granted a subside, has been fixed at £l4O a year. Hitherto it has been at a miserably low figure. A miner working in Bailey’s Cully came across a piece of a Moa’s egg in the gravel, the other day. This is the first piece of egg that has to my knowledge been found in this district, although great numbers of lames of all sizes and descriptions are met with when working, some of them at a great depth. Nearly all that I have seen are very much decayed. The last few showers of rain we have had have freshened up the creeks again ; but still some of the races have not the quantity of water running in them that their owners could wish to see. But as the weather is still very unsettled, it will probably not bo long before all have plenty. March 28, 1873.