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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 177, 1 April 1873, Page 4

Owing to the temporary absence of Mr Simpson, 11. M. an I Warden, there were no Courts held at Cromwell last Thursday. We understand that the new Court-house will probably be ready for occupation early next week. We learn that Mr M'Nulty lias sub-let forty chains of the Point Hoad contract to Mr | Baker, of the Dunstan. The sub-contractor has j commenced work at the north end of the line ; so the construction of the road is proceeding simultaneously from both extiemities. Bishop Nevill, Anglican Bishop of Dunedin, preached in Kidd’s Hall last Sunday evening. A very large congregation, many of whom came five or six miles, gathered to hear his I lordship, who preached an earnest and impresI sive sermon upon the absence of Hope—Christian Hope—in the world, ending with an energetic appeal to his hearers to encourage Christianity in their midst by liberal subscriptions to tht CUwU,v • • -v

The quarterly sitting of the Snprei Court at Dunedin commences on Monday dc: the 7th inst. The meeting of directors advertised be held on Saturday evening, lapsed for want a sufficient attendance. Another crushing of 100 tons from t John Bull claim is now going on at the Nil Di peraudum Company’s battery. The Elizabeth Q.M. Company finished ; crushing of 160 tons on Saturday, with the sat factory yield of 113 ozs. 8 dwta. We remind dog and goat owners tlj now is the time to register those animals, as ( registration year expired yesterday. Morven Hills Station waa submitted auction a few days ago in Dunedin. The hi reached as far as £130,000; but Mr M‘U bought in the property at £IO,OOO beyond tl amount. Tambourini has been sold in Dnnedi for £4OO. Golden Cloud, we notice, -has on more changed Iran Js ; this time at £29. Peers ran at the Nelson Races, and her appearan evoked great cheering. The programme of the approaching coi cert at Bannockburn appears in our advertis nient columns. Friday evening is the date fixe for the entertainment ; and as there will be goo moonlight, we have no doubt the affair will J tract a large attendance. Robert Glover, an actor who recentl performed in seve al up-country townships, is custody upon a charge of stealing a suit of cloth from the Crown Hotel, Switzers, belonging to hawker named William Felton. He was {« warded to Switzers, on remand from Dunedw, The Pneumatic Dredging Company! Clyde are reported to have struck pay at ground. They have moored on that portion the river formerly held and partially worked I the Alabama Dredge, and one day recently th took eight ounces of gold from the bottom o[ cylinder. The following is the only matter of lot interest transacted at the last meeting of the Wasi Lan 1 Baird in Dane lin :—“ A request from 1] William Colville for information how a leases part of the Gold-fiel Is . adjoining Mr Henr Campbell’s Run, Lake Wanaka, could be ol tained, was remitted to the Governmo it.’’ - The partial completion of the Poin Road has been the means of affording a new'at agreeable resort for Sunday prornena lers. Las Sunday the road was thronged with tow'nspeopl to many of whom the view of Cromwell arid it surroundings from the oppo.d’o bank of tl Clutha has hitherto been an unattainable sourt of pleasure. : A full report of the races held at Oar drona on St. Patrick’s Da , kindly prepared I; a correspondent, was posted at Cardroiu on ill 19th inst., and should have reached us on tl following day ; but the packet having been mis sent to Dunedin, did not come to hau l till tli mornhig of the 23th, Another letter from thi same locality, enclosing an advertisement whit! appears in to-day's issue, also reached us by tl same circuitous route. We are unable to a; how the mistake occurred, but hope it will nd happen again. While Messrs Peebles and Dunn wen in Dunedin, the question was often asked,Where was Dr Dunn’s diploma ? or whence it ceived ? The answer to the first question m that it had been left in America, while as toll second a discreet silence was maintained. Ontb authority of “The Spiritual Pilgrim, a Bio; raphy of James M. Peebles,” (recently review i by the DaiUj Times,) it is satisfactory to kn« | tint “ Dr E. C. Dunn is duly diplomatised medical schools of the spirit land." !!! The Charleston Herald notifies with plea sure that no newspapers were stolen from tin library in that township in the week ending March 8. Happy township ! We are afraid that in a: single week could the same be said with truth of the Cromwell Public Library. Continually complaints are being made of newspapers ad magazines disappearing. Melbourne papers seen to be especially fancied. Surely the Library Commi tee might take steps decisively to secure the discontinuance of a practice so annoying H the great bulk of the subscribers. As an example of truth of the proverb to the effet that we must go from home to he# news of ourselves, we cut the following from th( i letter of the Dunstan correspondent to the Tt* j pe!ca Times: —“ Being a peaceful commun'd i here, under the heading ‘breach of the peace j would have to say nil, did not a mighbnurinj town kindly supply the deficiency. A (.'roinwd landlady of some celebrity, and her two gwj agreed to differ one day lately, when the lattt contrived to have the stove heated to high prefj i sure pitch, and on it they set the poor ladj threatening to roast her alive. She however, to make her escape, but with vb amount of injury I have not heard, as it has nf vet transpired so far whether either or hot i doctors the town supplies were called in atW > dance, hut something was said about requiring l ■ cushioned chair. The ringleader was fined £ i or one month’s imprisonment ; and the accotf ; plice was ordered to leave the town in half ß : hour, or she would be taken in charge, wto * she accordingly did, returning again next uw r ' mS*' 4 '

The season for shooting all kinds; of native game commenced to day. I It is reported, on good authority ijnd pretty conclusive evidence, that a live moa has been seen in the Waiau district, Southland. ; A telegram dated Riverton, 25th ult., says “ The three missing sealing boats have arrived with 327 seal skins. They went north of Bruce’s Bay, for potatoes, On returning thev sailed in at Milford Sound, where they went ee'ing at one of the inland lakes. At night lliey saw a tire opposite, when they visited the spot and saw the tracks of three or four persons who are supposed to be the remnant of some wild Maoris living in the mountains. The men are probably those who were seen at Bligh Souijid, some years ago, by Captain’Howell!' A Southland Maori Chief asked assistance from Government to search for them last summer, from Te Anau'Lake to the coast.” 1 A curious accident happened at"'Cardrona on Monday, the 21th nit. Robert Millar, one of the' Enterprise DeepjSinking Company, had gone along the flaming to turn on the water. The gate had got into rather bad order by some means—probably being swollen—and was therefore harder to work than usual. While Mr Millar was striving to open it, the handle gave way ; and he was precipitated from the flaming, to the ground, a distance of some fifteen feet. H« was quite insensible when he was picked up ; and his face and neck were fearfully discoloured and in places greatly swollen. However, he has recovered much more vapidly than the nature of the accident would have led one to anticipate. A very old Otagun settler, named John PuT, has committed suicide at Pork Molyncnx. Fur a number of years dining the infancy of the M/ttlement, he resided and plied his trade of giioemaking in the North-East Valley, near Dunedin. Recently he had taken to drink heavily, and had led a wandering life. He was lost seen on Christmas monvnsr, when at about 8 o'clock he procured a single drink at a hotel in Port Mol.meux. From the hotel-bar it is evident that he proceeded across the Puerua riven —only a hundred yards or so distant.—to a clump of bush, and there hung himself with a piece of flax. When he was found.- -a few days ago,—the flesh had for the most part rotted from his hones ; and he is said to have presented a fearful sight. Duff leaves a wife arid family, resident in Dunedin.—.ln- the WeDimjton -Province, a man named Noble was recently found dead beside a brandy case, winch it has been proved he stole. He left a valedictory letter of warning to drunkards. The Invercargill correspondence l of the Dunedin Star has the -foliowing “ Last Sufl.day we had a case of revivalism in Invercargill. The representative of an Assurance Society on a visit to Southland, after transacting business in connection with the life that now is, took up. the interest of that which is to come, He got a goodly company to -ether under the auspices of the Reformed Methodists, and delivered a discourse characterised by load thumps and gesticulations. A kind of panic ensued, in the midst of which the preacher invited ‘ all those who had received the Holy Ghost’ to stand up. The call was obeyed by about a dozen, chiefly women and young girls. At this j uncture the preacher, who occupied a platform, stretched himself nut on the most approved principle of the spread-eagle, and with an awful vehemence exclaimed. ‘Thank God for the manifestation of his power!* The scene produced is said to have been an exciting one. The remainder of the evening, to within an hour or so of midnight, was occupied in chanting ‘psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.’” The following will interest Cardrona l)tv iCrs :• -The Arrow Observer has another 11 wire ni for the lights of the district it represents. It says that “in the various escort returns published lately the returns from the Arrow district have been divided-the amount from Cardrona being placed separately. This may at first sight seem a matter of small consequence, but it has the effect of considerably reducing the apparent amount of gold sent from this district. As wel 1 - might the amounts accredited to Queenstown be apportioned under the headings of Upper Shotover, Moonlight, &c. ; or the Cromwell returns he divided between Bendigo Gully, Bannockburn, Sc. The escort returns are invariably looked upon as the index of prosperity of gold-fields districts, an I it will readily be seen that the system we have pointed out is calculated to injure the credit of this place as a gold-producing district. It is to be hoped those having the Manipulation of the escort returns will take a Mne of this.” This is the old argument, but Mi,fortunately for our contemporary the analogy j'ill not hold good. ’Tis true that Cardrona is M the Arrow division of the Wakatip district, hut has been of sufficient importance to he svorthy of a bank of her own, and is therefore l u ' ke to have her gold definitely represented. It strikes us that our contemporary has Mvle a noose for its own neck, and that the manipulation” spoken of should refer to its attempt to gat credit for that which it has no to. However, if our friends over the roffn Range are content to be ignored, we a ,- c Hjally satisfied ; hut it is not likely that they lie put off in such a way. In neither Arrow t0 - Queenstown proper is perhaps an ounce of S°M obtained ; but as the latter is the only emporium in this division, it is quite proper that all to treasure hails from hero, - Wakatip MdU,

Au extraordinary, affiliation (mo was aljudicvtel upon by Mr Beetham at Queenstown on the 20th inst. We quote from the Mail: “ William Pauliu appeared to answer a complaint, made by Catherine Doyle, that he refused to support her illegitimate child, of which he was stated to be the father.” The plaintiff made a statement to the following effect:—That, while at service W'th Messrs Paulin and Wills, the defendant (Paulin) on one occasion got'her-to drink three glasses of sherry while talking over the kitchen fire, and then took advantage of her. She swore she had had no connection with aj'ny. - one else. : Paulin, on the contrary,''dftiifV'that he had ever given her sherry, or tjiat he ijad ever had connection with her on any occasion.A peculiarity in connection with the affair is that Paulin, at the time of the alleged connection, - was engaged to be married to the plaintiffs sister, Ellen Doyle ; but the' match has since been broken off. Mr Beetham dismissed the case ; and the following is the concluding paragraph of his judgment:—“ The necessity for the corroboration of the mother’s evidence in some material point is no doubt a wise provision of the Legislature, and is a salutary check upon the designs of unprincipled women against innocent parties. (This may press hardly in some cases.) It appears also reasonable that a woman, in seeking to establish a claim of this nature, should come into Court with very clean hands. We find the complainant has, on many occasions, suffered herself to be overcome with liquor; and she seems also to have behaved with so much levity of manner as to have induced one suitor, at least (who was paying his addresses to her about the time when the mischief complained of was done) to withdraw his pretensions to her hand. lam impelled to the conclusion that the corroborative evidence which the Ordinance renders imperatively necessary is, in this case, wanting. Cases of this sort are invariably fraught with a considerable degree of difficulty and un- j certainty; but I think this is more than ordi i narily difficult. Ido not wish to throw any dis-1 credit: upon the statement of either party : J cannot pretend to say where the truth lies ; 1 can only say that the corrobcotive evidence on some material point, without which no ad- j judication can he made, is, in my opinion, want-1 ing. The unfortunate girl is no doubt sufficiently' punished for her sin ; and should her story he: the,truth—a question on which it is impossible for mo to offer an opinion—the feelings of the defendant can be of no enviable, description. The seduc'ion of a girl is bad enough, but the repudiation of the result of such intercourse, by deliberate perjury, appears to me to be a crime of so monstrous’ a nature that the clearest evidence mus,t be for thconiirigdiefore any man-should be found guilty of it;”