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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 182, 6 May 1873, Page 4

The Colleen Bawn Q.M. Company had a crushing of 46 tons finished at Logan’s battery on F-iday, The yield of gold was IS oz. 7 dwt, !^r - During the sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court heic last Thursday, Henry Campbell, Fsip, of Wanaka Station, was trill a l 'y sworn in, before Mr Simpson, as a Justice of the Peace Letters for the nnclernamecl persons are now lying unclaimed at Cromwell Post-office Jas. Alexander, Annie Corbett, Timothy dairy, Mr Freshman, Edwd. Mackintosh, lloht. Muir, Geo. I’obinson, lloht. Sluuv. The Revs. Messrs Todd and Ryley arrived in Cromwell, on their homeward journey, on the afternoon of the 20th nit. Mr llyley preicheil in the School-house the same evening; and both gentlemen left for Wanaka on Wednesday. The anniversary ball of Court Royal Oak of Kawarau takes place at the Bannockburn Hotel on Friday evening, the 9th inst. We are requested to notify that visitors from the Groinwed side of the river will he crossed at Mr llichards’s ferry free of charge. The Rev. Mr Drake delivered the concluding portion of In's lecture on “ Mary, Queen d Scots,” at the Town-hall, Cromwell, on Thursday evening. The room was again crowded, and the lecture was extremely interesting from beginning to end. The rev. gentleman also lectured on the same subject at Bannockburn on the fallowing night. The third of the series is announced for the 15th inst. Jn last week’s issue we recorded the finding of human remains believed to he those of Mrs Fdizaheth Harvey, who lost her life on the oast hank of the Kawarau, opposite Deep Greek, on the 19th of last December. At the inquest, which was held at the 11 oaring Meg Hotel ( |0 Tiusday hast, before Air Coroner Simpson and*, jury, the remains were identified by .hr H. Harvey, tbc husband of the unfortunate womans and a verdict was returned to tbc effect that tl>® deee-sod lust her life through falling over a precj picc into the Kawarau I liver. 'The re main j | were interred in tin Cromwell Cemc’cry Tuesday evening. 3

On May 10, a walking match is to come o {f in Dunedin, between Edwards, a Californian pedestrian, and Macgregor, of local fame, for £25 a side : distance, seven miles. The.Cromwell Presbyterian congregation baa unanimously decided to adopt the use of the English Presbvterian Hymn-book. Mr. I. Wright, bookseller, will shortly be in a position to supply copies. The arbitrators' in the case of Mr J. D. feraud’s claim on the Government for compensation, have awarded him £220. Mr Feraud claimed £IO2O. The arbitrators were Messrs T. E. Shepherd and J. C. Chappie, and the umpire >lr John Beighton. By the Dunstan Times of Friday last, ve notice that a Mrs Main, wife of a miner at present in the Dunstan Hospital, came by her death on the previous afternoon, under peculiar circumstances. An inquest was held on Friday, and the result is that William Atkins, in whose house the woman was at the time of her death, is committed to Dunedin on a charge of manslaughter., A resident of Blacks, in a letter to the Jjuns'an Times, states that since the inquest on Patrick Leary, the body has, at the request of friends of the deceased, been examined by, a medical man. who gives it as his decided opinion that the man did not commit suicide. It will be remembered that no money or other property ms found on Learv, a circumstance which adds force to the suspicion engendered by the nature of the medical opinion, that the deceased underwent foul play. At the Wairnate Steeplechase meeting, held on April 22, the following were the results: Maiden Steeplechase, of £3O : Miss Tatton, 1 ; Sun Slick —2. South Canterbury steeplechase, of £7O : Honest John—l ; Sir Tat.ton—2. Interprovincial Handicap Steeplechase, of £IOO : Honest John—l: Medora—2. —ln the South Canterbury Steeplechase, when Sir Tatton came to the stand, it was found that he had severely injured one of his forelegs by an over-reach ; and ie will not be again fit for racing for some twelve months to come. ( A correspondent of a Sydney newspaper gives the following as a new cure for the toothache Insert a piece of common washing soda in the hollow tooth, and the aching w,ll cease almost immediately. About a month since I suffering greatly for five days with this horrible complaint, and working 70 or 100 miles awav from a dentist, I tried washing soda. The result was : For a quarter of an hour after I inserted the soda the tooth seemed to ache worse, hut it gradually died away, and the nerve now seems to he quite dead. I can use the tooth on this side of my month as web as ever, without fear of again producing pain, which I have not hcen aide to do for the last two years. The Wellington Independent of April 26 says the Government do not regard the murder of Sullivan by tbe Maoris as a political offence'. The party of natives who shot him would have sho any party of Europeans indifferently. ,Thq only embarrassment which the murder is likely tn cause the Government is that the pursuit of the criminals may possibly lead to distinct issues. The Government have invited the assistance of all wel'-disposed natives in the cause of law and order. Several influential chiefs have volunteered their services to communicate with the Maori King, with the object of securing the capture of the murderers. In its report of the Easter sports at Eapier, the Hawke's Bay Herald says : “The wrestling was the best part of tbe day’s entertainment. After a few hard contested struggles between the Gornishmen had been got through, a tall athletic Maori entered the lists. His Christian name was Uori ; with reference to bis surname we are in ignorance. He evidently knew nothing of the science of the game, and apparently did not trouble himself at all about it. Whatever antagonist ventured to encounter him he seized hold of him without the least concern as to where or how his grip was taken, and by sheer streug.h laid him on his back, in general almost wi ibout a struggle. One man be had seized bold of by the thigh and was on the point, to all appearance, of throwing him over his shydJ'T, when the stewards interposed to stop Lbh. The crowd cheered MrHoriwith much flrthusiasm, and none joined in tbe applause more heartily than the men from whom he had won the laurels. They went up to him and shook bands with him, and did all they could to express to him the sincere and fervent esteem which they felt for so distinguished a master of the'r art. They wjH be aide to write home to ;,| eir fnends in England that there are, after ill, wrestlers in the world for whom the CorBisbmeu are not a match.” In reply to a deputation which waited ipmi him at Tuapeka, in connection with the proposed formation of a volunteer corps there, the Hon. Mr Bathgate is reported by tbe Times nave said “He looked upon the Volunteer wee of the Colony as perfectly useless for any Tactical purpose, and thought it was high time he constitution of the force was altered, sons o take a more practical shape. He would like ;° see die Volunteer force of the Colony so or[amsed that when volunteers were ordered to \ en flcertain drills, thov would be compelled to omply. What New Zealand wanted was a body ''men trained principally to the use of artillery, f n would be serviceable in repelling the attacks any privateer that might think "it worth its m dnm of war, to attack the large towns " the seaboard of the Colony. The only useful ™ 3 die service were the artillery and naval p ( e .l le °^ ler companies were nothing more ess than shooting clubs. A new Volunteer would be brought forward at the ensuing k;' n 8 i General Assembly, much more gent than the one at present in operation, uif 'Y 011 'J advise the deputation to wait until / ad an opportunity o seeing the provisions u • e Deposed new Act before they forwarded application. In order to make the Volun- **** die Colony useful, he thought that °f ead, company drilling two nights a ,]i‘j' al] ”ie companies of . ach Province wore id tr ,? r e;, d' year, in one central town. lv , ® re drilled in a body for about fourteenW u t0101, .y woultl then have a body of men ied ” I depend upon in the hour of