BANNOCKBURN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 194, 29 July 1873, Page 6

BANNOCKBURN.

—. —_*. ——. (from our own correspondent.) July 26, 1873. Our representative, Mr MacKellar, seems to be making himself heard in the Provincial Council, on several matters of local requirement. Amongst other things, I see he has presented our petition for commonage, and the matter has been referred to the favourable consideration of the Government. How • long it will rest there, unless the memory of I the Government be rubbed up, it is hnpos- j sible to say. One tiling is certain-—the late ■ Government tried all they could to shirk the matter ; and as the principal members of it are in the present Executive, there is reason to believe they will want looking after. It is to be hoped the promoters of the petition will follow the matter up now that they have gone so far. I think we have every reason to be satisfied at last with the district's representative in the Provincial Council. With an energetic member such as Mr MacKellar is proving himself to be, and the assistance of the j member for the Dunstan, whose interests are to a great extent identical with our?, the 1 wants of this district stand a fair chance of receiving due attention. The post-office at Mr Halliday's Shepherd's Creek Hotel has, T am informed, bem abolished, and the one at Quartzville \rill now do duty for the whole of the district. The change will cause little or no ioeomenience. A few may have to walk half a mile further or so, but that is all. I notice that Mr Oliver. M.P.O. for Mount Ida, has forwarded to the Miners' Association at that place a guinea, with a request to become a member of the Association,—an example that might be followed iere by our storekeepers, bankers, &c. Their, names would not only be an ornament co the books, but their subscriptions would, I have no doubt, prove exceedingly acceptable. Mr Stafford is reported t> be seriously indisposed.