GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 236, 19 May 1874, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

.—* Low, of Arrowtown, won the Richardson Scholarship in connection with the High School. A Mrs Emilia Mitchell, of Charlestonwarns publicans and others, under legal, penally, not to supply her husband, Jame3 Mitchell, with any drink. Speculation, the winner of the Sydney Gold Cup. is said to have won for his owner £20,000 upon the race. The betiing was 20 to 1 against him. Tokomairiro has recognised the wide-spread importance of the Maerewhenua water question in a substantial manner, to the amount of £lB 113. 7d., contributed to the Defence Fund. The proposal to liberate Gardiner, the New South Wales bushranger, is causing great excrement in Sydney, and a public meeting was to be held to protest against it. [ GOOO men, with brooms and shovels,' were stationed on the 400 miles of railway between St. Petersburg and Moscow to keep the line clear of snow for the train containing the Czar, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and other notables. A witness, on being questioned at the Auckland Police Court a'few days ago by the Magistrate, replied—" I tumbled." " Did you fall ?" anxiously asked the Magistrate. "No," answered the witoesss, " I mean I was fly to what the cove meant." A fourth share in a now well-known claim in the Upper Waikaia district wa3 last winter sold for £5, and was reported speedily to have returned the purchaser over £GOO for bis share of the returns, about 80oz having been obtained in one week out of a loft paddock. The leading quartz mine in Otago is not a ' very rich one, when compared with our own mines. The load paper boasts that the dividends declared by the Cromwell Quartz Company during the year 1873 amounted to very close upon £BOOO. One of the Thames mines gave more than £BOO,OOO in dividends in one year, and recently one mine gave £9OOO in ot)e mo>ith, and is now ready to pay a second dividend.— Thames Advertiser. The Greymosdli Star says : —The news of the winner of the Sydney Gold Cup has put an end to tlie .anxiety of the holders of horses in (he Albion monster sweeps. The winner, Speculation, is held by Mr Simpson. Jan., who was until yesterday the driver of an express. He started yesterday for the Palmer, and previously to starting would have parted with his ticket for £7. The same ticket iodav entitles the holder to draw the sum of £583 6s Bd. In the 9th number of the Templar Standard, published in Auckland, the following curious advertisement appears:—"Notice. —I beg respectfully to inform the public that the schooner Ebenezer will (D. V.) be a regular trader between Auckland and Whaugaroa, and will be at the service of all who may bo kind enough to favour her with freight. I would also notify that, convinced as I am of tlie miseries arising from the use of intoxicating drinks, I cannot consciously carry any such liquors. She will essentially be a Good 'lomplar vcasol.—J. H. SiiLNSfEii, master."