Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell: Tuesday, May 19, 1874.

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

Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell: Tuesday, May 19, 1874.

I Members of the .local Miners' Association are requested to meet on .'.Saturday .evening next; ' : " Monday, Jun e; Ist, has, we believe, been fixed as the day on which the Kperihig- of MrMjGormick's new bridge at Nevis Ferry will take place. The prospectus of the new Colonial Bank of New-Zealand will be noticed in our advertising columns. Mr H. Ardnt is the local agent. „-, l.^ The statement going the rounds that Mr V. Pyke was to assume the positipu of sub-editor of the Guardian has been contradicted. He is to be assistant editor of that paper, and sole editor of the Mercury. A crushing from the Young Australian claim, concluded on Saturday week, yielded the very satisfactory return of nearly 26 dwts. to the ton. , 138 tons of stone were, crushed, and the result was'.-1814 ozs. of retorted gold. The late discovery of the reef in the Star 6f" the East tunnel has caußed an appreciable advance in the price of scrip in that,company., Transactions, we nave taken place during the past week' at £8 55., and yesterday a holder demanded £lO per, Bcrip for his interest., Mr Daniel cracked a most unintentional joke ; at the meeting of the Provincial Council yesterday. The question of sending a doctor to Stewart's Island to vaccinate the children there, wag under discussion when, ga.id Mr Daniel—" I understand that any old woman can vaccinate, and if this is the case, why does not the Resident Magistrate do it Times. . The Athenaeum Oomraittee held their monthly meeting on Tuesday last, thel2th inst. The principal business was the consideration of a letter from Mr Grant; asking for a' progress payment of £2lO ;' an-1 this was grunted,, subject to the certificate of the architect. The catalogue of new hooks selected by the sub-com-mittee was ordered to be forwarded to Mr D. MacKellar, who would be requested to see them despatched from Dunedm- It was also resolved to write to the same gentleman ikre the Lower Flat«»dowme'.ii The other business was of no particular, moment.,. In relation to Mr De LatourV. motion for a reduction of the gold e::port duty by 6d^' per ounce, the Guardian says :—The motion was affirmed on the voices. The Noes called (or a division, but were- a?r;vid to show their colours, and when pressed J3u!Fe>ed the vote to pass without dividing. It is to be hoped that every member in favour of the reduction, who at a 1! values the opinion of bis constituents, wi'l. be present and record his vote-when Mr De Lautour's motion, for placing a.sum on the Supplementary Estimates to refund 6d. per ounce to exporters of gold the produce of Otago and Southland, comes up for discussion. Our readers may remember that Dr Thos. William Quelch Honey will was, at the last criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, convicted of manslaughter at Roxburgh, and Sentenced to six months' imprisonment without hard labour. The accused bad attended Mrs Agues Smith, who died,in child-birth, and!the jury found that the medical treatment had been the cause of her death, and convicted him of the offence stated; -Accused prior to being sentenced Stated that "certain medical evidence favourable to bim should have been called, but that it had not been. Subsequently, the counsel who defended him, Mr Mouat, forwarded a petition to His Excellency the Governor through His Honor Mr Justice Chapman, accompanied by statements from Drs Hulroe, Hockea, and Eakewell, controverting the evidence given by medical experts at the prosecution. The petition was forwarded through his Honor Mr Justice Chapman, in accordance with the Gaol regulations., which require that a prisoner's petition for pardon be forwarded through the Judge who sentenced him, or the Justice who convicts. Yesterday, an order was received from His Excellency by Mr Caldwell that the prisoner be discharged, and Dr Honeywill was forthwith discharged from custody.— Daily Times. • .