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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 269, 5 January 1875, Page 5

We have received a letter bearing the signature of " Equity." which will have consideration before next issue. We had made arrangements for the receipt of a report of thj Alexandra race meeting, which was held on New Year's P>ay ; hut, thanks to the new mail arrangements, nothing has come to hand. The only news we can give in regard to the races is that Ka'bleen was successful in carryins off the two principal events. The only real opnonents she had in the handicaps as published were Rranette and Mountain Hare, hut. the f rmer wis precluded from runnina hy her lameness. while the latter was disqualified on acoun'. of being entered at a wrong age. For the absence of. nuv.ur'her information, therefore, o--,t rev.birs,uvvy..rh.;i!-k Ihe postal authorities who have' institnt'eT.what we mav most certainly call the present "postal mil-

Wo hear that it is'the intention of the proprietors—Meijsrs Williams and Edwards---of the Youpg Australian quartz claim, on the Carrick, to put their property into scrip, and offer it to the acceptation of phe public. Probably the prospectus will'be laid before our readers shortly. ■.."■"• Yesterday, the children attending the Catholic School in Cromwell, under the tutelage of Miss Brownlee, were treated to a picnic. The place chosen for the affair was the Fivemile Creek, between Cromwell and Mr Loughnan's station. Thither the children were conveyed in vehicles during the forenoon, and a considerable number of adults accompanied them, as also did the Revs. Father Mackay and Father Moore, under whose dictation and superintendence the picnic was originated and carried out. Several hours were spent very pleasantly in games and all manner of fun and diversion, the youngsters enjoying themselves most thoroughly. Everything passer! off gleefully and agreeably, and nothing whatever—if a dusty ride home be excepted—occurred to mar the dav's sport. The adults, also, found no slight enjoyment in the outing, and in looking on at the youngstei s' games and fun. Mr and Mrs Arthur St. Yincent gave entertainments in Kidd's Hall on the race nights to crowded houses, and on Thursday evening to a fair audience. The two performers, with very slight aid, succeed in keeping their audiences highly amused for the evening, and the applause they so frequently received showed that their efforts were fully appreciated. The principal feature in the entertainment are the duets, and the performers certainly sustained the good name they have made for themselves in this line. Thev announce a single appearance here again on Friday evening next, when doubtless a good house will greet them, especially as there is a reduction in prices. Bannockhurn is also to be favoured with a visit on Saturday night. Most of our readers will already have heard of the death bv accident of the wdll-known and greatly respected carrier,—Mr Adam M'l end. The only particulars we have been able to gather of the occurrence are as follows :—Mr MT.eod lef" his brother's hotel at Bengerburn last Wednesday evening for Dunediri, travelling in a lowseated sulky. By a heavy jolt, he was thrown backwards out of the vehicle, landing- on the bac'< of his neck, and receiving severe injuries to his spine. His brother, as it happened, was travelling next morning to Tuapeka, and found poor Adam a few miles on the road, lying in an insensible condition. He arranged to have the sufferer sent to the Tuapeka Hospital, and it was a few hours after his arrival there that he breathed h's last. The news of Mr M'Leod's death was received throughout this district with profound regret. The members of the Church of England congregation are requested to meet on Monday evening next. Two services are now held each Sunday, one in the morning and the other in the evening,—Mr it. A. Snook officiating as lay reader. Next Sunday afternoon, a Fnndayschod will be started in connection with the church. Seats are now ready for letting. ; A match for a side at Cornish | wrestling has been arranged between Mesirs B. j Hoare and T. Trevathan. t" come off in Cromwell on Saturday, February G. We have heard I it suggested that it would be well if the public i were to supplement the stakes by another £lO, and thus nv-'ke an interesting match of it. CerI tainly an affair of £2O a side would draw together a good number of people I We have not heard any particulars of the LowVmrn or Bendigo sports on New Year's . Day. Those at Bendigo, we believe, were postponed until Saturday. " The New Year in and the Old Year out" was celebrated in the usual manner in Cromwell. Youngsters, and " children of larger growth" too, organised a kerosene-tin band, and paraded the streets, arousing the inhabitants i i indignation and nightclothes f'*om their virtuous couches for the purpose of wishing them the compliments of the season. At one of t'*e principal hotels, where the marauders experienced some delay in finding an answer to their , knockings, they kicked in one of the panels of r the door. Very possibly the affair will be heard of in the Police Court. i An old resident of the district, Francis ? j Wellings by name, but far hetter known by the ! patronymic of " Jonathan," who suffers from a j chronic disease, and who has been for some time ' an inmate of the Dunstan Hospital, has been advised to proceed to Melbourne for the purpose s "f finding a cure. With the view of enabling . him to do so, some of his friends took a snbscripi tion-list in hand. Me. srs Preshaw and Goninan, during an hour or so on Saturday afternoon, ' raise la sum of £2O in the town, and at Bani nockbnrn Messrs Menzies and Cavnnagh sne :, ceedel in getting a further amount of £lO. This speaks well for the liberality of the subscribers. A survev expedition to the Haast, undei ? the leadership of Mr David Hutcheson, p,ts e< , through Cromwell the other day, on their waj to the Wanaka. They propose clearing a wid( track, and making the route (via Pyke's track 5 traversable for horses throughout, so as to con nect the three Provinces, and the East an< West Coasts, by a main artery of communica tion. -' Mr T. B. Gillies has accepted, the vacan " judgeship, and resigns his seat for Auckiant West. Sir George Grey comes forward as i 3 candidate. The West Taieri Good Templars wen ' too fuch for the publicans. They not onb ?i bought up the booth at the Agricultural Shov e at Outran), hut were enabled to prevent the sal " of strong drink on the ground contiguous to th • show-yards. i A great libel case is to come on at tin • [ next session of the Supreme Court. The plain - tiff is a member of the Provincial Government ■> i and the defendant a well-known journalist in , •I town not forty miles from Dune-din Amon 1J the dramatis personal will be several past an v present membeis of the Executive, the Hon. th • Speaker, Provincial Auditory and a hosto f othc ■ ' great taon.

A woman named More'cbfulie,'\vifs of n % storekeeper in Walker-street, ' BuneHln, at- f tempted to commit suicide on the 28th ult.;'bethe hours of 8 and 9in the evening. Her „ hnsbandwent into the house and found a rope >g hanging from the. lintel of the door, his wife's s head in the noose, and her feet above ihe ground. a He gave her into custody. She was committed for trial by the Resident Magistrate.. , Mr Samuel Wilson, the well-known '* Wimmera squatter, has made the munificent ' gift of £30,01)0, for budding a hall at the Mel- ) bourne University. ' Late cablegrams say that the transit of t Venus was observed very successfully in Egypt, 1 India, Russia, and Japan. t The Victorian Bench remanded Sullivan r to New Zealand, to be sent on the first oppor- r tunity. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co. refused to give him a passage in one of "j their boats; e