QUEENSTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 287, 12 May 1875, Page 6

QUEENSTOWN.

'(FftOM OUR OWN eORBTJSPONBENT.'J

May 1, 1875.

Since my last, winter has set in; the mountains are covered with snow, and a complete change of weather has come upon, us. Fires are becoming the rate. , I was in hopes that my peit’would never; be called upon to write the Jackson; Barry” again. But, alas T like many other) hopes and fears, it was all vanity. I could! Up more write anything of Queenstown at* present without his name figuring in it than; a wedding could be held without the bride. He has thoroughly succeeded in bringing all* the scum in the town .to the surface, and all that large class that in every community sympathise with cheek and bounce can be seen and heard now without much searching. Mr Jackson Barry, in his virtuous indignation at being locked up, has nearly, set the town on fire. As T have informed you, Mrs Powell Was exonerated from all blame. The case fell completely to the ground. It showed also that Mr Manders was largely mixed up in the affair, Mr Barry finding the balls, and "Mr Manders firing them through the press. It was hoped that tho prosecution of Mrs Powell had been allowed by Barry to fall through, but on being summoned on Monday, Mr Powell took the first opportunity 1 of horsewhipping Mr Manders. At the first trial he was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment, and most people thought the sentence very light considering the aggravated nature of the assault. But. at the second trial, to-day, so much-was shown, even by the evidence for the prosecution, tending to rouse anyone’s temper who had any, that it caused a complete revulsion of feeling on the part of right-minded persons, fend the Bench, composed of Messrs Beetham, Malaghan, and Robertson, sentenced to a £lO tine only. Mr Manders got a severe reprimand from the Bench for appearing before them in what they thought an unfit -state ; and Mr Finn, solicitor, was also called to order for making some rather heated remarks to the Bench.—lt is to be hoped we have seen the last of these rows.

The Good Templars have completed their arrangements for holding their first anniver sary. It is to be celebrated by a grand concert and temperance speeches.