MEMORIAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 290, 2 June 1875, Page 6

MEMORIAL.

Following is copy of a petition to the Government which has been circulated throughout the district, and has appended to it nearly 300 signatures, representing every section of the community. The grounds of petition are so just and incontrovertible—although withal not nearly so highly put as the real surroundings warrant—that there is little room to doubt the prayer receiving due consideration :

To His Honor the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Otago. The memorial of the undersigned residents in Cromwe'l humbly sheweth : ■- That the position of Cromwell as regards a very large area of pastoral and mining country is central, and it is therefore entitled to a proper share of consideration in dealing with the expenditure of public moneys. That the quantity of gold produced from the district is far in excess of that. from any other goldfiJld, which fact is not onW evidence of the settlement of a population, but it is indicative of the likelihood of a further increase.

That in the establishment of permanent Government buildings on the';Goldfields, the utmost impartiality and forethought should be exercised.

That Cromwell presents favorable evidence of present prosperity and of future importance, and is in those respects unequalled by any other Goldfiells town. That the time ha? arrived at which the establishment 'of a District Court, having criminal jurisdiction, is become a necessity, and, as a conseqienee, the erection also of a district gaol. The-e matters, together with the necessity of a resident Warden being located in Cromwell, have already be-m urs;ed by the Town Council. Th it it is desirable, in view of the Government proceeding with the erection of a Gaol, that the claims of Cromwdl as the town to be selected should be recognised. Your memorialists would therefore respectfully ask for an assurance that their representations will receive favorable consideration, and they, as in duty bouud, will ever pray, &c.