THE CROMWELL MEMORIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 246, 11 January 1867, Page 2

THE CROMWELL MEMORIAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " DU.VSTAN TIMES''.

c in, —The duty devolves upon me of forwarding to you for publication, a copy of a Resolution passed at a public meeting, held in the > choolro(>m, Cromwell, on -aturday eveninp, sth January. ' The, Vavor • rW J. Barrv, presided, the re-

solution, is in respect, to certain slive-

meijts, in your ronrwell ( orrespondent's hfter published in the " Dunstau Times", 2Jst I ec mber, 18fi6. In doing so' I Leg to state, as shortly as possible, the reasons, which led to such a Resolution being passed. In the opinion of the meeting, the whole of the fourth paragraph,

is written, with the intention of doing as much harm to the cause, for which the memorial was get up as possible, your correspondent, in his anxiety to do so, •giving undue importance to certain statements, whilst he suppressed, or was Ignorant of others. Your correspondent, in saying that the evis might he annex ed to the Cromwell district, with verv good grace, as the Warden at Cromwell, could very easily extend his peregrinations there at stated periods ; either does no 1 , know, or chooses +o ignore the fact, that the ** ar len o«" Cromwell, dees al-r»-,d" fix *-, o nd his peregrinations to the Nevis. Your correspondent asserts that *rrow + own is distant from fardrona . e ;„ n +, e en mdes. According to the _ ar-d-0n.,. nonnter netpion, it is twenty miles, •awl ''+. ; s wel 1 known, that the road thither ■* almost impassable for weeks, if not min+hs in wintertime C irdrona to M--row>nwn. is distant eighteen miles, while it is move than fift-v miles f om Cardrona to romwell ;in the same fashion, it conVI verv csilv he shewn that, Clyde wis r! ; «tfint from Hunedin two hundred nnrl mi'es (via M amaru). Cromwell is d : s*-ant. from '"ardrma, hy one road thirty sevpn nr thVv ei<rht miles, by another, and bv another, barely twentv. Thp dt-Tv rmd. between Cardrona, and Cromwell, we will sav,'is forty miles, jf sn . b°t W n P .n fardrona, and rrow-town, it would be seventy miles. *s to signatures, beinT obtained by misrepresentations, the drifts of the memorial are still in evi«+n"pp, nppn to public inspection, aid IWe +o'be compared, wi'h the Copy pR i-i+ for nrospnta'-ion. to the Government. Is it li ply that a Committee, composed o f +he Mavor, Pounpi'lors, and others, in the townsVn would lend their -names to d'-cont'on'! There were no shearers«€n WiHie's Station, at the time, the memorii wis sent to the Cardrona. As to tae vnln.fi of p"Ht!o"s, and the readiness, with which people attach the'r signatures, it has boon nubliclv bv the canvassers for the memorial' that the miners,"and others, stopped their work, either to rpad he memorial for themselves, or to hea'' :+ rend :in the nvnoritv of cases, to r««d >'*■. Tn conchisio-n, T beg to say, that tV nrnmr-i] wos the result, not of one, 'W of twopubl'c meetings, called toge f her "hv the M avor of Romwell. ' nreV. in a -ph<v>. where a paper is "n'y published •weekly, that, is giving sufficient publicity to su''h n mept'pir I have the honor to be,

Your obedient c errant, I»UNCA* LLT.n, f'oi. c ec, to Memorial ommittee. Cromwell, Sh January, 1806.

Resolution, passed at a public meetinsr. in Cromwell, oth January, 1867. The Mnvor Mr W J. Barry in the '"hair "That this meeting .expresses "in a most ■3cclrleiT~in-\TiT.er, its indignation, at the -unfounded statements, published in the issue of the" unstan imes"ofthe 21st December last, in its Cromwell Ccrrespon•dent's letter".