The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, 11th JANUARY, 1867.

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

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, 11th JANUARY, 1867.

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In another portion of our columns will be found a letter from the Secretary of the Cromwell Memorial Committee, complaining of strictures contained in our Crom.ell corref p.in lent's letter, in respect to the genuin ness of the .signatures obtained at Cardrona; also, touching upon matters respecting the duties of Mr Warden Mratford, as well as charging our correspondent with holding views mimical to the success of the memorial. Our reading of ihe MNt brings us to no other conclusion than, that our correspondent take a deep interest in the well-fare of Cromwell, and, although his comments may not meet with the entire approval of the gettes-up of the memorial, they are nevertheless strictly impartial, and appear to take a broad view of the subject at issue, and we have no hesitation in saying, that the conclusions drawn arc no other hum what any sensible writer won hi arriveat after readingthe Cromwell memorial and its accompanying counter one from Cardrona. View - ed impartially, the memorial from Csirdrona is quite as worthy of belief as that of Cromwell ; the residents at the former place have every right to resist attempts on the part of individuals or parties to annex them to another district, and that they desire to remain us they are, is quite apparent from he fact of the Cromwell memorial for annexation, only receiving seven signatures at Cardrona. No one can blame the people nf Groin well for pushing to the utmost, the interests of their town and district; it is one of the natural instincts of humanity to do the best it can for itself, but when the forward ng of such interests partakes of an aggressive nature, a rebuff must be received as one of its concomitant evils, as " the greater the gain ; the greater is the risk in securing it,"and if theleadcrsof public opinion in the district of Cromwell set themselves to the task of despoiling their neigbors, they must'expect that condign punishment which necessarily befalls any man, when caught in the fact of appropriating to himself what belongs to another.! The promoters of the memorial w<ro without a doubt guilty of a great piece of indiscretion, in des patching a person to the Card»on» to procure there the signatures of Residents to a document in which ,they t.adiio hand in thegetting-up andtheresklentsjuslly shewed ibeii indignation against so much paternal solicitude for their welfare on the part of Cromwell, by the

unmistakable reminder they gave its representative that bis presence was undesirable. The only correct conclusion tob e arrived at. is, that if the people 0 f Cardrona desire annexation to Cromwell, any me* inorial on the subject, should emanate spontaneously i'rom themselves, or at least, the matter should be dealt with by the liead of the goldfields department, to whom we should imagine the Warden of any district should report his ability to manage it, and whether such district was too large or too small. If that the Cardrona is so situate, that for months tog 'tliei'. it cannot be approached by the Warden from Arrow Town, or that the convenience of the pubic is in anyway neglected ; necessity demands its being made a part and parcel of Cromwell, but if such is not the case, things bad better remain as they are ; and if it should so happen that the Warden at Cromwell finds time hanging heavily on his hands, the head of his department, upon representations being made, will no doubt see th t he is fully employed We have a thorough objection to all petitions or memorials, when the subject is a departmental one - they savor too inuchof emanating from the person who prominently figures therein, and we believe that this view of the case is taken by the Government; we must therefore hope that, in fuure, matters of social interest re quiring a memorial, that the friends of the District Warden, whoever he may be, will refrain from implicating him in the subject vVo- can assure our Cromwell friends that tho prosperity of their district is in tin ir own keeping, and that if its success depends upon the fact of their Warden being fully Hedged or not, or whether the area of his supervision is extended ; the central position occupied by the Town of Cromwell, and the vast natural resources oi the surrounding country, have been considerably over estimated.