CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 460, 10 February 1871, Page 3

C ROMWELL.

(from our own corbksposdext ) The excitement caused by the election of a- member of the House of Representatives for the Bnnstan discul mi hated on Tuesday last (polling day), at about five minutes to four o’clock. At that time there was a perfect rush to the poll. Many electors had apparently liaen afraid to come forward and recom their votes until a number had collected, and they all came with a ’rush which' nearly swsmped the officers taking, the poll. However, all got their votes recorded somehow, after doing which they congregated outside the booth anxiously awaiting the result. When the numbers polled for each candidate were made known the excitement lulled, but speculation as to the I’esult at other place very quickly brought it up to its original intensity, and it was not allayed until the following morning, when the return from all the booths were made public. - ~ .Regarding the election / for the Superintendency, the feelmgWSrf-jjngly in favor ot MacaidUfer, arid to say the votes prajjsd by his opponent will be very few.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, last Tuesday, a Mrs. Wdson, for whom Mr. Bmugh appeared, was fined 501. and costs. In the Warden’s Court; Mr. Sraythies, on behalf of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, obtained an injunction against Messrs. Maclean and part (of Shep-i herd’s Creek celebrity), enjoining them to desist from preventing the Water from flowing down Shepherd’s Gully. It appeared that Maclean and party had constructed a dam across tbegully to Ihe great damage of plaintiffs, and an action will be brought to recover ICO/ compensation for same. Thu affairs f at the-Catrick Range are in the sain J stiitp * rdplorted in my last issao, ■ ,

THE LAKES.

(PItOM ODK OWN CORRESPONDENT.) . Queenstown, Feb. 7.

His Honor the Superintendent paid us a visit ilast week. His visit wha imt'an-official one this'time. He came as a Supplicant for our suffrages. So < fill- as M l’. - Mncandrew’s concerned, they are nothing to boast about, as he rightly observed, hit) address .had been everywhere published, and jt was oniy a waste of time to.inakv Upig speeches, and bdfli here and. at Arr.owtown, Mr MhcaudreW'cohfihed himse-f to a brief resume offli'e leading political questions of the ,«hiv. It is almost- un necessary to say that he was well received, and votes that he was a fit and proper person to fill the office of Superintendent were everywhere unanimous!/ carried. I fancy that Mr. Reid’s’chances at the Lakes are very few, Mr • Mucandrew being the universal firvdrltro while his go-ahead principles are best suited to a mining community. ■Tile"champion of the Taieri farmers' will not meet with much favor in the district. Ido not wish it to ho understood that people here swallow all that'“ Mr. Macandrew says We are not quite so visionary or gullible as all that. There may lie or there may not lie a railroad to the Lakes via Tuapelfa and 'the Dunstan, and another, via Invercargill"and Winton, „hut if oneline is completed during the picsent centqi-y. we shall bo delighted. I fancy tlmt.if the whole population weie to take a .trip to Dunedin every Saturday and rajmriv on the following Monday that itywotvkl scarcely pay for a railroad. As to our becoming exporters and sending our. produce To the seaboard, there will he nothing hut wool and gold, and we have no desire’to be taxed on account of th*> Ranks and .quatiers ;we must make the latter pay as dearly as possible for the carriage of their wool to a seaport as an equivalent for the export duty upon gold, it is only fair, that such hould be the case. It is a very nice thing however to talk about railways, while none will feel disappointed if the lines to the Wakatip will continue to he myths, beciiu.se no sane man believes that a railway will ever he constructed during his present sublunary existence. lam told that the population at Martin’s Bay consider a railroad thither as a good joke, and would prefer the completion of the track from Lake Wakatip. The people at Martin’s Bay are as had off as the citizens of Paris, meat is equally ns scarce an article of food as with them, while occasionally, that i«, during the ifttervalsjof a steamer—there would bo positive starvation.; were not fish easily to be caught, and Kaw Kaws and wild pigeons shot with little .difficulty, This could all he obviated by the completion of the road to Lake Wakatipit is cruel to tel I these people if they will lo only patient they shall have a railroad This reminds me of a certain royal personage, who, when informed that the poor could not obtain bread, replied, “ then Ay by don’t, they ear. pastry 7’M.Macandrew would doubtless makefile country go ahead if he could, and his-desire to •do sqnvething will win for him the support of ’(lie goldfields in this part of the province. On Friday evening last the friends j of Mr. C. E. Haughton, M.H.R., entertained him at a at the Royal Oak Hotel,; Arrowtown. His Honor the Superintendent was present ; the spread wasjji.grdat success, and does great ciedit to Mr.. James Gan’oway, the worthy host of the establishment On Saturday Mr. Haughton left on his mission as a commissioner to take evidence upon the water supply scheme. Besides this duty, Mr. Haughton will he able to do a little electioneering at the expense of the country, fine hundred pounds, so his Honor says, is to be expended upon this commission.

Harvesting operations , have now become pretty general all over the district ; the weather has been exceed ingly favorable until yesterday, when it rained pretty . well all day. The change even at this time was acceptable as it is almost seven months since we hive had a really good down pour of wet.