CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 648, 18 September 1874, Page 2

CROMWELL.

(FROM OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT.) The summer is now advancing and yet tho Corporation appear to take no stops to promote the comfort of the inhabitants. They have called for tenders for Town scavenger, but nothing has been said about watering tho street. It appears to me that the Town scavenger could undertake the watering of Melmorc terrace, if tho Council provided the cart, as in all ordinary weather there would ho ample water in tho dam for street purposes, and the boon thereby conferred on tho inhabitants would be sufficient return for the outlay. Why not make tho scavenger a servant of tho Council ?

In every community evil and hrulal disposed individuals are to ho found, this place not being exempt from their presence. It is only a week since that a cat returned to its owner minus her tail, and several of the feline tribe have during the past few days been poisoned. It is a pity that tho delinquent cannot be discovered, as a month in the Clyde gaol would supply the excitement ho requires. Laying poison in a populated town and without due notice is prohibited, and for wanton cruelty to animals the law provides a punishment more severe than many know. Numerous inquiries are made as to when the Police will take possession of tkeir new quarters, which have been finished and ready to accept the “ terror to evil doers ”

for some time past. The usual red-tapeism and formalities will have to be gone through before I can answer the question, but on behalf of the unfortunates I say the sooner the old house is deserted and the new one opened the better as we area peaceable and law-loving, I meant,abiding-community, and assaults and abusive language are unknown.

Rejoice! Rejoice! so thought I last Court day, as happily there were only two cases, which did not occupy any very considerable time, and for a wonder, the good folk, whose business necessitates a constant attendance at the Court were allowed to enjoy a hot dinner if so disposed. which is a rariity for a bachelor on an unlucky Friday Often is the Warden the subject of a suppressed prayer for forgetting the cravings of theinner man, as an Englishman requires food for tbo body as well as the mind. In the adjourned case of Max Gall and Co. v. Cowan, the sum of 30s. was paid into Court, but judgment went for} 35s and costs. One witness, Henry Hotop did not seem to have a very good opinion of the residents of Cromwell, as he admitted that one bottle of mixture, for which ten shillings was charged, was excessive, and that five shillings was what he charged for tho same at Clyde, but be added, Chemists make bad debts—lt was not an extravagant charge for Cromwell, as Max Gall bad to pay a heavy rent and the carriage was more to Cromwell than Clyde.—lllustrious stranger ! “ wil befenden sil sich ” I should like to kuow if we are less honest than our neighbor, and if a customer is to pay the chemist’s rent ? Tho difference in the freight from Clyde to Cromwell on a solitary bottle must be something extortionate and those naughty carriers must impose upon their customers’ generous nature. The magistrate apparently heard enough of pulvis mixtures, pilluho, &e., for if he didn’t I must say I did ; one thing’however is certain that Doctors and Chemists like Lawyers don’t always agree, as Dr Corse pronounced the disputed charges excessive in tho extreme. The Soiree and Concert to celebrate the opening of the Cromwell Lodge of Good Templars will take place this evening at Kidd’s concert-hall. The committee have hj id great difficulty in procuring a musician, and it is a matter of regret that a pianist cannot be secured either at Clyde or Cromwell. The tea commences at half past six o’clock, and I am informed tiiat the tickets are nearly all disposed of. For some time past equestrians have incurred considerable risk owing to the blasting operations at present carried on at the Clyde side of tire Cromwell bridge. The building stone is obtained there, and as is well known the public road runs directly along tlie side i f a steep hill about a quarter of the way, from the top of which the blasting is done. Any person riding at a pace other than a walk is liable to sustain serious injury from two causes, namely, a piece of the rock might strike him, or the horse shy, and as the road in that part is very narrow he would have a poor chance of escaping a bath in thoClutha. Whenever scan the working hands endeavor to warn tho traveller, but it is to him next to an impossibility to hear, provided that he is going at a faster pace than a walk. Coming from Clyde he cannot be seen owing to tho abutting rocks until he is in danger, and it was only a few days since a gentleman narrowly escaped being struck by tho debris, portions of which reach the road, and in some instances tho river. All this could be easily remedied by hoisting a red flag, just before the shot is fired. The same course is pursued everywhere else whore blasting on or near a Government road is carried on, and Cromwell should be no exception. Of late there has been enough mirtality without increasing it through want of precaution.