CROMWELL HOSPITAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 668, 5 February 1875, Page 2

CROMWELL HOSPITAL.

—o — A meeting of the Cromwell Hospital took; place last week at whrh there were present. Messrs Starkey; Marsh, Jolly, Scott, Gudgeon, Taylor, C. Johnson, and Dawkins, The contractor informed the Committee that the building would bo finished in six weeks at the outside. It was resolved that the list of subscribers should be publish? I in the Cromwell Argu°, and that Mr Lo-

gan’s list should be advertised in a Dunedin paper. Messrs Snook and Wakefield were elected auditors at a salary of one guinea each. A suh-comniittce consisting of Messrs Taylor, Johnson, Marsh and Jolly we T c appointed to ascertain the furniture, &0., that would be required and to report to the next Committee meeting. The Secretary was instructed to communicate with the Dunstan, Tuapeka , and Hoghurn Hospital Committees with a view to secure copy of Rules.

It was propose !hy Mr Taylor seconded by Mr Marsh and carried —That a meeting of tho subscribers be held in a fortnight for the election of a permanent managing Committee, bub that the ]ire>cnt Committee hold office till tho completion oi tho building. The Secretary was directed to write to Mr MTvellar respecting the gr-nt of land for Hospital purposes. A few accounts were passed for payment, when the proceedings were brought to a close by tho usual vote of thanks to tho chair.

Tho proprietor of a new patent medicine advertises for " active young men to undertake its sale,," and adds that “ it is certain to prove profitable to the undertakers.”

Wcnml<Tstand taat the spread of Prussian military principles in tho army is so decided that tho guard which nightly goes to defend tho Bank of England alw ays mnrehts to the turn of tho “ Watch on tho Khino.”

A husband in Maryland opened a letter addressed to his wife to s»o if her uncle in England had loft her a fortune. She happened to surprise him in tlio act, with a clothes stick in her hand, and now she tells his friend that the mark over his left eye is whore ho was vaccinated. —American paper.