CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 670, 19 February 1875, Page 2

CROMWELL.

(from our own CORRESPONDENT.)

It is a matter of regret that aspirants for civic honors, and those who court the privilege of signing the letters “ Cr.” before their names, loose sight of the fact that they are expected to do something more than that which consists in empty show and ostentatious display. Tho surest road to fame consists more in actions than words, and creates those impressions which secure alasting name and respect: It is wellknown that 1 have had repeatedly to call attention to the water supply, and, in tho face of the very strong remarks already published tho Cromwell Corporation continue to practically ignore the existence of of the ratepayers and householders. Ou Fr’day last the town supply was, without notice, cut off, and only three men put on to take up nearly al! the iron pipes. On the following Saturday the workmen assured me that the water would be turned on that evening, and in consequence thereof numerous parties did not take tho trouble to cart water from the dams ; but, as usual, no water came, and on the Sunday morning people who would have preferred attending to their devotional exercises were necessitated to hire a cart and horse and convey the water to their premises. The least the Corporation could have done would have been, in the first place, to have put on eight or ten men, or if their impecunious state would not allow of this extensive expenditure, timely notice should have been given, and the citizens could then have taken steps to secure themselves. The banks of the Clutha anil Kawarau are too steep to induce parties to follow the “Jack and Jill” style, or to make themselves “ hewers of wood and drawers of water.” It is time enough to resort to this extremity when absolute necessity demands. but paying rates and taxes is hardly consistent with the principles of colonisation unless some benefit accrues, in other words to pay for the luxury and never receive it is scarcely giving a quid pro quo. I would suggest that some of the Samsons, or Herculean gentlemen belonging to the Council obtain a milkman’s yoke and immortalise themselves by bringing the water or compensate the nou-Counoillors for the loss of shoe leather and labor entailed by their carrying it.