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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 210, 7 March 1873, Page 5

The ' Cromwell Argin'' Nevis correspondent, speaking of our worthy Warden, says : —Many and loud are the complainti made at the manner in which the Warden, or his Clerk, is treating us. • Mrs. Partington says comparisons are odorous ; but, odious as they are, we cannot help regretting the days when Mr. Hobinson presided over us. In those clays, no matter how deep the snow lay on the mountains, or how fiercely the storm raged, Mr. Itobinson kept his appointments, and when he came his presence was welcomed by all. We were rather proud of our Warden ; his polished and gentlemanly deportment reminded us of the civilisation of the outer world ; and he, in a manner, linked us witn it. The urbanity and carefulness with which he did our mining business, and the evenhanded manner in. which he dealt out justice, won golden, opinions from all, and we were perfectly content to live under the regime of so good a lmgistrate.

Station runs especially —lias so increased in. value, and thereof are so anxious to purchase large blocks of land, to the exclusion of bona fide agricultural settlers, that the formation of a Land League for protective purposes has become essentially necessary.—' ' Wakatip Mail.' - ' -