CROMWELL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 51, 30 January 1869, Page 3

CROMWELL.

19 > 1869. ■j^H^^^^^^^^^^^^^B^re you at

and the interest t>f the district is daily withering thronghwant of being nowririied. This is a goldfield as important as yours, and yet we havfc not a single yard of commonage wheraon to run our cattle.. Every animal is taxed to the., sum of LI per annum by the squatters, and yet the miserable*ininded cattleowners wll not kick against it, and demand from the Government some little justice to themselves and others^ which would raise stock if commonage wero granted. In the Tuapeka district and the Lake district valuable commonages are enjoyed, and no doubt much profit is derived from them ; but here we are entirely at the mercy of the scatter, and all through the imbecility of the men who ought to stand up for their rights. It may be that it is difficult to draw anything out of the Treasury to compensate the squatter for a commonage, as the men in authority are not the "people's Ministry;" but, on the contrary, they will not do a single act calculated to induce men to settle down permanently in the province. The Gensral Government is offering a premium for the best essay on the best mode of keeping people in the colony. There is not an idiot in the country but has sufficient brains to perceive at once that throwing good land into the market is the only mode by which men may be induced to make New Zealand their lasting home. Our scribe, Mr. Henry John Cope, has sold his interest in the "Dunstan Times" to Mr. George Fache, his partner, and we look forward with a strong hope that the journal will in future be a good one. Unless some valuable extracts are selected to relieve the commonplace caste of the local intelligence generally, the reading matter must be, on the whole, tiresome to a constant reader of any country journal. Mr. Fache is possessed of a cultivated taste, and with some practice he will, no doubt, write articles of an intelligent <jlass, and the paper will be perused with considerable interest. . On Thursday evening last a most severe shock of earthquake was felt throughout the district, it was publishing night at the " Dunsta*. Times " office, and a large quantity of the type which had been set , up was upset, wi|ch fact caused the com- ; posltors to the earth and all its quakings. Glasses tumbled from shelves in countless number's, and in many houses serious alarm was f c*, especially by the timorous fair gex.