DUNSTAN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 295, 25 September 1873, Page 5

DUNSTAN.

' .(From ow own Correspondent:} ' . ' Assuming that the '' Bruce Herald " & correct in stating thai three-fiiths of 1 the I ltuiatics'fpom-tiie goWßeld'ain the Dunedin Asylum are contributed by this district, I think the next batch that will be sup-plied-will be the newpaper editors and correspondents, who,' one and all, are apparently considerably affected with the mania -^yen " your own "• may not be altogether excepted.. It is said of the •Otago members that they are- in, the habitof indulging in a free fight every year up in thp Assembly v the same ruje , by our local jpurnah?, w,hich,also iudulgb' in their periodical paper fights, over 'the* vexing question who is to be the greatest. - The "Argus" botaly made the--'attack-by" stating that the £600 voted- fpr the, courthouse at Clyde was injudicious, and that the courthouse, they had might serve for all the gold: - they- were ..getting. , Tt complained of cases being bought to Clyde which- might be. heard* at Cromwell and Alexandra, and thai the Government was buildihg- up' a' purely official "to iVn.It' further pointed- <sut the flourishing condition of • the Cromwell district; -and .ijhe, decay of jjhe. oth,er ; but.did; np^be-

grudge them the .courthouse, if it would be a benefit to the few miners who were | compelled to do business there, provided it /the " Argus '*)!• he4rs no ' more •of i Clyaeas ifre grand metrapoHnoi' :She>,cen-' traJ'goldfieldsi Tlw&the V,Tir»ep " ; correspondent, " One of the Doomed, 7 ., an.d, hia dog " Toby " taking up ; the foils, jsays the city of the ' Ironside's ' doh'i get the gold it blows about', but that H }'s 'gathered" in from the hills and gullies, ev&n from the back of Mount Pisa. This week- "■ Antv-Humbug " -and the Tinle« editor have-.takeji the .field. . The, .former on narrow i>. wide streets, arid the latter, doe^s r not believe j in Parliamentary experience for newspaper proprietors, and says that nobody sees ' the "importance of Cromwell 'but -its 1 own' inhabitants; and that dth6r places will be making themselves towns, and will soon disowjt Croni-,* welL as their present head.. : He. further,, affirms that Clyde is the proper centre qij a large district, and the, Groverhnient wisely regards it as such ; when one part prospers it has a beneficial 'effect on the whole, and that this district will prosper' yet, ' The " Dunstan Times" wants- to 1 hear no more boasting of gold getting or large escorts, be it from where it may. By what you have now before you, it will be seen there is not much fear of the district not keeping its name in supplying the Asylum, arid you will doutless think I am quite as far gone as any of them for noticing them ; b,ut there is another case in a still ' more advanced stage than the otheiSj 1 refer to your correspondent " Yeritas and Fair Play." It is n.o£ neqcessary for me to remark on, his epistle to show signs in it of imbecility, fox it is breathed throughout.it, and the coriclud- ! ing portion puts on the' cap-stone, j In a former ' portion I refer t6 the I Otagb free 'fight's in the Assembly.' '• I see the Lords and Commons are to* have a set to, and our Lawrence, • Aloxandra, -Dunstan andCrom\yell-rail way will be smothered in-'its-. birth, to say nothing of the bridge at Clyde, The Goldfield 3 Bill has come to grief, " and the wait of the 'Smiler is heard in the land.'* Speaking locally there is little of importance 1 .- We have had plenty of 1 rainy weather, and the Dunedin coach eight days behind its time— rather a "bad time for Cromwell to agitate for a two day's service. Plenty of water, for. sluicers. The Salamander dredge has I!t agajn left her moormgs under the charge, of Andrew Dalzie), . , ihe pneumatic' is fitting itip. No word. 6f the Alexandra leviathan';lmi; they had their races to-day,' and managed to 'keep' all the money themselves. *i\Vho had a better right ? Our races' ar,e , next week, and, in,! the .evening the Cromwell Amateur Dramatic Company are to pcr r form in the Town hall for the benefit of hhfi, liospifcal. . '