QUEENSTOWN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 6, 15 December 1869, Page 5

QUEENSTOWN.

(From our own Correspondent.) -> J December 10. 1830. I am afraid you will not bo able to consider my first epistle either “ instructive or entertaining” to any very great extent, as there is rather a dearth of news here at present, and it is to be regretted that your correspondent has not a sufficiently vivid imagination to draw upon, so that he could nuke news for the occasion. However, I will, Micawber-liko, wait patiently ' for | “something to turn up,” of which you' shall regularly be informed. ... News was received in town last nightc, that a Oain.imm, known by rile cognomen j of “ The Doctor,” had been drowned in 1 the Bucklerbnrn, head of the Lake; but no particulars as to how the accident happened have yet come to hand. As an inquiry into the circumstances will probably take place, I may be able to give more particulars in ray next. The sixth anniversary of Court Pride of the Lake, A.0.F., was celebrated on the j evening of Tuesday last by a ball and supper in the Masonic Hotel, Queenstown. There was a very fair attendance, and the “ light fantastic” was enjoyed till an early hour in the morning—everyone being highly pleased with the night’s proceedings. I was glad to notice by the last number of the Argm that there is a likelihood of a cricket club being established in Cromwell ; and I trust it will succeed. I would advise the members to give our “ knights of the willow” a challenge, as they badly want something to rouse their energies. They have all the necessary materials, and a good ground, and yet they arc disgustingly apathetic. I must say, however, that when they do “go in,” they are a tolerably strong team. A little local gossip has been occasioned in town to-day, through a paragraph which appeared in the Mail yesterday, commenting in no very measured terms upon the conduct of our local postmaster and telegraphist, Mr Falck. The Mail accuses him of deliberately misrepresenting facts, in so far as he informed the proprietor of that journal that certain English news could not appear in the Drill.;/ Times of Monday last, thereby inducing him to have a very lengthy resume of news telegraphed for the benefit of his readers, albeit the said telegraphic news did appear in Daily Times. If what is stated by the Mail is correct, there is no doubt such conduct is extremely reprehensible, and is certainly not calculated to inspire the public with that confidence which is so necessary in an officer holding so responsible a position. The weather at present is delightful, and as a consequence all Nature is springing up in magnificent style.