Cromwell Argus AND NORTHERN GOLDFIELDS GAZETTE Cromwell, Monday, March 13,1905.

Cromwell Argus, 13 March 1905, Page 4

Cromwell Argus AND NORTHERN GOLDFIELDS GAZETTE Cromwell, Monday, March 13,1905.

Dr Coughtrey has resigned his position oa the Dunedln Drainage Board. The fever, wo understand, has been traced to come from Waimate to Mt. Pisa. The weather last week was hot. A good shower of rain would be very acceptable.

A good view of the eclipse of the sua was obtained last Monday. .Nearly a quarter of the sun's disk was obscured by the moon. The Land Commission arrived here at 3pm to take evidence. They will probably finish here to-night. The attention of our readers are directed to Random Shots and War News which appear on page 3. In view of the prevalcncy of bowel diseases, it is necessary that special atteution should be paid to the water and the drains. It is proposed that the railway leagues of Otago amalgamate so as to make initiated assault on the Government in order to further generally the interests of the province.'

The owner of a brown retriever dog that goes about worrying fowls had better keep him shut up, or he will run against a charge ot shot some day. The Health Department thinks that it is the duty of every resident to co-operate with the Borough Council in seeing that thfiir premises, etc, is kept perfectly clean. By this is meant that nothing such as potato peelings and vegetable matter should be allowed to lie about. Everything should be buried or burned.

Some mischievous person broke into Mr Bonner's house at Devil's Gully, Quarts Reef Point during his absence afc Matakanui. To gain an entrance the door was battered in and everything strewn about the floor. It is supposed that gold was the motive. It is only just that if the perpetrators of the deed could be found that severe punishment should be meted, out to them. On inquiry from the Health Officer as to what was the cause of typhoid fever, he stated that it was chiefly caused by the wet weather washing decayed matter into the water supplies and the hot weather decaying it. The member* of the crew of the Waithl Dredge hut week presented Mr George Woodhouee, one of their fellow workman with an engraved marble clock in honour of tht occasion of his marriage, Mr Munro in a few well chosen rematks made the presen* tatioi), Mr Woodbouse suitable replied,

The local Preßbyterian Church seems doomed to disappointment;. Last night Mr Gunn read a letter from Mr D. 1). Scott, Student' declining the call. It is to be hoped that the next call will be Busta : ned"

The many friends in this district will regret to learn th.it Eov Thomas Tait of Nightcaps while riding fo the black nuns' shop met with an accident, cau ed by a fall from h'a hr3e aid ie,ulted in having his arm broken and a sb'g t coocu a on < f the brain.

It is with regret we have to chronicle the death, from TyphoidfFever, of Mr Jam »b Rice ( better known as Ross) who passed away on Friday in Cromwell Hot pita'. Deceased was a native of Victoria. The remains were irterred in the New Cemetry yesterday. Owing to the sudden illness of the Rev Fi chett Mr .Stephenson officiated at the grave.

Myrtle Grove Cigarettes are manufactured in Loudon by Mestrß Taddy and Co. It isaid that at Myrtle Grove, Sir Walter Raleigh was soothing hia mind with tobacco he bad brought from Virginia, when Irish servant, thinking his matter was on fiie, dashed a bucket of water over bim to 'put him out '...

Messer*' A.Jones and Sons Limited, ETast. inge, assisted by Mr. H. Andrew?, representing Mes*eit>. Morrow Bassets and Co, t'hristchurch, held a trial of the Benicia Disc Plough at Te Aute in the rtclaimt-d .-.uamp laud on the Van. Archdeac >i. V\ illiams' property. Mr Allan William, who has done to much in working up ihi u class of country' which has been and iB full of timber, thought a disc plough Bh inld make good wurk. After the trial his tpinion was fully borne out. The manne iu which the plough worked and rolled over ihe stumps plepsed bim bo much that he dec ded to keep the implement and intends ordering more of them. The following business of local interest was transacted at the last meeting of the Land Board : Ranger McDougall forwarded an application from Georg* and William Gaudin fot a feawinill license over 100 acre* on the east side of the Wilkin River, about hree and a-half miloa above Calweli'd sawmill site.—The sawmill license held by D. Calwell was cancelled, and it was decided to granl a license to Gaudin and Son over the area applied for, the royalty to be ajessed by the raDger. —Ranger O'Neill forwarded a report on the application by W. C. Pitohcs for a grazing liceuse ov«r about three acres ia the towu of Clyde, above th*bridge.—Report adopted, ami the rental fixed at 20s per annum.—John King in applied for pastoral license over R ction* 12 t, 16, block V) Lower Wan&ka district.—Appi,cation approved.