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Cromwell Argus, 30 March 1931, Page 4

With the Easter liolidays, all matter ior insertion in our next issue should be forwarded as early as possible. 'tiie annual general (meeting- of the Lowburn l-ootuaii Club is called tor JLliursuay evening- next. Messrs O’Kane Bi Jos., surgeon dentists, have an announcement re the Easter Holidays. Cromwell will be visited on Wednesday, as usual, anduhe next visit will be on April 15th. The Cromwell Football Club will hold the.annual meeting- on Wednesday evening. Alexandra has already I iieid tne annual meeting, and is -in a I nourishing position with a credit j balance o;t Xjioi. The Arrow Sports Club will hold its annual meeting on Faster Monday, when a splendid prize list will be oxtered tor events embodying ail classes of athletic sport. Entries tor the Sheffield Handicap are due on Saturday, April 4th. The recent steady rise in the price of wool has evidently been the means of releasing the wool clips held in this district for the ensuing Dunedin sale 011 10th April. On several days last week —on Wednesday particularly, these seemed to be an almost endless stream of lorries through the town, kill laden with wool for the railhead. Amongst this many' local well-known brands were to be seen. .Mrs j. jlc. 'juiomsun, Queensberry xiuis, wauajta Koau, was a very successmi competitor at tne Lake county i.v. and F. bocietys snow, Held, on March listli. Tne prizes won by Mrs x noui.sun included urst for walkmg roadster, first tor i5St hack, first tor bast mare or gelding, and first tor best lady rider; second tor turnout hack, second ior best paced hack; third tor walking roadster, and third tor lady’s hack. Economy in postage is being exercised in many quarters. One or tne latest is in connection with the monthly visit last weeic of a welli.'raivoiicr. tie , nad concluded ms business with a local merchant and on tus departure the latter casually noticed an advice card on the desk. He merely passed it ovei 011 tlio presumption tnat advice of tl>~ present visit had perhaps been overlooked, and the card had been left by the traveller as a matter of form. Later the merchant gave it further scrutiny, and found it was advice for the next visit in a months time. A meeting of the committee A appointed by the C rom we/1 District Mining Association—Messrs Er. juu;,. W. Jel ley, G. Stumbles, M. de Jiettencor, J. L. Stewart Wright, and R. Varcoe —to draw up the constitution and rules of the association, met on Tuesday evening, and completed their work, the Executive Committee also dealing- with other matters demanding early attention. The constitution and rules will be presented Ho a general meeting of the association in the Council Chambers tomorrow evening, ajt 7.130 p.m. To this meeting all members and intending- members, in fact all interested in the stimulation and welfare of the Mining- industry, are. cordially invited. Hoot Gibson is the popular star in •‘Coin-tin Wildcats,” the Oddfellows big attraction for next Saturday. The story is that Clarence Butts, college student, poses as a weakling to avoir! being sent to work in his father’s foundry. Unobserved, he makes “whoopee” with the best of them. In a roadhouse raid, he fights the police and leads them a mad chase in his racing- roadster. The family doctor gets on to Clarence, and has him placed with a wild west show. There Clarence courts destruction by courting “Calamity June,” a good looking performer who is death to all presuming males. “Calamity June” is a man-hater because a man robbed her father of their fortune. One day the miscreant), pursued by the police, appears at the wild wesTa show, and June shoots him. Clahcnco spirits June away from the mob in bis automobile, and by his wild driving tames her, and she consents to marry him. As the ceremony is about to be oerformed the good news is brought that the man she shore: was only slightly wounded, and is safely in !.hc hands of the police.

The Salvation Army, Sunday next 7 p.m., Good Friday 7.30 p.m. Capt. Millet- and Lieut, Jones.

In tho county tennis match on Saturday-, Maniototo defeated Vijicont by 12 .sets to' n, with one unfimished. Had this gone to Vincent, Maniototo would have still won on games.

In connection with cricket matches against visiting teams on the Wauaka Domain on Saturday and Monday next, a charge of one shilling admission for gents will he made. The Municipal elections take place this month. Hie retiring Mayor (Mr Roberts)-* is definitely seeking reelection and from the work undertaken during the last two years, and foi service rendered generally, will win general approval from ratopa\eis. This applies likewise to any members of tho council.

1 Harvest Thanksgiving »erV|iqe was held in the Methodise Churches at Bannockburn and Cromwell yesterday. The Cromwell Church was beautifully decorated with fruit, flowers, vegetables, grain, etc., and an appropriate, sermon was preached bj Rev. R. Middleton Taylor. During the service, Mr F. Gibson sang a solo The sale of produce, etc., will be held this evening, at 7.30 p.m. in connection with the Easter holidays this week, mails lor despatch cm Friday will close on Thursday iiignt, but mails for despatch on Monday wik close as usual. Exchange hours 011 Friday will be 0 a.m. to 10 a.in., am 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., and on Monday 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be a counter delivery ot letters and registereds on Thursday and Saturday evenings, from 7 P-m----to 8. Lowburn rural will not go out on Friday or Monday, but the others will go out as usual.

Ou account of his usual night tailing on Good Friday, Mr Hull will tins week screen his programme on Wednesday evening-. lor this he has a grea outdoor talk thriller, “Beau Bandit, a glamorous love epic of the flaming borderlands in ringing dialogue. This* picture is far off the beaten track. The scenes arc not confined to the narrow limits of a sound studio stage. The picture was films*! outside almost in its entirety, giving i a sweep and movement possible only with the use of natures scenic seta. Rod La Rocque plays the lead and the lending feminine role is played o> •lovely Doris Kenyon, whose surging voice is heard on the screen for the first time.

The recent rise in the price of wool was to some extent reflected in prices for stock at the final Tanas sale on Saturday. About 4000 sheep J»oit yarded and disposed of at prices showing a better tone than at the prevwra sale liliree weeks ago. A buj ei liom the Ashburton district bought freely, and several lines went to Makaiora and Lake County. Top price for the sale was for a line of crossbred cues, which realised 14s. Other prices were : Two, four, six, and tooth fat and forward wethers, 7» 3 d . cl .^, bred mixed sex lambs, 6s 6d ; m ,xed sex half bred lambsj, 3 s . 6d i wether lambs, 4 s 6d ; full and so and mouth ewes, good sorts, 4 s 9 d and e S 0 d; sound-mouth half bred ewes, tine woolled, 3 s and 3* 3 d 5 fo “ r and sixtooth crossbred ewes, 10s 3d. Old ewes which at the previous sale v ould not have elicited a bid brought > ,s 6d, and is o d, the latter for a good line of this class. A line of freezing wethers, a portion of which had previously been sold at 6sj, on trucks, Cromwell, made 6s 2d 011 the giounci. Although prices are very low, it is satisfactory to know that the movement is the right wav;.

There is a growing- activity m mining in various parts o*l the district, and several prospecting ventures are spoken of. The area on the south side of the Kawarau river, from Ue s flat .to the “Gum-trees” has always had the eye o£ miners. Recently Mr A. Tait has been driving out a block of land at “Gee's Flat” m the vicinity of where rich ground has previously been worked. He is aiming at striking the back reef. He has some encouragement in a sample of rough gold taken from what miners term the front reef, and is coni uu mg in the direction of his objective. Further up, near the HGujn-treas, _ Mr W. Scott is busy on a high pencil which has always been considered a likely area, but where, peculiarly water made. It is a locality which greatly impressed the former Inspector, Mr Whitley, who was anxious to see it tested, but work was being carried out during the war when Government aid had to be curtailed. The lateab is that a wellknown tradesman of Cromwell has, in the course of his calling, discovered something in the nature ot a defined lead through the Crown Terrace, near Arrovvtown, and old miners are very much impressed with the possibilities. Well, “Dave” has been a great trier for gold, and everyone will sincerely hope bis find is a real one, and that he will not be “building 'castjes in the air, but a small fortune from gold. It will be more lucrative than building houses at the present time. Steps have been taken to secure Ithe land, and prospecting is to start at once. It ; .is reported that there was quite a little excitement •in pegging bv others on Saturday. 01/mmerf like tl.o projects.