CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 223, 3 August 1866, Page 2

CROMWELL.

The Municipal Boa d is now complete, aid its member's ar ■ likelv m work out the welfare of the d*s riot without any nnuleasant, vaiiauee of opiui>n. There are two distinct parties amongst our meu of pro uinence, and no board can ever wo k bar* tmuiously when personal autipahy exists in it- constitution. The Mayor has had his supporters returned as councillors. an<i a.* he was chosen by them, as their president, he nviy naturally calculate upon their cardial co-operation in all hing-ap-ihe Council is comprised of men who are own ms of substantial property ill the locality, and to all appearances they are deter. ■ninei to live and die as Croimvcllites. A<» I have srated in a former communication, they are bent upon making tlu town a c edit to the province a id< its commercial positioi is deemed by them quite equal in imoortanoe to that of Clyde. The arable i tnd of rhis district, is in itself a source, of much hope as to the fu tire p osperity ot'the Mu lictpal Town, aid our tradesmenfarmers are already producing not only large crops of potatoes aul other veg. tables together with corn, but also live-stock of more than commonplace value. One of them, Mr Birry, slaughterel porkers last week, weighing orer three-huudred weight, and others ae ready for slaughtering that will not be much under four-hundred-weight. Mining operations at tho gullies running into the oLuburu at the Cromwell diggings are progie.-sing in the most sa isfae.tory m tuner, and a visit by a party of Chinese was paid to the district soru • few lays past, and a claim was at once marked out by them. As there is an opening for I'ju ope»us 0 make reasonable wages in •my of ih- gullies mentioned, 1 do uot see a roas >u way Celeatoits shouid be eucou aged t,o talse up the ground.