CROMWELL.-Argus.

Otago Witness, Issue 1476, 28 February 1880, Page 11

CROMWELL.-Argus.

Mr Petrie paid aa official visit to the Cromwell School last week. Tho new echool at, PtmVoke, Likn Wanako, wsa opened by a BOiroe and c ->ncert on tho 6th intt. The Pembrolf e 1 school is de-cribed b.r a model rf comfort and health. Its ceilings are 15 feet his>h, while tho izlebe in connection w'th it covor-" six acres. The amount received at Cromwell up to the 22nd inst., in aid cf ihe liifih Famine Belief Fund, was ahout £130. It is intended to remit tho sum direot'to tho Lord Mayor of Dublin. A complimentary banquet was glve'i to Mr I. Loughnan on the eve of Jiia depirture on a visit to Europe. Mr Loughran hai for many years tmingged the Mount Pioa Station, in tho vioioity of Cronnvall. Mr Rolleston promised while in Crumwell that the necassary mips would be provided in the Cromwell offic?, and the ckrk pi .iced in a position to receive applications ?n'. otherwise trans <ct lani business. ]n reply to a denutntion respecting the opening of J*nd in the Clutha Vulloy, Mr RolUotm said that sever .il blocks w-ouM be declared opon for helcctlon immediately on defeiriid payments, this beinc:, in the opmicncf Oov.-rnmant, the system host adapted to pioraote6cma^c?esittleai<jntand prevent thoac^uiroment o£ larao *rea< by capitahstß. A deputation wtitoil upon tha Kon Mr Rolltston while at Cromwe 1 In reft-ronon to Athei team matters. It was icprfßen'ed that tho committee was indebted to th exto) tc f £600 or £7CO. incurred upon the strawtb of the endowment levenuo. A. Crown grantnnt, having bcoii issued, the terianta dcclii od to acknowlodgo tho coraniittee'fl iii;ht to collect rmt-i, and tin dilfioultus cnltn;n*ted by the disastrous flood of 1878 rendering tlio eii'iowment value ess 1 Mr Rolleston laid ih«re ws no voto by whicli tha 10-s if revenue could b^ nifti'.cgoid. Ho is'iol the ommittr-e to place tho I matter before him in writing, but warded them not t'j besftßt v 'r re °'a taliaf result. i