CROMWELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 26

CROMWELL.

August 1. — This present pea?on seems turned a little top&y-turv y. We had a hare I frost at the beginning of June, then a spell o I mild, open weather, and now at the opening o , August a week of wild, windy weatlicr, endni| j up with a snowsfcoim. Showers ol snow hsv< ! been falling on the lulls for the la.st few daj^ j but on Sunday morning the flats were covered ! and on Sunday night two or thiee inches oi ; snow lay in the stieets of Cromwell. j Hospital. — The dispute about this has no; yet come to a close. The decision of tut Supreme Coiirt unseated one of the parlies pioceecled against, but lelt the other in posses sion of his office. The decision that unscatec Mr Holden was based on a point that, i raited, would unseat Mr Behicns, and ho has 1 boie\e, ceased lo ast as a member. Tin "lump" of the tiust appointed a doctor, wht refuted to accept the position, so that things aie at piesent in a. rather mi::ed condition The universal wish is that the doctor may al last conic out of all his unme^ted ti-oubl« hiumphantly, and that he will in future b; able lo follow his profession without b?mg sub . icct to the unfounded utlacks o[ any poily 01 clique, however insignificant vi munbais 01 standing. DREDGING. The Alpine diedge is at pio.cit booming owing lo the fact that aoveii'l good wash-iips have been got lately. Mr 0. W. lVinadi ha; bouglit a bhaie in her, and is intending, to sol. out of the biewery business. The discoveij of gold at their lower boundaiy should wake up tho fLutlcy and iveiily iJpac.li jjpople to tome pun;osc. I am sony to say that the Bowman Flal Company has got off the golden iuii it was on, The last two or three wash-ups yielded eiiOLi^h gold to pay weie coal cheaper, but having tc pay for 25 miles of caitagc on the coal iequn.es a lew e::tia ouuees weekly. The Maori is to bo moved up the liver, where, as the nver is moie confwied, bcttei gold may b? looked for. j 'Ihe Eichaid's Beach giouncl on tli«- south ! side of the Kawaiau, beiow the Baai.ockburn t budge, has been pegged out by the Electric I Company, winch it is lo be hoped will do more than meiely hold it. The Electric dredges keep woiking away, but it is haid to s^y whethci they aie making a fortune or losing money. They \eij cio^e [ about lotiuus