PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 50, 26 October 1870, Page 6

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

The Superintendent and Executive have gone to Riverton. At Invercargill, on the 19th instant, Messrs M'Gillivray, Johnston, Toshack, Oalder, Kinross, Ba-sstian, and Wilson, were elected to the united Provincial Council. The s. s. Phoebe, with the San Francisco mails on board, was expected to arrive at Port Chalmers on Saturday last. The next mail via Suez will, probably, arrive at Hokitika on the 3rd November. The Bruce Herald's " Peripathetic Jotter" has met with an accident, having broken the middle finger of his right hand in endeavoring to manage his horse, which had fallen over a landslip in Dansey's Pass. An inquest was held on the 19th inst,, on the body of Robert Hunter, a settler at Dacre, near Invercargill, who was found on Saturday in a tributary of the Mataura. The tinders at first supposed that he had been drowned, but when the body was taken out four wounds were discovered in the neck. The medical evidence stated that death had been caused by suffocation. The jury returned an open verdict. Gold has been found in payable quantities on the sea beach between the mouth of the Molyneux and the Nuggets. Mr John Rentin, who arrived by the Wallace last week from Port Molyneux, brought with him about fourteen or fifteen pounds weight of amalgam gold obtained from the prospecting claim. The gold was the produce of three men's work for three weeks only, so that the yield averages about £7O per man per week. Mr Rentin states that two other claims are also obtaining payable gold, and that there ' are also about fifty men at work. In the Charleston Herald and Brighton \ Times, a paper published in Charleston, | on the West Coast of Nelson, there are no | less th&n twenty-nine hotel advertise- j ments. All of these, with the exception of four, are situated in Charleston and Brighton, and seven of them are kept by ladies, viz. : —The Post Office Hotel, by Mrs Webber ; The Globe Hotel, by Misses Connell and Martin; the City Hotel and Billiard Room, by Miss Carmody ; the French and American Hotel, by Madame Riehardet; the Emerald Isle Hotel, by Miss Catherine Murphy ; the Gridiron Hotel, by Miss A. P. Haddow ; the Sluices' Arms Hotel, by Misses Elkin and Hayes; and the West Coast Hotel, by Miss Julia Callaghan. Chang, the wonderful Chinese giant, who arrived at Auckland by the mail steamer from San Francisco, is accompanied by his wife, King Foo, the Tartar Dwarf, Chung Mow, and their two interpreters. When this very interesting party of Celestials paid a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales, Chang was desired to write his " chop" on the wall of the room. At the height of nearly ten feet from the ground the Chinese scholar quickly placed his name. Cluing is 7 feet 9 inches high, and 19 years of age. One of his sisters attained the extraordinary height of 8 feet i inches. The Tartar Dwarf is 33 years old, and is only 28 inches high. Woo Kwan Toon, the giant's secretary, is a Christian convert, and an interesting character. Chang is most gentlemanly in his manner. He is an able scholar, and he purposes publishing a narrative of his tour in England, which, we doubt not, will excite much interest.

The annual moeting of the Otago District Committee of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, met at the District Chambers, Oddfellows' Hall, on Wednesday, the 12fch instant. The District Officers were all present, and the following Lodges were represented by their Delegates : Hand and Heart, Dunedin; Dunedin, Dunedin ; Albion, Dunedin ; Prince of Wales, Port Chalmers ; Prince Alfred, Waikotuiiti ; Waitahuna, Waitahuna ; Tuapeka Pioneer, Lawrence; Nasebv, Naseby; Roxburgh, Teviot ; Tapauni, Tapanui; Oamaru, Oamaru ; Lake Wakatipu, Qneenstown ; Alexandra, Port Molyneux. Four of the Lorl fe <s had not appointed Delegates. An application was received through the Loyal Lake Wakatip Lodge, for the opening of a new Lodge at Cromwell. The application was .signed by twenty-seven intendingmembers. A large amount of other business was transacted, and afterwards the meeting proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing twelve months, when Bro. Joseph Sherman was elected Provincial Grand Master ; Bio. Robert Swan, Deputy Provincial Grand .Master ; and Bro. Sligo was reelected as Provincial Corresponding K«i«retarv ; Pitst P.G.M. James Robin being ..■! .•!■.] District Treasurer.