PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 161, 10 December 1872, Page 6

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

1,133 immigrants are to arrive in Dunedin this month.

A horse was stung to death by bees at Auckland the other day. A “Canary and Poultry Association” is being formed in Dunedin. Starlings are reported to be very numerous in some parts of tire Taieri district. At New Plymouth, a few days ago, a lad received a sunstroke while bathing.

The Oamaru Times will be known in future as the North Ota»jo Times, and now appears in an enlarged form. A hop-growing experiment in this Province is described by a Dunedin paper as likely to prove highly successful.

A “religious awakening” is reported to have taken place among the Maoris in the Province of Wellington. Captain Bain, master of the City of Newcastle at the time of her wreck, is to be proceeded against criminally. Steps are being taken to "work the copper lodes discovered near the Puru stream, in the Thames district, some years ago. A boy three years of age, the son of Mr John Mellor, storekeeper, was found drowned in a race at Drybread, on Friday, Nov. 29. The Marlborough Express says that “Marlborough is like the Highlandman’s wife—- ‘ though she’s no vera big, she’s a deil o’ a sperrit,’ ” A Miner named Turner died at Nascby the other day, from injuries received by a fall from his horse. His funeral was attended by 400 people. A notion has been brought forward in the Canterbury Provincial Council to the effect that 420,000 be voted towards the introduction <f families and single women. Mrs C. C. Ho ward, nee Mrs Alpenny, (by which name she will be best remembered.' has- been presented in Dunedin with a pu?/|of fifty sovereigns, previous to her departure for England on a philanthropic mission. The Appeal Court at Wellington has delivcicd judgment in the case of Macau drew v. M‘Le;.n, in favour of the appellant, thus supporting the Pioviucial Government action in declaring Bellamy station open for selection. The cost of the machinery connected with Anderon’s Company’s claim, Inangahua, including the timber for the tramway and [addock, has amounted to £4050 ; and tiie total expenditure, in machinery and working expenses, has amounted to upwards of £12,000, A memorial to the Governor, praying for a commutation of the sentence to death of the woman Witting, has already received one thousand signatures in the neighbourhood of Invercargill. The general impression in Southland is said to be that she was goaded into dime.

Mr Brogden’s Chinese venture has proved a failure. The Celestials employed on the Clull'i raihvay have conclusively proved themselves not to he worth half the wages of Caucasian navvies, and consequently received a pressing invitation to leave the works, which they felt obliged to accept.

Oi.e item in connection with the Waste Land Board meeting yesterday is deserving of a passing notice, as it indicates progress The Province will shortly possess a second wodlen mannfactory, the locality of its oneratirns being One-mile Creek, near Queeiistowa. Wo understand that it will be worked by,i joint stock company, that all the shares are already subscribed, and that operations will be commenced shortly.- —Mummy Star. Hr Reader Wood addressed his constituents at Parnell, Auckland, recently, receiving ! a mammons vote of confidence. In reply to la question as to what the present Covem- | nnnt proposed doing, he said he was not in | tlnir confidento. The latest intelligence was | tbit Mr Uiclnudson was enjoying himself at !th) Canterbury Races, that Air Reynolds was Igdng to misrepresent the Colony at Sydney, (aid as to Mr Bathgate it was of small conseIfiienec where he was. Mr O’Rorke was attending to his duties as Speaker of the Auckhnd Provincial Council, Mr M‘Lcan was linking things pleasant on the East Coast, aid Mr Vogel was ill with the gout.

Gubernatorial movements and doings are

attracting attention just now. Viscount Canterbury is expected to leave Victoria in the | ind of February. Sir George Bowen, his jriiccessor, has applied for leave to visit England after leaving Few Zealand ; and as he ! las been absent from home for upwards of i-welve years, it is likely his request will he granted. Sir James Fergusson is to marry Miss Mary Iknies, niece of the Hem. \V. Degraves, of the South Australian Legislative Council. The lady is young and highly accomplished. The marriage will probably take place before Sir James goes home, which v. ill be this month. He has obtained leave to the Ist of May next.