TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 466, 14 April 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

(per greville &co., reuter’s agent.) Dunedin, April 13, 3.30 p.m. Mr. Cargill has formed a ministry; himself, Secretary for Public Works, Turnbull, Treasurer, Haughton Secretary for Goldfields, M‘Arthur, without oflice. The congregation^"the First Church have determined ir\?ect a monument to the late Dr Burns''at a cost of £SOO. Scarlatina is increasing in Waikoua'ti. There were eight deaths last week. The Municipalities of Balclutha and Milton have petitioned the Government to proceed with both ends of the Clutha Railway simultaneously. The Friendly natives are determined to open up th“\A rah A goldfield, and to remove obstructions to the transit of the mail. A \ H.M.S. Virago, which was about to proceed to England, has received instructions to remain in Wellington in consequence of lire intelligence received by the Governor respecting filibustering expeditions. Dunedin, 4. 45 p.m. Haughton besides the Goldfiolds has charge of the Public Works department. The result of the census have been published. v VIBG7 1871 Otago 4&,577 60,570 Southland ... L ' 8,000 10,000 Dnnedm aud.Suburbs 18,031 21,460 The increase in the city proper is two thousand two hundred. A correspondent informs us that at German-hill the miners are making very farr wages, although water has been scarce for some time past. It is reported that some of the miners are going over to try their luck at the deep sinking at Black’s No 3.

At the Garibaldi diggings on the Hough Ridge opposite Hill’s Creek, there are three parties sluicing, making wages. Water has been rather scarce for some time past.

The Provincial elections are all over. Only twenty m mbers of the last Council have been re-elected.

Good Friday was observed as a holiday throughout the district, but no notice whatever was taken of Easter Monday except by the banks and Government offices. The enterprising party who havo secured a water right from the Leaning Rock Creek are actively engaged surveying the line of their race.

Mr. Gilbert of the Seaman’s Mission preached in the Clyde church last Sunday e\ enuig.

The Thames e rrespondent of the Cross, writing on the 21st, says:—Further news of a startling character reached me this morning from the Upper Thames, and the facts are such as to lead to very se-ious apprehension whether the opposition of the natives to the Tauranga mail route will be overcome, excepting by the adoption of determined measures on the par tv of khe Government. 1 have to report tl’mtlast, after mmy narrow escapes, tlievCauranga mail has fallen into the hands of the batives. On Sunday last the mailman (a Maori) from Tauranga was espied by some Uauhaus, and chased and taken ; and the Ma ris are exceedingly jubilant thereat. They still hold possession of the mail,land express a determination to retain it. It is also said that the tribes Xgatikoe and Ngatiporou are expected 'to return 1 1 the Upper Thames in a day or two, and that they are resolved to maintain the aukati, and will shoot any unauthorised person who may attempt to break it. lam informed that pickets are posted all over the country, and that in some places post-and-rail fences have been thrown as barricades across main tracks. A notification in the “Gazette” states that the Provincial Government is prepared to receive applications from persons desirous of taking up laud for the purpose of planting forest trees. Each applicant will be allowed to take up an area of land not exceeding two hundred and fifty acres, to be selected in any part of the province: provided that, if within goldfields the warden of the district will be required to report, and should the application be granted, it will bo subject to the provisions of tbe Agricultural Lease Regulations, as to entry to mine or prospect for gold. Any person whose application is accepted will be required, during the first year, to fence ia the whole-,of the area granted to him, and to plant VMi approved forest trees one-fifth of the arda itVing each of the second, third, and fifth yeiJrs. The remaining fifth may be used for cultivation, at die option of the occupant. As soon as these conditions are fulfilled,,the occupier will be entitled to receive a Crown grant free of cost.

A daring joke was ptayed off in Christchurch on the first of April. The presence of His Exccdcncy the Governor, and the well-known urgent desire of many citizens to interview him, wore events not to lie passed over by the wits. The result was the issue of letters purporting t<> be signed by His Excellency’s aide de camp, and inviting the recipients to attend a levee at the Club. By some the trick was discovered in time ;-but others, so overpowered by the honor conferred upon them, did not observe that the letters were signed Kidd, A.D.C., instead of Pitt, A.D.C., and after much careful preja' ation, proceeded in orthodox costume to the Club at the app nntetJ Rpnr. What their feelings were whefw Jhey were told that a hoax had been perpetrated, may be imagined, A woollen factory is about to be established at Mosgiel, near Dunedin, byJjMr. A. J - Burns. The plant and twenty four operatives are on their way from Scotland in the Holcnslee.

The negro Simon Cedeno sentenced to death for the murder of a servant gir named Margaret Burke, was hanged in Lyttloton gaol on the 3rd inst. The San Eranoisco correspondent of a Brisbane paper says that the notorious Mrs. Kinder, who acted so conspicuous a par t some years ago before the^vimhj.al,courts in Sydney, with Bertrand, wit\ to the murder of her married to a Dutchman, and is keeping, a general store in San Francisco.

The flllowing is from a South African paper called the Diamond-field, of the 27th of October:—“A capital story has just been brought in. A sweet-looking Koranna girl went out on the Plieil side, dipping up from the claim of a party in a bucket, and going down to the river and wanting it for her own a [vantage. There was only one white man in charge of the party, and ho a smart young Englishman. He was too gallant to drive away a girl, althongshedid not belong t) his own fair race. He allowed the girl to go on taking up ground from the surface and washing it. At' she laughed and threw her hands aliqut and laughed heartily Our friend the Englishman rushed over to see what the matter was, when ha found that she had picked up a diamond, and a beauty too. The gentleman did the proper thing : he made her an offer on the spot. He is of first-rate family, and vows that he will introduce his wife to his family as an African Princess of great distinction. It is stated that during the first month the Land Transfer Act was in force in this province, property to the value of L 25.000 has been placed under its provisions. Late telegrams from Sydney state that the Government ot Kew South AVales have promised to place £IO,OOO on the estimates for an annual subsidy to a Californian lino via Honolulu and Fiji.

The London “Gazette” ot the 17th of January, notifies that in future sovereigns and half-sovereigns made at the Sydney Mint, which have been for some time past legal currency in the United Kingdom, shall be so hereafter in all the British Colonies, India excepted.

At. Burke’s Point, on , the west bank o Molyneux, about two miles from Clyde, Messrs, Slaven, Williamson, and party are running oil’ a large paddock, with the view of trying to get at the main bottom, where it is believed there is a rich deposit of the precious metal. The run of gold worked some time ago by the Alabama is supposed to have run into this point, and some years ago, when the river was very low, excellent prospects were got on the j,beaoh. The owners of the two next claims to Sis ven and Company, namely Alexander and party and Ryan and party, are making gooci wages. An Auckland paper says that Mr. St, John Branigan will visit his native country, a sea voyage being recommended as the Vest remedy for his malady and general physical powers. An eccentric thief inj Kilmore, Victoria, stol) a page of a newspaper in type, as “ locked up" by the printer. The “form” was found under a bridge, with the type all in “ pie.” From the Fijis we learn that hostilities had broken nut between two tribes, and it was rumored that Levuka was to he attacked. The white settlers had formed a rifla club, and were actively drilling. Popular feeling was very strong against the British Consul, and, at a public meeting, it was resolved to contribute £1,00(1 inwards the San Francisco mail, and to's<hfect“lights in the harbor. Steps had also been taken to (form a banking company. The “Mount Ida Chronicle” is informed that the Serpentine|‘is favorite resort of the Chinese. A man named .lohn Pasco, a shareholder and director of the Xugget and’Cornish Company, WaTs killed bn Saturday morning last, at the ’ He was in the act of oiling the"*machinery, when a woollen comforter, which he was wearing, got entangled in it. His body drawn in, and he was instantaneously killed. The residents of the Thames have commenced to agitate separation from Auckland.

11l the examination of Frank Porter Mansfield, in the Dunedin Bankruptcy Court,the . bankrupt, who had keen proprietor ot Cobh’s line of coaches, said he found that , the only way to carry on the business was to have a secret service, which he kept up. Whenever a man belonging to the service was “spotted” he was discharged. This service cost nearly £7OO. By its means witnessls profits went up to £2,700. Before its establishment Mr. .Chaplin lost moneys The Homan Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, in a discourse on education, delevered at St. Joseph’s Church, on the evening of Sunday, the 2nd inst., withdrew from the priests of his diocese the faculty of giving the Sacrament to those of his denomination who send their children to the Provincial Government Schools and Christian burial to those who | die while their children attend such schools. Exception is ma le, however, to residents in places where there are no Catholic schools. In such places parents are to be permiteed to send their children, provide 1 they insist upon their be ng sent away when Protestant instructions are given. To in ot the times we presume Messrs. Cobb and Co., have pa* on an extra coach between Cly 'e and Tnapeka. The coaches for Lawrence leave Clyde on Wednesday and Saturday, and leave Lawrence for Clyde on Monday and Thursday. The Alta Company, Bendigo cleared up last week with a result of one hundred and thirteen ounces from one hundred and fifty tons of quartz, or an average of about fifteen pennyweights to the ton. The ca«e of Wilson v. Brotherston, heard in the Resident Magistrates’s Court, Clyde, on Tuesday last, was a most extraordinary one Wilson, a storekeeper, sued Biotherston, a miner, for L4l 6a. Id , for goods supplied since 1867. Mr. Brough appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Wilson for defendant. Plaintiff went into witness box, and deposed that the amount sqotl for was owing him. A formidable account was produced and Mr. Wilson, to the consternation of the court, wished the plaintiff to prove every item, lie however, allowed the recount to be sworn to inglobo. In cross-examination, a receipt for L 25 was produced, dated 1868, which Wilson admitted, but state 1 was for onother account, which, however, did not appear in his book. He also admitted he had received LlO which had not been credited to defendant. On being examined relative to amounts of LlO 12s, 6d.. and 12 13s. 9J..he first admitted them all, and afterwards corrected himself by stating that the LIO meant LlO 12s. 6>L, ami that tee LlO 12s. 6d meant Ll2 13s, Oil. He also stated that he never entered the amounts paid him. A book in which he stated everything was entered, was then produced hut only made matters worse, and in further cross-examin-ation the witness got entirely bewildered. Court and counsel sharer! ju his bewilderment and floundered about for some time finally drifti ug helplessly into a hopeless state of 1 fog.” Mr. Pyke suggested that the case he adj oumed for the purpose of getting a business like account, but Mr. Brough said that it was impossible to make one up out of plaintiff’s books. He had got a severe headache trying to do it and he would not attempt it again. He wished to call Brothrston but as he had not been subpcenmtl, Mr. Wilson objected to his being called and, on Mr. Brough requesting Mr. Harvey to make out a subpoena Mr. Wilson told his client to leave the court and ride away as fast as he could. Mr. Wilson then objected to the time of the court being wasted. Mr. Brough then closed his case. Mr. Wilson placed Brotherston in the box who stated that he had paid AVilson at different times L 25, LlO, LlO 12s. 6d. and Ll2 13s. 9J. In cross-examination ho admitted still owing L 3. Mr. Pyke said it was impossible to arrive at anything like a decision. L4l 6s. Id. was sued for ; it appeared that LA7 13s. 9d. had been paid and defendant admitted he still owed JL3; Ho gave judgment for L 3.

We remind those of our readers who possess dogs that it is time to register those animals for the current year. A correspondent Jof a country paper suggests that Mr. Fox should pay a visit to King Tawhaio to induce him to give up drinking rum and sign the pledge. A conteraparary states that the General Assembly will meet for business either the first or second week in July At Sandy Hook, Knowles and Simmons have a number of wages men employed in trying for the main bottom. On a false bottom gold has been found, which will not, however, pay more than wages.