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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2009, 13 October 1869, Page 2

Jetty Extension. The Government has decided to extend the Rattray street Jetty about two hundred yards further into the bay, along the lino of the present training wall. The work is to be done by prison labor. Foresters’ Fete, —■ The Foresters intend to hold their fete this year at the Caledonian grounds on the Prince of Wales' birthday. Efforts are being made to mate the fete as successful as previous ones, and the programme of sports for the occasion is unusually attractive. Amongst them is a velocipede race of two miles. Invercargill.—A telegram in today’s Bruce Herald says:-- -“ The elections for the Provincial Council are monopolising the whole attention. The candidates in favor of re-union are certain to be in the majority. This is generally considered to he the only means of retrieving the position of the Province. Business in general is frightfully depressed.” Gold in Canterbury.—The reward for the discovery of a payable goldfield was claimed yesterday by four men, named Thomas M‘Mahon, Francis Gundry, Patrick Ryan, and Thomas Anderson. They say they are prepared to show the ground to anyone appointed by the Government. The stone shown by them, as obtained from the reef, was analysed by Mr Stansell; and a large proportion of gold found present. — Press, 7th inst. The Superintendence of Nelson. —With regard to the forthcoming election for the Snperintcndeney of Nelson, the Colonist states that the present holder of the office still desires to retain his scat. Mr W. Gibbs, of Totaranni; Mr William Akersten, of Nelson ; Mr Thomas Dwan, of Charleston, and last, and least, Mr J. Poppleton Horn, of Appleby, have scvera'ly announced their intention to cone forward and appeal to the people for their suffrages. Mr Horn’s notification is supposed to bo a joke. Canterbury Provincial Council.— The Provincial Council was opened on Friday last, the attendance of members being small. The Superintendent's speech was a very leng one. He congratulated the Council on the return of the progressive prosperity which marked the early growth of the Province. He reviewed the past financial depression, and touched on the native war. Yet, he said it was impossible not to recognise the foundation of a prosperous future firmly laid. Whilst the pastoral interests had suffered, agriculture had spread, and no doubt the latter would continue to increase ; and the lauds now lying idle cultivated on a large scale or distributed amongst a growing population to promote the wealth of the country. He congratulated the Council on the establishment of flax and meat preserving manufactories. He was not without hope of payable goldfields being discovered in the Province. Referring to southern matters, he said :—“ Yon will be asked to consider proposals for the apportionment of revenue to the districts of the Province south of the Rangiatata, and correspondence will be laid before yon, embodying principles on which I consider such apportionment should be made. In the interests of a largo and rapidly increasing district of the province, I trust that such measures may be adopted as w.ll lead to the abandonment of views on the part of a section of the inhabitants, which, if they were carried out, could not bnt be prejudicial both to the interests of the district and to the good government of the province. I am unable to perceive that there is any dissimilarity of interests, or eny geographical barrier between the country north and. south of the Rangiatata which can at all interfere with the due management by one Government of a uniform system of administration in all matters relating to police, gaols, harbor?, immigration, education, and the waste lands of the Province. The management of the local works will no doubt be best carried out, as elsewhere in the Province, by the local authorities.” He congratulated the Council on the fact of contracts being entered into for the construction of the Rakaia bridge, and said that they would be asked to supplement the vote for the Waitangi bridge by L 3,000, which was to be met by a similar sum by the Otago Provincial Government. Thirty thousand pounds were sot apart for railway extension, and five thousand pounds for the construction of a tramway in the Selwyn district. The remainder of the speech was principally devoted to statistic?. —Timaru Herald,