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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 376, 11 June 1868, Page 3

A gentleman at Warrington has offered LI, 500 towards the erection of a Wesleyan chapel, schoolhouse, and minister's house at Haydock, near Warrington, on condition that the Wesleyan body, to which he does not belong, will raise as much more, A Melbourne paper states that a passenger by the last Panama mail to Well* ington has had stolen from him, or lost on the way in course of transit, a box containing securities and paper to the value of L 200,000. This Muuchausen-like affair does not seen to have been reported to the police or to have appeared in either the Victorian or New South Wales "Police Gazette." Mr Pope Hennessy has inaugurated his governorship of Labuan in a spirit and with a vigour which promise well for the ' future of that island. On. the 24th December he laid the first stone of a Chinese school, drove the first stake of the first wharf, and the first of a fish and fruit market, and afterwards entertained at the Government-house all the officials and the principal inhabitants, without distinction of race. The new works will not be so expensive as to trench too heavily on the limited resources of the island, while they will encourage commerce by multiplying the facilities for carrying it on, and render the place additionally attractive as a residence to the eastern races. Governor Hennessy has shown, both in the selection of the works and bis inaugural address, that he recognises the importance to such a settlement of the Chinese element of the population, which is the backbone of commerce and industry in the Far East ; and j if the policy which he has adopted is steadily followed up his abilities will not have been in vain transferred from the Imperial Parliament to that distant island. The Trades' Council at Birmingham have resolved on having a working man aa one. of\their representatives. They propose to ya.y him L3OO a year and his election exjienses. This proposal was brought bef o& a full meeting of the trades on Thursday ' evening, ~and was unanimously adopted.