THE SOUTH.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 336, 28 December 1865, Page 3

THE SOUTH.

We have our umal files of papers from the -different provinces by the Lord Ashley. The latest news from the gold-fields will be found ■elsewhere. We append a few of the most interesting items; — -— painful duty, says the Wanganui Chronicle, of inst., to state that .Lieut. Lawson and Ensign G. C. Terchius, both, belonging to tin 18th Royal Irish, were ■drowned yesierdaj, at Patea, while lathing. We have not learnt any reliable.particulars -Connected vyith this sad occurrence, but the fact itself is undoubted. The accident has -cast a gloom over the front, where these officers were universally esteemed for their high character and chivalrous disposition.— We are sorry to add to the above tiie record -of another death, which also occurred by •drowning. This morning, Private Toomey, •of the 50th Hegt,, was observed to sink while bathing along with a number of his comrades, in the river immediately above the soldiers’ huts. Several attempts were at once made to assist the unfortunate man, but they proved unsuccessful. The body was recovered in the course of the day. The New Zealand Advertiser, of the 25th inst., has the following respecting the arrest at Wellington of a bank clerk for embezzlement : —On Saturday last, John M. Broughton, about nineteen years of age, late of Wanganui, and brother to. Mr Broughton, interpreter, who was so brutally murdered recently by the natives, was arrested at the South Sea Hotel by, Mr Police-Inspector Atchescn on the charge of having embezzled certain monies while acting as clerk in the branch of the New South Wales Bank at Wanganui. /Hie information was laid by Mr Fitzpatrick, the manager of the Bank, and as it was required to be executed imme--diately, Broughton was at once arrested, and is at present in gaol to await the first opportunity for being forwarded to Wanganui for the hearing of the case. We understand the amount of the alleged embezzlement—upon which this specific charge has been made—is £lO. A Ministerial crisis has occurred at Otago, and Mr Brodie, the hon. member for the gold fields, has been entrusted with the task of supplying His Honor the Superintendent with an Executive. His Excellency the Governor had further ther prorogued the next meeting of the General Assembly to Thursday, the 25th day of January, in a proclamation issued in the New Zealand Gazette, of the 23rd inst. It is probable (says the Independent of the -,23rd) that Sir George Grey will leave for ■Wanganui next week. This visit has some connection with the long-talked of movement

against the rebel natives by General Chute. A robbery had been committed at the Hutt on the 20th instant, when a cashbox, containing some .£26 in money and cheques, was abstracted from the store of Mr Hugh Gleland. No traces of the perpretrator of the crime bad been found by. the police. His Honor the Superintendent of Wellington left for Wanganui on Sunday evening last. ' It was believed that his visit had some connection with the General Government service. It has been arranged that a deputation, consisting of the Board of Directors and the Manager of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company, will wait upon the hon. Sir Stafford to-morrow, for the purpose of laying before him the injustice which will be inflicted upon the Company if the mail steam subsidies are withdrawn from them in the manner contemplated by Government.