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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 840, 13 October 1870, Page 2

M" Henry Shafto Harrison, lon * the representative of Wanganui in (ho General Assembly, ha: token leave of his constituents and public life. Late n?wß from the Thames is any thin;? but encouraging. We lemm that the district is r-uffering from dull trade, want of employment, ami general depression, and that largo numbers are leaving. In a leading artic'o on the reunion of Otago and Southland —which dates from the the 6ih met. —the Wellington Independent say a that t.lit- day r.v.ne.ot be far distant when, Ike i-outld-nd, with tours of sovrcw and repentance, Hawke's Bay and Marlborough wiil SQck to be taken back. In the Canterbury Provincial Council, ov. the 7th i.nsc, Mr Hall moved resolutions for the appointment of a committee on the subject of the development of native industries in a very lengthy speech, advocating the growth of flax instead of graia j and said that red tufa rock on the peninsula contained ingredients for making Portland c?raent. We learn from a telegram in the Wellington Independent that the unemployed in Oiirist church had another meeting on the 7th inst. Great dissatisfaction was expressed at the action of the Government in dismissing some SO mon who were working on the Domain for 43 a day. A committee appointed by the Provincial Council brought up an interim report the same day, recommending the Government to re-employ the dismissed men. We (Wanganui Chronicle) understand that Air Cooper, solicitor, of this town, has communicated with his agents in England, relative to the claim of Mr William Francis Drake, of Wanganui, to tho Drake instates, at Nutyvell .Court, Devon, Sir Thomas Tray ton Fuller Elliot Drake, Bart, having died in the month of June last. The deceased baronet, was uncle to the present claimant; who, until lately, was a cabman at the Thames diggings. The Melbourne Argus saya that pleuropneumonia is very prevalent at present among the cattle in the neighborhood of Camperdown. One large stock-owner states that he has had men employed hv some time past iu going over his run overy morning to take tho hides off tho dead cattle ; and several large herds in the district are suffering severely from the disease. The Wellington Independent, Oth instant, says : —Another unfortunate accident occurred yesterday afternoon when the s.o. Gothenburg came up to the Queen's \\ harf, by which it sustained considerable damage. The steamer had some slight speed on, and as she did not answer her helm readily, alio came stem on, the concussion bdng most severe. Many peo pie who were standing on the wharf at the time took to their heels as soon as they saw that the crash was inevitable. The Gothenburg herself did not get off scatheless, nor nearly so well as tho s.s. ttago, as the stem and figure-head are injured, and the martingale carried away. The collision was about zO ieet from where the Glaj.!,o ran in j and had the shock been but a Lw feet on the north side, another cylinder mu/it have been smashed.