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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 131, 5 June 1868, Page 2

The Wellington correspondent of the Xondon Times writes thus : — Sir George •Grey's star has not proved false to him. He is a most fortunate man. Something invariably turns up at the right moment, and gets him out of his difficulties. His unexpected stay will give him the opportunity of leaving New Zealand when it is perfectly undisturbed. He came to quiet the colony at a time when almost the whole native population was in a state of Active rebellion, and there are indications that he will leave it with the best understanding existing between the races. Ifc is not enough to say that native affairs continue quiet : there is a firm conviction fast growing in the mind of those tribes who have held themselves sullenly aloof that the desire of the colonists is for peace. By a new arrangement of American steamboats, passengers from the colonies can go to New York or San Francisco seven times a month from Panama and Colon. The Hawkes Bay Herald states that the Governor and Lady Bowen may be expected in Napier during the present week, and that their stay wili probably extend over two or three days. A telegram published in the Auckland papers says that a parcel of New Zealand flax sold at Melbourne, on the 18th ult., realised £30 per toa. A Melbourne telegram states that private advices froni London mention the suspension of the firm of Batty & Co., the well-known oilmen of Finsbury Pavement. Professor Hal ford's analysationof Shires so-called antidote for snake poison, has so thoroughly undermined confidence in its efficacy, that oo attempt is likely to be made to renew the snake exhibitions. The trial of Shires, charged with the manslaughter of the iaie Mr Drummond, is postponed till the next sessions.