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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 216, 11 September 1868, Page 2

The Otago, with the English Mail, via Suez, arrived at Port Chalmers at 11 a.m. to-day. The Venerable Archdeacon Butt was formally installed Archdeacon of Marlborough in the Provincial Hall, on Wednesday aftemoou, in the presence of the members of the Synod. This innovation on the usual practice ou such occasions is, we understand, attributable to the fact that the Archdeacon did not arrive in time for the service at Christ Church with which the Synod was opened on Tuesday last. The official house at Bishopdale, commenced by Bishop Hobhouse, and now completed by public subscription, was formally dedicated yesterday afternoon, in the presence of the clergy of the diocese and several members of the laity, whose attendance would probably have been more numerous had the weather proved less unpropitious. A short service, compiled for the purpose, was read on the occasion. The N.Z.S.N. Company have as yet received no tenders for the raising of the Taranaki. A diver has been sent down and examiued her. Up to that time the hatches had not burst open and hopes are entertained of raising her. The debate on Mr Fox's resolutions commenced on Wednesday evening last, and is likely to be prolonged for several days longer. Mr Curtis and Mr Reynolds have both spoken in favor of the resolutions, and Mr Stafford replied iv a powerful and effective speech. It is stated that the Ministry couut ou a majority 6f two.

Au individual named O'Donnell was on Tuesday last fined £50, at the Eesideut Magistrate's Court, Westport, for bavins: signed au order on MrO'Loughliu for £2, which was unstamped. The defendant admitted the charge, but pleaded ignorance of* tbe provisions of the Act, and was fined in the full penalty, to be levied by distress. The Marlborough Express devotes a leading article to the new remedy for diphtheria by means of sulphurous acid, which has, it appears, been employed duriDg the past week in Blenheim, by Dr. Home, with marked success, in a house in which four fatal cases had already occurred. The pure sulphurous acid is paiuted over the throat, and from five to thirty drops given internally in water every three or four hours, according to the age of the patient, sulphur fumigation being at the same time used in the I sick room. It must be borne in mind, in order to avoid mistakes between sulphuric acid and sulphurous acid, that the former is a pungent corrosive poison, while the other is nearly harmless. The following are the names of those members of the House of Representatives who have formed themselves together under Mr Fox's leadership, and are known as the Constitutional party. Their numbers, as we have already stated, are likely to be still further augmented on the occasioa of the impending division by the accession of one at least of the Nelson members, and in all probability, of others: — Wellington members: Messrs Fox, Featherston, Borlase, Brandon, H. S. Harrison (Wanganui), and W. W. Taylor. Auckland members: Messrs Dignan, Graham, Heaphy, V.C., O'Rorke, T. Macfarlane, and Williamson. Canterbury members: Messrs Macfarlane, Rolleston, Stevens, Studholme, Taucred, and Travers. Otago members: Messrs Burns, Cargill, Main, Macandrew, Reynolds, and Yogel. Southland members: Messrs Bell and Wood. Nelson members: Messrs Baigent, Collins, and Parker. We understand that a strong probability exists that the present obnoxious postal charges upon newspapers will be removed, so far as newspaper exchauges are concerned between the various journals of the colony. Indeed it is stated that no opposition is likely to be offered to the introduction of a measure abolishing the present postal obstructions. Mr Stafford has frequently complained of newspapers as beiug local and narrow in their treatment of public measures, but he never seems to reflect that his imposition of the present postal rates, to say nothing of other objections to them, is oue means of perpetuating the evils' of which he complains. The Otago Daily Times says: — The directors of the Chamber of Commerce caused to be forwarded to the PostmasterGeneral a copy of a resolution recently adopted by them, as to the necessity for keeping up mail communication with England by the Suez route. We understand that a reply has been received by the Secretary to the Chamber, to the effect that the financial condition of the colony renders it impossible to continue to subsidise a steamer to bring to New Zealand letters by the Suez mail; but that mails for that route will continue to be sent and to be received, by unsubsidised steamers. The brave conduct of a Catholic priest at the storming of Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, is thus recorded by the VTangauui Times : — ' Through the rapid river, waist deep along the weary forest track, across omi-nous-looking clearings, where at any moment a volley from an ambush could have swept our ranks, Father Roland marched cheerfully and manfully, ever ready with a kind word, a playful senteace to auy man who passed him. And when at last iv the clearings of Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu the storm of bullets burst upon us he did not wait in the rear for men being brought to him, but ran with the rest of us forward against the enemy's position. So soon as any man dropped, he was by his side j he did not ask 'are you Catholic or Protestant,' but kneeling prayed for his ' last words.' Thrice noble conduct, in a century of utilitarian tendencies. The Evening Post, whilst noticing the prevalence of diphtheria in Australia, takes occasion to state that several cases of this terrible disease have broken out in Nelson. We are at a loss to conceive how our contemporary has made this discovery, which happens to be perfectly groundless, as we have the best medical authority lor stating that not a single case of diphtheria has made its appearance in Nelson.

The shipping reports forwarded by telegraph, and published at the telegraph offices throughout New Zealand, are estimated to have cos?, during the year, £2608, at the ordinary rate of charge to the public. According to the report of Mr De Sauty, the Government electrician, it appears that the electoral condition of the Cook Straits submariue cable is not so satisfactory as he could wish. The No. 2 wire, which has never been in such perfect condition as the other two, is vow failing considerably in insulation. It has, therefore, been disconnected, and has not been used since November last, with a view to its preservation. The Hokitika papers says that whitebait is becoming more plentiful, and is offered for sale in the streets at a very reasonable price. Cooked in a variety of ways, it forms a delicious relish at the breakfast or tea table. The late earthquake wave which broke upon the shores of New Zealend is supposed to be connected with a submarine eruption which has, for some time, been going on in the South Pacific. In November last it was known that a submarine volcano had burst out in the South Pacific, at a point 12,000 geographical miles from New Zealand, and 1800 from Australia, between two of the most easterly islands of the Samoa or Navigator's Group, an archipelago where there had beeu no tradition of an eruption within the memory of man. The outburst was preceded by numerous shocks of earthquakes. Jets of mud and dense columns of volcanic sand and stones, rising 2000 feet, and the fearful crash of masses of rock hurled upwards and comiug in collision with others, which were falling, attested the great volume of ejected matter, which accumulated in the bed of the ocean, although there was no permanent profusion ol a new volcano above its level. The Rose of Australia, a vessel sailing from Newcastle to Sau Francisco, experienced a severe shock of earthquake in that neighborhood in June last. The Imperial Governmentliavearranged with the Government of New South Wales to send out to that colony .a shipment of bronze coin, of the nominal value of £10,000. This coin will be issued to the public at its nominal value — that is to say two hundred and forty pennies for the pound sterling, and will be conveyed by the Deputy-Master of the Mint to any part of the colony, when required, free of cost to the purchaser. Captain DuCane, who has been appointed to succeed Colonel Gore Brown as Governor of Tasmania, was one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty, and represented North Essex for a considerable period.