Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 301, 21 December 1868, Page 2

Therproject of establishing telegraphic communication between Europe and Australia, via Java and ludia, appears to be progressing. The Times tells us that Sydney is at present connected with Bowen, in Port Denison'; the Queensland Government are laying a line to Burke Town, in the Bay of Carpentaria, and intend to carry it to Cape York, close to the Torres Straits j portions of the Hoe for the intermediate distance are in course •of construction, viz., from Batavia through Sumatra to Singapore ; and it is proposed to establish a line overland to Moulmein via the Malay peninsula, Penang, and Malacca to Singapore, on the completion <of which East Java will be in connection with India. The vacancy in the Rectorship of the High School at Dunedin, created by the resignation of the Rev. F. Simmons, now Head Master of Nelson College, has been filled up. There were no fewer than 32 candidates, Mr J. G. S. Grant, of Dunedin, being among the number. The sue-.. cessful candidate is Mr Stuart Hawthorne, M.A, of Sydney University, who has been for five years Head Master of the Ipswich Grammar School, Queensland. The latest Otago papers report the discovery »of a new and rich goldfield in that province, supposed to contain five miles of payable ground, near the Pomahaka. It is said that some of the gold is fine, some scaly, and some nice shotty gold. The depth of ground varies frora 20 feet •to 40 feet. A little fine gold all through the dirt, from the grass roots. A missionary among the freedmen in Tennessee, after relating to some little coloured children the story of Ananias and Sapphira, asked them why God does not strike everybody dead who tells a lie, -when one of tbe: least in tharoom quickly answered, 'Because there wouldn't be left*