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North Otago Times, Volume II, Issue 39, 17 November 1864, Page 2

Our Dunedin correspondent's letter, together with other articles, are held over for want of space.

Wo are informed by Captain Turnbull, of the e.s, Greelong, which reached Oauiaiu yesteiday evening, that the City of Hobart, from Melbourne, anived at tho Heads just us the Qeelong left. It ia not known whether she carries tho English mail, but it is thought highly probable.

The special reporter of the " Daily Times," in a letter to that paper on the l!>th mat., makes tho following correction of a typogiaphioal en or in the repoit of the dinner hero on Thursday laat: —" The good folks of Oamaru seeming to believe moro in doing than talking" —not DM&KING !! I

Wo are informed that Mr "Wright bought tho winning horeo in the Selling Stakes on tho iifch iust. It'was knocked, clown to him v by Mr Driver ai £24. Tho same parfcy also bought ono s of the prize cows at tho Agricultural Show.

" After the Show on Thursday last, pursuant .to advertisement, Messrs Driver, Maclean and Co., as instructed by Mr M.iR. Miller, held a sale of a quantity of stock, when the following were disposed of:~40 cows, at £12 to £17 a head j 100 head of store cattle, at £9 to £910s, per _head; - and 400 merino ewes, at £3 each, Mr Hodgkinson's mob of fat cattle were not offered at this place; but passed on to the Dunedin market j they were in prime condition and one of the finest lots that baa been seen here for some time.

f We learu that the improvement of the communication up the Waitaki, by bridging the Whare Kuri, will be pioceeded with without d< j lay, thus acceding to the request of the public meeting that it should, if possible be made immediately available. We believe that the same may bo said of the main north road, including Severn street j and Aye hope soon to hear that Mr Balfour has boon able to complete his plaus, and that the Jetty will also be at no distant period. The gi uits in supply recently passed aio not only voted, but aie to be expended without delay. ✓ The attention of contributors from this town and district to the forthcoming Exhibition, is called to the advertisement in our columns requiring them to furnish to tho district) secretary without delay a full desciiptton of the ai tides to be exhibited, and the pxact amount of ground or wall space which they will occupy. It is now announced that the Exhibition will almost certainly be opened on Monday, 2nd January, and it is expected that the building will be ready to receive goods on Fiiday first (to-monow). We may also notice that a fine photograph of the Exhibition building, forwarded by the Commissioners, is to be seen in the window of Messis Pinkeiton and Co.'s shop.

At the Agricultural Society's dinner on Thuisday evening, Mr Gleeson, M.P.C., staled that ho had lead m tho OAJfAKU Times that "the Town Board had refused to accept the £4000 loan from tho Government." What really did appear in this paper on the subject was as follows :-•'* The following item was befoie the Provincial Council on Monday last in Committee of Supply, and we legrot to say, negatived on a division : ' Oamaru Town Board, £4000.'" How Mr Gleeson could have made such a ridiculous mistake, posses our understanding ; and wo are irresistibly reminded of Coleridge's " four classes of readeis," fiom which we make the following extract: "Tho third lesenibles a sponge, which returns what it has absorbed, only a little dht'ior."

An accident that might have been attended with seiious consequences happened at the exhibition of stock on rhiusday, to a horseman pieseut. He was just riding ac the back of the shed, when he lost Ins seat and fell to tho ground, one foob remaining in the stirrup. The horse, which was none of the quietest, was manifestly excited by tho efforts made by the piostrate man to release his foot, and would have staited off, and doubtless killed or maimed him, had not a bystander seized the bridle just in the nick of time, and enabled the man to escape from his perilous position.

A splendid stock of the " Giant (cmnsouj Biompton,' was sent by Mr J. Lemon to the Lidies , Bazaar, on Tlmi&day la?t. It was from seed laised by him at Goodwood, seven years ago; tho centre pyiamid of flowers measuies fifteen inches in height. Mr Locke exhibited two fine stocks at the Agricultui.il Show, gi own fiom the .same seed. These flowers nclomed the dinner table on Thuisday evoning, and are specimens nob easily sui passed for mzo and beauty.

Tho B.vll and Supper intended to havo been held at tho Noithem Hotel, on JFiiday last, came off on Monday evening, and was tolerably will attended The weathor, liowim ci, on Monday, as on Friday, was most uupropitiom, and it certaiuly was not so successful as it •would havo been under moie favoiablo chcumstances.

It is cuiiently repented that Mes&is Royse, Mudie, and Co avo about to establish a bianch house heie, and that they have enteied on terms with Mi 11. JKumce, Tyne street, for a lease of hit. pieuuses.

The new building about to be erected by the Bank of Kew Zealand in Tyno stieet, has been contiacted for by Mr Grenfell, of this town. The aichitects aie Messis. Mason and Clayton, Dunedin. It is to be a handsome and commodious two-storey building iv the Italian style, combining offices with manager's house, built entiiely of the stone of the district, and is contracted to be finished by the Ist of Maich next.

Mr S. E. R. Jones, who now holds the Provincial Sale Yards, at Dunedin, a highly spuited and enteipihing man of business, held a sale of hoises heie on Thursday afternoon, which went off veiy sntisfactoiily, being the fiist of an intended series at Oamaru.

The Now Zealand census, 18C4, is to bo taken next month, and J. Uislop, Esq., has been appointed census enumerator fov this Province The return papers a;e nowbeing left at oach dwelling by the diffeieut sub-enume-rators, and will be called for eailv in December. As the information proposed to be collected is very valuable as showing the progress of the colony in population, in tho cultivation of land, in sheep and cattle stock, &c., it is hoped that every house holder will be eaieful to fill up coirectly the schedule left at Ins dwelling. The following are tho snb-enumeiators in this quaiter : -

Oamaru and Otopopo : SeigoaDt Bullen; ILimpdeu and Moeraki: Sergeant O'Brien.

Messrs Gillies and Street report the sale by auction on Tuesday, at tlieir rooms, of that well-known estate Bredalbane, West Taieri, 135 acres, foi £800 cash. Mr 'lhos. Young was the purchaser, and fiom the number of those attending, and the spirited bidding, it seems evident that there is a cousideiable demand for good fai ms of limited extent.

The new biidge at Wailcouaiti was opened on Monday with due cetoniony. The contractor, Mr James JBiuce, of this place, has been veiy successful in erecting a stiongand substantial wooden stiucturo, which will be an immense lmpiovemeut to the communication along .that line of load ; and the delay in opening it—so nuvh complained of—has not been occasioned by any fault of his^

The Provincial Council was prmogued on the 12th inst. until Wednosday, sth April, 1863; we will repiint the Superintendent's addies<s in our next. Before the end of the session tho Supeiintendent sent the Council a messnge on the subject of pastoial lauds, proposing that tin co millions of acies should be reseived, and formed into a, Pi ovinoial estato, to be let on lease, for the purpose of pioducing a permauent of Piovincial revenue. k Thia important document we will jjublish next week. ? Wβ have been informed of tho sale of the Wanaka East station, with 5000 sheep and 200 lambs, by Messrs Dalgety, llattray and Co., for £II,OJO.

By a pioclamation in the Gazette of 9th insfc., the Supeiiutendent has opened the poits to tho impoilation of cattle from for the purpose of dcci easing the price of meat m Otago. They aie to be admitted under careful regulations, and will not be permitted to enter uninfected districts. There are iiimors already of Southland infected cattle having been turned back; and tho experiment appears a very hazardous one.

Tho "Daily Times" of 12th iusfc, repoita that some excitement has been created in Dunedm by gold being found in considerable quantity in a small stream running into tho Sliver Stream immediately above the crossing of the "West Taieri road ford. Tho grouud is said to be highly promising.

The Gazette of the 9fch iusfc. gives notice that a sitting of the Supreme Court for civil and criminal cases, will be held at the Court house, Dunodin, on Thursday, Ist December neit, at 10 o'clock.

A, very oxtcnuivo fire took place at tho Old Wharf, Hoftarfc 'Jovvnj on &)fli ulfc., which resulted in tho destruction of tiireS largo stores, beveral others being

injurod.