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Otago Daily Times, Issue 210, 11 August 1862, Page 4

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England .....:. . . May 26 By telegraph June 1 Mauritius ........ June 16 Ceylon (Colombo) June 17 China (Hong Kong) .......May 26 Calcutta June 9 Singapore June 17 Cane of Good H0pe.............. May 29 America— tfewYork... Hay 20 San Francisco May 16 'Australian Colonies— Melbourne July 29 Sydney ... July2B Queensland July 16 Adelaide ..' v..... July 28 Launceston ................ July 17 Hobart Town July 16 Perth July 5 New Zealand— Marlborough ............... June 20 Auckland July 31 ■ Wellington August 7 Hawke's Bay August 2 Taranaki'.". July 20 • Nelson July 12 Canterbury Augusts Wanganui. "... .....June 13 Invereargill July 26

A Devoted Wipe.—While the steamer Empress was on her wav to Cairo with the wounded from the battle-field at iMttsburg "Lauding, the wife of a missing soldier who way" in the fight at Pittsburg, gavo birth to a female infant. The womau accompanied, 0 or closely followed ter husband to Pittsburg. and on the second day of the fight, -while the conflict was raging around'her, was engaged in searching for him on the battle-field. While thus employed, she received a gunshot wound—a flesh wound only—in the breast. Failing at last to find her husband, in deso pair she took passage on the Empress. ; . Her child received the name of the steanief.— Anwrican.

HowaMiktku Dispute Eni>e».—lt will be remembered by our readers that a few weeks ago a. good deal of litigation arose out of a knotty question started about that time on the Mount Greenock Lead, namely, whether the extension of the lead towards Rocky Flat should be conducted on the "block" or " frontage"'system ;■'and' it will be further remembered that Mr. Warden Crespigny decided, on the ground of informality in the notice, against the frontage men. We must confess that we had very little confidence in" the hona fidex of the Mock men, because the major portion of.them had quite enough to do in the claims they held on the developed part of the lead. Having1 this fact in view, we are not surprised to find that the block men have actually abandoned the ground for which they had so heartily contended in the warden's court —even going so far as to threaten an-appeal to the Court of Alines did Mr. Crespigny'decide unfavorably to them. We record this circumstance as perhaps one of the mo-it scandalous things of the kind that ever came under our notice. Twenty-three men were prepared to take up.the ground under the frontage system, wnk without delay, and erect steam .machinery on itif required. To this the block party object; and obtaining a favorable verdict in the warden's court, they eject the frontage men from the ground, ami then coolly abandon it themselves. It, is a pity there is not some way to punish such gratuitous interference with the legitimate workers. -Whether the frontage party will again essay to occupy the ground remaina an open question.— Talbot Leader, July 25