LATER NEWS FROM SYDNEY AND THE NORTHERN PROVINCES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 281, 13 November 1862, Page 5

LATER NEWS FROM SYDNEY AND THE NORTHERN PROVINCES.

By the arrival of the Rangatira we have later news I from Sydney and the Northern Provinces of New Zealand. Owing to the letters not being delivered last night we are not in possession of our ordinary correspondence, neither have we complete fi!es of newspapers, but from such as have come to hand we cull the following items of intelligence. WELLINGTON. Discovery of Gold —Twice during the present week, Mr Arthur Knowles has found specimens of gold in his garden, at Wade's Town, foot of the Tinakori Range. As the weather is now becomisig- fine and settled, we hops that the eyes of the settlers will be kept wide open, with the view to the discovery of what becomes more and more a "precious metal."— Independent, Nov. 8.

Lancashire Relief Fund.—The performance at the Lyceum theatre in aid of the Lancashire Relief Fund came oft* pursuant to notice, but the audience was an indifferent^oue, and the like way ho said of the acting. Miss Etta was too young-for fn°o's wife, while Othello's was dispensed with altogether. The farce of "My Dncle Abroad" was well sustained, and Mr Smith's dancing, as usual, was deservedly appreciated.— Advertiser, Nov. 8. Daring Attempt.—An attempt was made by two soldiers on Monday night to raise the ibundafiou stone of the New Supreme Court -House, with the view of stealing the money that had been deposited there when the siciie was laid by His Excellency the Governor. The men were taken into custody by the police.— Spectator, November 5. Tip* Distress in Lancashire,—We understand that a meeting of the Odd Fellows resident in Wellington w;:s. held on Tuesday Evening at their HalJ, which was wftli attended. Mr Bell, the Grand Master of the district, occupied the chair. Some discussion took place in the first instance relative to the best mode to be adopter! to meet the object of the me* tiuir. which wa* to raise a sum for the Lancashire Ivclk-f Fund Ii; was at lenglh decided .that every lodge in the district should beat once summoned, iv order to fui-thar consider the subject; and, ia the meantime, a cominittte was appoint* d tc superintend arrangements for a public erite<tai;mient in aid of the oi jeefc, and a pledjw was unanimously aiven that the o'-ject should have the support of '-'one and all." The manner in which the society of Odd Fellows lias <:ome forward in i\<\< instance reflects threat cieuit upon the Order, and if other " clubs '•' of higher, but less praiseworthy pretensions, would "do.likewise," t»e amount raised iv aid of the disrressel operatives of Lancashire would be worthy of Wellington. ■ Advertiser. Nov. G.

Cattlk Tkade and Cattltj: Stealing.—Since I last wrote several other liivge mobs of-re/Mse—flatter-ingly designated "store"—cattle have buen driven from this district to Wellington for s>hipm«nt to the Boiuh._ It has been estimated that LIO,OOO has been paid lor stock within the last twelve mouth?, the greater portion of which would have been worthless, if nol. positively inisehievious, had not the demand for store cattle being so brisk during the interval. Without the aid of the Government, therefore, and in spite of the Government and the squatter laws of their instituting, an opportunity has been afforded, which the settlers have availed themselves of to effect very considerable improvements in the district—indications of which are visible in every direction. Cattle stealing by the natives in the immediate vicinity of Greytown, from the native lands which once 'constituted a part of the suburban land of that township, and which wes actually surveyed and laid off in 40 acre sections—has commenced, and been prosecuted with a vigour only equalled by the more legitimate cattle trade conducted by the settlers. Some impediments have been thrown in the way which bid fair to be effectual, -but this has nob been the consequence of the interposition of the Government, or to the intervention of the laws of the Province, but to the natives' infringements of the taws of nature, which declare that the consumption. of beef by men too lazy to work and to live cleanly, has a limit, and large quantities of unmixed animal food, unaccompanied bj out-door exercise, and in the fetid atmosphere of a Maori whare, will create disease, and the consequence is that many of the Maori beef eaters are at this present moment suffering from a breach of the physical laws, if those of the colony are in abeyance. — Wairarapa Correspondent of Wellington Advertiser.