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Southland Times, Volume 1, Issue 4, 21 November 1862, Page 2

Through want of space we are obliged to hold over a number of articles in type, amongst them the report of the proceedings of the Town Board. We are given to understand that the staff ot our contemporary stood a fair chance of sustaining a serious loss by an accident that happened on Tuesday evening last. It appears that a gentleman from that office had attended a meeting held for the purpose of forming a Baptist Church in this place, and was so fully enlightened with the ideas that he heard of adult immersion, but so much in the dark with respect to the navigation of the streets of this town in the night time, as involuntary to give effect to what he ha d heard by falling into a water hole in Esk-street. The Town Board surely cannot be aware that a man-trap , in the shape of a well six feet deep, exists i a a public street, or they would surely fill it up rather than risk the censure of a coroner's jury. * i A gentleman who arrived yesterday ; from the Nokomai gives the following items of intelligence r— Supplies at present all come from the Dunstan. A slight rush took place about 12 miles from the head of ! the Nevis; a good number were doing well. At the nineteen mile rush there are numbers doing well, but a great scarcity of provisions prevails in eonsequence of the difficulties to be encountered in forwarding them, the roads being very bad. At Potter's gully , twenty miles below Dinteen mile rash, there were about 2,000 persons at the tim« our informant left, and.

judgingfrofri the iHimberswbioliwerehburly arriving from the Dunstan, which is only twenty miles (distant, there can be no less than 4,oCK),there at present; sAI the country (Bast of Eyre River Is auriferous. There aue a few scattered parties working at the Hokanui, fine gold and black sand being found. We beg to call the attention of our readers to the following circular, wliicb was forwarded to us a few days since : — At a meeting of the parishioners of the Church of England, held at Invercargill on Thursday, 6th instant, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of the Clergy Maintenance Fund, it appeared that a stipend of £250 per annum, and residence, had been guaranteed to the Clergyman by the Members of the Church of England residing in the Province, commencing from 16th November. During the twelve months just elapsed, it was found that the sums of £150 for stipend, and £18 for house rent, have alone been paid, leaving an aggregate sum of £132 in arrear. From the sums appearing on the I guaranteed subscription list, it appeared there would have been ample funds to have paid off the Clergyman's stipend and house rent in full had those engagements been faithfully kept. Under these circumstances, it was resolved — 1. That it is expedient that a belter organised system of collecting subscriptions for Church purposes be adopted. 2. That the Churchwardens 6e requested to forward a circular containing a statement of the condition of the Clergy Maintenance Fund to all Members of the Church of England residing in the Province, and earnestly requesting them to assist in paying off the arrears, and in i placing the fund on a more satisfactory footing for the future. 3. That owing to the very large accession of Members of the Church of England within the last few months, it is found absolutely necessary that the Church be enlarged proportionately to the increased demand for seats, and that those Members of the Church lately arrived among us, who had not the opportunity of sub- I scribing to the first building fund, be invited to contribute towards the expense of enlarging the Church. 4. That two vestrymen be appointed to j wait on each Member of the Chuech, resident in ; Invercargill, and that collectors be appointed in the country districts to receive subscriptions. — Nath. Chalmbbs, Churchwarden; Edw. D. Bxjtis, Churchwarden.