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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 50, 1 May 1863, Page 2

In consequence of the arrival df the English news, which we received at a late hour last night from our Dunedin ag*nt, we are compelled to hold over several articles of local interest, — amongst others the .report of the proceedings of the Town Board.

The English mail lias not yet reached Tnvercargill. It may be expected to-morrow.

It will be seen from our special correspondent's report of the proceedings in the Resident Magistrate's Court m Queenstown, that Thatcher, the singer, has been fined 20s and costs for having been too funny at the expense of Mr Jackson, the Southland ag errt.

"Up to the time of going to press our usual report from Bluff Harbor had not reached us.

The Otago Daily Times of the 27th inst. says : — il Considerable interest was felt in the Turacff which was prevalent on Saturday evening that the corpse of a man had heen washed ashore on the Ocean Beach during the forenoon. It proved too true that the remains of the man had been th own ashore by the waves, although not at the point indicated. About nine o'clock on Saturday morning a man named Tfcobert Graham, who was on the beadi of Peninsula Bay, opposite Green Island, saw a body lying near a rock, and he at once came into town and informed the police. Sergeant Beaven, of the mounted constabulary, was sent to the spot, and he found that to get to the beach, he had to leave his horse and to make his way through Che bush for two miles. He was accompanied by Thomas Kennedy, who was working on the road. They soon discovered the remains high and dry under a large rock, where they had been left by the tide. The head and the right leg were gone, the intestines were protruding through a great opening on the right side, and the whole was in a dreadfully decomposed state. Beavan sent Kennedy to a farmhouse near, where he procured a couple of sacks, ia which, by means of flax, the remains were sewn, and were then carried some distance to the house of Mr Howden. There a dray was procured, and in it the remains were conveyed to the Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Caversham, in an out-house of which they now lie awaiting an inquest. The remains have not been nspected by a Burgeon, nor will toe wrapping

be removed until the inquest, so that no opiuion'can be ventured as to the probable length of time since the? tmfortanate fellow met his death, or as to the agency by which the head and the leg were severed. There is not a particle of clothing to aid in identification; but there is just a possibility that a leathern belt which still encircles the waist of the mutilated corpse may afford some clue."

The Titania, with nearly 100 passengers, arrived yesterday afternoon, and anchored in the Pool about seven miles from the jetty The mails and some of the passengers were forwarded by boat to Invercargill. She was about 48 hoOrsf on her passage down. Met the Omeo entering Otago Heads, and passed the Gothenburg aad William Miskin subsequently.

' In an extaordinary issued from the Otago Daily Times office on Tuesday, it is stated that w the s.B. City of Hobart arrived at Port Chalmers at 6 a.m. that day. She left Melbourne on the 21-st, and reports the departure of the Omeo with the mail on the previous day, after several days* detention at Port Phillip Heads. Heavy easterly weather was experienced throughout the passage, and it is fully expected that the Aldinga would be in time'fGr the English mail,"

The miners at Svritzer's appear to be getting dissatisfied with the arrangements of the •Otago Government, if the following from ■the Daily Times is correct : — " We observe from our Lake correspondent that the miners at Switzei's diggings are reported to be very dissatisfied at the escort not calling in there for their gold, and that they have even gone the length of inviting the Sonttiland escort to take charge of it."