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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 62, 12 June 1863, Page 2

A scab case of more than usual interest — it being the first one which has been defended in this Province —was tried before the Resident Magistrate on Wednesday. We regret that pressure on our space compels us to hold over our report until next issue. A disease very much resembling pleuropneumonia, has broken out amongst horses in parts of this province. "We have heard of some very valuable animals having already died from it, and a large number are infected. The inhabitants of Hiveiton do not seem inclined to allow vessels to be " lost" in their harbour without making some inquiry into the circumstances attending them. A meeting -was held there on Tuesday last, -which was attended by the principal men in the town, and the following document has been forwarded to His Honor the Superintendent : — " Riverton, 9th June, 18G3. To His Honor the Superintendent of Southland, Invercargill. Sir, — Ihavethehonor toinformyou that .a meeting was held this day at Basstian's Hotel, Riverton, to c<ilt your attention to the wreck of the schooner Pearl in this harbor, at which the following gentlemen were piescnt, viz.:---Messrs. P. L.Francis, I). Munro, W. D. Basstian, A. Bonar, James Lunnan, Hy. Corner, Captain Southern (Hector's Expedition), Captain Falconer, Dr. Martin. Dr. Densham, Thos. C. Low, Alex. Ogg, A. Nicholas, A Houston, and a few others. It was proposed by Mr Francis, seconded by Mr Monro, and carried unanimously — ' That the Government be requested to appoint a Board of Inquirj* upon the wieck of the schooner Pearl in this Harbor, as the circumstance*! of her loss were such as to create little doubt of gross mismanagement or incapacity on the part of those in charge of (he vessel at the time of p.nd subsequent to the accident.' I have therefore, respectfully to request that your Honor will cause such inquiry to bo insti tuted at once., as many of the principal witnesses purpose leaving here in a clay or two. I have the hen or to rema ; n, on behalf of the meeting, your obedient servant, Ai.frkd Nicholas. Chairman." The enptain of the Pearl has also forwarded the following letter to his Honoi :— ;1 Hivcrton, Bth June, 1803. To his Honor the Superintendent. Sir,— The schooner Poarl. of Melbourne, under my command hnvinsr unfortunately stranded in the Port of fliverton, having a pilot on board at the time. I beg to solicit an inquiry may be hold into the circumstances of her loss. Trusting your Honor will perceive the"ncce«sity of such an investigation, both for my sake and that of others concerned, I subscribe myself your Honor's obedient servant, Augustus Savers Master." B~ a proclamation in tho Victi iii G<vc nmrnt Gazrt.tr, of the 29th May, a portion of Gipps Land is declared " clean" Tinder the Pleiuo-pneumonia Act. The boundaries are described as follows : — ''Commencing at a point on (he sei coast, on the south side of L;>ke Reoves, and bearing north-westerly to the south-east angle of Lake Wellington, near Sencombe township ; thence bounded on the north hy the south side of Lake Wellington, hearing westerly to the junction of Lake Welling'on and La Trobe River ; thence bounded on the north-east by the La Trobe ■River, bearing westerly to the junction of the La Trobe and M'Alister Rivers; thence bounded on the north-east by the M'Alister River, bearing north-wester!}', and by a line bearing north-westerly to a mountain range between Mount B tiller and Jamieson township ; thence bearing south-westerly along the summit of said range to the northern boundary of the county of Evelyn ; thence bounded on the west by the county of Evelyn, and bearing south-easlerly and westerly to j the junction of the counties of Evelyn and ! Morning,ton ; thence bounded on the west by the county of Mornington, bearing southerly to the sea coast ; thence bounded by the seacoast and Corner Inlet, bearing south-east-erly, northerly, and north-easterly, to the point of commencement." The Melbourne papers state that Lady Barkly is about to form a committee of ladies, for the purpose of organising a subscription to present the Princess of Wales with a bridal gift from the ladies of Victoria. The following interesting document, being the copy of an address from a number of Victorian aborigines to the Governor, on the occasion of the marriage of the Prince of Wales, we republish for general information •_« Koolinge Bagarook Tranbulk Wawoorong bar Boonoorong bar Tara-Waiagal Wondunan Parpanick Bullito Victoria. Murrumbeek bar \mgo-koolin Wongonnon Wondunun Koongu marraineek bondup, Parparick bullito, suduk woodulul yarite. Umonnara, Umonnara, koyon, bar Wyring, bar Netbotandowring hommergeek narlumby. Murruvnbaarnr Nargou, Mum ganbony, Murrumbianner koonee-Brenbun, Koongee Marnameek uge — koolln wondunun — unaarko bondtip Kargiek bar Papinic Bullito Victoria. Koolingec Bagarook nerlingo William bar Miam Wantagte paper wa Governor koongee marnameck munniger torn bean neirlin unngo. Piabor.ing fandovring uge. Nogcemee."

The following return shows tho state of H.M. Gaol for the -week ending llth June : — For trial before Supreme Court, 5 ; for trial before the magistrates, 1 ; sentenced to hard labor, 18 ; lunatic, 1. Total } 25. Discharged, 3 ; admitted, 2. The Otago Daily Times, says that Cobb'S Taieri coach was upset on Friday evening, at East Taieri, and several persons injured. There was a full complement of passengers, including several gentlemen who had been Attending the poll for representatives of the district in the Provincial Council, at East Taieri. The coach was upset opposite Todds store, soon after starting; and it was considerably smashed, and one of the horses was much hurt. When the injuries to the passengers came to be ascertained, it was found that Mr Howorth had a shoulder dislocated that Mr T. Barnes was rather serious y> bruised and cut, and that other passengers had suffered in a less degree. It is reallj- astonishing how some men allow their imaginations to " stretch " at times. A correspondent of the Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser, writing under date May 23, gives the following description of New Zealand and the goldfields : — "What a had thing it is, Sir, to have a good memory. Now this is exactly my case with respect to New Zealand. Do you know I "was a denizen of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, from March to August, 1862 ? Yes, and I s.aw enough of it, I can tell you. Having been there during the intervening months, I had abundant opportunity of witnessing the state of affairs. When I first landed on the old jetty, my astonishment was excited by the apparently idle multitudes who thronged the principal streets; the corner of Princes and Stafford streets, in particular, were always blocked by an almost impenetrable phalanx of disappointed and mortified miners. Farley's Arcade, running from High-street across to Macclaggan-street, was densely crowded, especially in the evenings ; the bars and tap-rooms of all the local hostelries were crammed with a miscellaneoics public. I resided at Charley William's opposite to Cnrgill and Co.'s store. This was a digger's house — so that 1 had plenty of opportunity of conversing with miners ; some of them very old, and dexterous adepts too. Well, Sir, the result of my enquiries was this: that the Hi hi ay Diggings, Timbrell's Gully, Waitahuna, Tuapeka, and other places were all shicers ; that there had been same good Jground worked in former days, but the auriferous deposits were all exhausted. At length, the 12th clay of August came, and all Dunedin was galvanised by the rumor that Hartley and Reilly had returned from the Dunstan with 87lbs. weight of crude virgin gold ! En route to the Dunstan, hundreds perished in the snow-capped mountains of the territory ; men returned to the town half famished, and wholly fatigued; discomforted by the perilous peaks, which in every direction arrested the progress of thepioneer And yet the attractions of gold emboldened some of the more hardy and resolute to make the attempt, and they who went up towards the latter end of last year, have, in a few isolated instances, done remarkably well." Such is the statement of an individual who, we presume, came to New Zealand to dig, but who confined his " prospecting 1 ' researches to the " Society's " ground, between the end of the old jetty and the corner of Stafford- street. It would be as well, however, if men, when publishing their experience in the columns of a newspaper, would keep within hail of the truth. According to the Du-edin papers, a "Chow-chow" has at last found his way to Dunedin. These pests of the colonies may now be expected here in droves ; but John Chinaman will not find himself so much l< at home" in this part of the world as in Victoria or New South Wales. Some of the friends of these interesting bipeds should warn thorn of the risk they run in rushing to the New Zealand diggings, as the banks of the livers here are much steeper, and the current much stronger, than that of the BuckUind.