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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 17, 16 December 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

New Miucing Machine. — At the Agricultural* Hall, Islington, tliore is bein^ exbiliited a new patent contrivance for milking cows. It, p;in be packed in the space of a thimble, and affixed to any cow. "With the. help of tliis contrivance gentlemen keeping Alderney 01 Brittany cows will not require a milker. In consequence of the first-rate prospects recently obtained, the directors of the Adelaide Mining Company, S.A., have written to Melbourne for machinery thor .uglily to develop ihe resource? of the mine.

THE PANAMA. ROUTIi TO AUST KALI A. ' (From the Liverpool Alhidu.) The correspondence relating to the proposed establishment of a mail service between KnglanrJ and the Australian colonies via Panaim. since. 1557, which was moved for by Sir Stafford Northcote, has just, beon printed. It commences with a letter addressed to Sir Rowland Hill, in IBiB, by Mr Day, on the part of the pronoters of a line of steamers intended to run i>t;twccri Australia, New Zealand, Pm-aimi, find British Columbia, and to be connected . with this country by another line between Naw Buy and.Queenstown. The Government had, at that time, brought under the notice of the Postmaster-General a proposal for a monthly service via Sue:-;, and another da Panama ; but I, or I Colchester was of opinion that the tatter should be. dcfeiTo.'l. ''so ass to admit of a full consideration of the several arrangements connected therewith." This opinion was based on a minute prepared by Sir UoWland Hill, in which all the objections to the Panama route, and all tin- advantages of the Sujz line, are fully set forth. It was stated that the sea-postage of all correspondence with Australia and New Zealand fell very far short of the cost of the existing line; that the NeWZcnhnnl correspondence was (5 per cent, of the whole and that of New South Wales but 2-> per cent., while the- 1 Victorian correspondence formed -5S per rent.; that Melbourne is nearer l>y i "00 miles mnl Sydney by f»'»0. miles, l>y the Suez th.-m by the Panama route ; that the latter admits of no Mich acceleration of mails as the former does through I' ranee ; that ihe Sucr. route may b(> made to take in either Ceylon or Mauritius, while no f,uc,h- facilities are afforded by the Paii;un:i ictite, that letters sent via Panama, oAvin-r to the heavy chutes of the railway company and the Uoivniment of New Urfiuada. cost as much as t!io>o went throuj; Vi-auce-p.Md J'\'yp'. : and, finally, that at both ends of the Suez joute the electric tele>>;::ip!i was being rapidly extended, while -there were no such facilities by the Panama route, in April, 1i1.V.1, live mouths aCt-.T the correspondence just ret'erreil t->, Sir S'-.c">id Wuri.iicote : 'for v aide it to the Post tJllico h Tre;\*nry minute, in which it was staled th.-it, when the G )vcm in fill were :je^.i>tir.; ir.;.;- for the Suez line, expectations '.vere held on*, that steps would be taken to c.-Mb.'Mi a seec;i.l scrvic, \ i-i P.ma-na, a>: .-oon »•* p;r;;,rr arrangements could be m-ide, and that a distinct i ltimation to this eil'ei t was in the mitU'e, cullins for tenders. then, Mr Merewethev, <-'ieik t<> the Executive Council ol' New So-iih \V;.!es, ha.i been deputed to act as the a^viii of thai colony in any arraiiuvuHMit lor cai rv i iiij* out the project, an-l had l;ecn in coninninioation with the. Treasury. New South Wales hid nppropnat.-.l £")'). (K)i) a yen. for len yi'ai's, for this service, .".nd Mr Merewelher had no dmiiit tlin ilu- o!o:iy V'Oukl be prepared to a>.-u;iu: ih.- ;<•-,.. .:i---sibilitv of one-half th ■• cost oi' the s:-i-\ ire. nrcvidctl it- could be ac(*onr,''.ished uithin reasouahle limits, uii'lerlakin-.v al ;<> lia> necessary intercolonial arrange menu. One obstacle which inie; Tered wiih the adoption of this line, u-. is the iicavy char/-.' for nriils made by th- Nov.- (-J-ranadian Cii)vci-iiinc:it. in addi ion to tiu- payment require.! by the rjil'.vay ro:i-p-'.i*_v lor the ■tctual or, veynnco ; and 'o \\\\<. s > ■ 1 c !he i-'.tteirion of Lord M-ilme.sbury w;is il'.en directed. J»'it, considering t:ic v:i*-t i:n-|>oi-tane? to t!:o A u^f ra iian colDni-'s o! a e(. inmuni :a: »)i; wkwh, ;:!»;:>:;.:';.!■ cthei advai.ta^ s, wo'ild r; ;1". u 1 . 1 t ; 1 1 ■ - : i t*. i c ■ iiri• ■-s of interentiise with America l'ro:n whi:-'. tlu'V woic compara' i\\:!y cxcliiil'-M, amf i;i vi< V 7 ii lin: •. '-ry li'icrnJ iw.iur.c I.'1 .' iv wliich N\-w Sn^t-h Wa'e--hill come forward iv support of :/r---sch-'iii tin; (Jovcrnn ent thought tlsey cuuht no loji»cr to delay inviting tenderlor the scrvi-je. Tile ell for tenders wjS accordingly made, wi;l'. what result ;~ known. In November last Sir llvnrv !?a)k'v f irwr.nled to the Colonial O;.iee a U-tier'frrni -Mr Wanl. Postma-f er-'. :env:;>! of N'l.-w 7'e-i';r.\'l, to t!iu c'liie" s-.-vi ■■t.-n-y ;it Melbourne, ;mnnui>i:i-.;; that ti'.e l."^:-.':i---ture til' .Now Xe;!.!ip.;i ha 1 uriiited l.'"J, ( -i"i' a year, fur five ye.ir-. \'<>v a j'i-iii! rrv, v- ;- ri.a Panama, and a r.-itn"e therco;i I:/ Mr Jlv.-in^, aut::j;init-tic tv tie .■■cli"!r.'\ This was follnv/ed, in M'U'r.h las', by tlu 1 arrival of Mr \ v -ard, nee ■nip.niieu In .Mr Hamilton, n^cnt. for Slw Seuth Wai--, w!m Ki-vt'rally submitted to the Chanccllnr of (lie Kxche<jiiur btatcn-.cMt:-. in ir-or i:f the Pairtma route. Their ul.jvct. ai>pe;us to have been to induce the Imperial Government to assist/ in esta!) ;i>hi n^r a monthly mail to New Zealand and Au^tral'iH. via Panama, hy ])-yinir I;:ilf the cost c;f the Pacific service, and making no c.liiim on tlie colonie.-. f'M" I:>.' i-«-.:i---\cyai)ce!/et%V(.'en Si.iuliianiploi'i ,111.1 CI"V lo'.:. Tiie lv-ult of their inftw views wifh Mr Uli-i Wtone and Lord Stanley, of Alderley. does m;t a|ipcar, but the. latter suliscqueiitly wroru to th<: 'J'rcasury, ve|ieatin;; the arguments used \>y Sir Kowlaivl Hill, in ]>')6, and al.lin^ that, when the railivay between Paris and Ancuna,ov Bnndi^i, icoinpleled, ihe dirrVrence in fa v out r.[ lib* Suez vnuti' (slir.ulii that v.-iilw.-iv lie avail.vl of) will be even gvi'iiter tlian at pn^nt, and will ho fnv.lier an^l very coii.-idcritliiy au^menietJ shiujhl (he railway be ivkhli" thuiu^li the valley of the Iviphriitey. The corresj-.o iileiu-c cbsed with letters addressed to Mr Hamilton and Mr "Ward hy Mr. Peel, inhjnniuj"; them that the Imperial Governmentt was umiblo to assist in the otahlishment of the propped scrvic.;, owinpf to the expense if, would entail on tlu: country; ail-J :l letb-'l' from Mr. fhimillon to .Mr. Peel, urging reasons for further imjuiry and cuusiduration, to which there is no reply.