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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 28, 11 January 1864, Page 2

We have to call attention to the usual I monthly meeting of the Volunteer Fire brigade i to-night, at eight o'clock, at the Uaion Hotel^ We understand it is the intention of the committee to make application to the Superintendent for the £500 voted by the Provincial Council as a subsidy to the Brigade, which would enable them to complete the purchase of an engine, and all the necessary apparatus. Jt ■ ' would only, therefore, remain for the Town Board ; to'assist the Brigade by the erection of an engine bouse, and an alarm bell. *

'y; Tbe^Criniinal^ Sittiif^s of tlie Suprethe^QcAjiffc 'will eomm^pc^i to-daj^'iitllL «|t l lpck, beforeKSj* ~JtMU^\ Greseon^| fn jthe'YHall ojKtJ^ lander :— Regiria y Aaams f 'fore;erfi/ilegma.jvjQex- .-, bert, forger?'; Regina v'CoultharSfbbtainiDg^ooda under false pretences; and ReginV v ,-Syraeryille, larceny, , TholCiyU .Sittings ai^ fixed/ifor this, S 4s j. , week. - • — ■•■*■*— ■--■ — " ; r TheTheatre Royal on'Tfiursday mgbtwcelyedan; accession to the "coihrjany performing there/ MrSinallj of comic celebrity, appearing for the first.time.* Very few/'voeal'sts .fiaye; earned for themselves such a favorable reputation as Mr Small; and we have no doubt, but that his engagement will be regarded as an additional attraction to the already exceiie>f class of amusement, provided by Thatcher's company. Part of the freight of the Omeo, on her last, trip from Melbourne, const ted of three Victorian Racers. Two of them, brought over by Mr Cuff, for Mr 31 Kenzie, are Young Alma and ShillelaghTiie third, Sorcerer, the property of Mr West on, who has brought it over. This speaks well for the amusement the sporting section of Invercargill may expect at the meeting nest month. theKynctdn Chronicle records another frightful death caused by wearing crinoline: — "Mrs Margaret Gritfvn,* o f Middle G-ully, died in. the Kyneton-hospital on the 20th December. Deceased was the wife of n carrier at Middle Gully, and on the 27th November last, while her husband was absent on a journey to Castella's station, on the Upper Yarra, she was about to go up to the. butcher's at dusk, and in turning round to leave, after seeing that the children -were all right, her dress caught fire. She had sufficient presence of mind to roll a blanket round her skirts and extinguish the fire, but shortly after, on coming to the door, her upper garments began to burn, and she frantically ran out calling for help. A Mrs Muttht wson, who lived near, came with a bucket of water, wdicb. she tlivew upoa deceased, but as^stance was too late, as the poor creature's chest and neck, as well as back and arms, were trightlully burned. Dr. Rijjhy, who was imme»a> diately sent for, did everything he could to alleviate the poor creatures suffuriugS. and had her in a few days after conveyed to the Kyneton Ho pital for better nursing,- though from the first it was known that there was no chance of the poor wotuau's r.eovery. SUe lingered in the Hospital till Sunday last, when death put an end' to her sufferings. Deceased, whose maiden name was Cowell. was at her death nearly thirty years of ago, and a native of Dublin." At a meeting of gentlemen interested in the formation of a Debating Society, held on Friday i night, in the School House, Tay street, a number of additional members' names were enrolled. The following gentlemen were elected as a committee to carry out the objects of the society, viz.: — Messrs M'Connell (Treasurer), M. Lez.ird (Secrefcary), Riley, Kin*, Ferguson, and Williamson, with power to add to their number. We hope the efforts of the committee to institute a rational and intellectual means of passing away an evening may meet with the success they deserve. A full report of the proceedings wilt be found in anoiber column. The Cornwall Chronicle of the 16th Decembestates : — " A most extraordinary change in the weather has taken place here, and has continued since Saturday last up to yesterday Although the wind has shifted to various poinls between North and Smth.; rain has fallen with but very slight intermission since Saturday night. T.ie barometer h'}s fallen to near 28, and we never remember tb v have noticed the weather so very inclement at th is "season ot the yenr, in Tasmania. The wind nnd continuous rnin is doing serious injury to the fruit, and ceriul crops." The proceedings of the Resident Magistrate',, Court on Friday, were of an uniinportant character. T\vo persons were charged with drunkenness, one of whom wai flue-'. 5s the other, najiel Francis Ambrose, aim C >ekatoo J.ick, bein^ an ol I offender, was sent to his oM quarters, in gaol, for seven days. A civil case — Hawthorne v Peterson, for £3 10-i for an overdue acceptance, Was decided, by a verdict for the plaintiff. On Saturday, there waa no business bciore the Court. It will be seen by advertisement in pnothe r portion of our columns, that the Bank of Otago will shortly open a branch establishment on the premises now occupied by Messrs Calder, Blacklock and Co, in Tay street. A General Government Gazette of the 23rd instant, contains a notice from the Postmaster General, that all sea-borne mails are to be kept open to within two hours of the departure of the mail Irom the Post-office. A supplementary mail is to be kept open after the closing of the mails for Australia and England to within twenty minutes of the latest period of despatch from the office. For such letters an additional fee of Is to be paid. Tue following account of a mysterious death is from the Argus of the 31 <b December: — "At about noon on the 28th inst, as Mr J. Roberts, a gardener living at Hawthorn, upon the bank of the river, was walking along the river side, he saw the body of a man lying on the bank, about four feet from the edge of the water. The body was partially covered by the drift and sand brought down by the river during the recent floods. He at once gave information to the police at Hawthorn, when the body was removed, and the clothes found upon it were searched for indications of the identity of the deceased. The body was very much decomposed, so much so that it fell to pieces on removal. The place where it was found was in Mr Roberts'* garden, but at a part where he had not been foe some time previously. An inquest was held on the remains yesterday before Air Candler, when Mr S. R. Church, publican, living at Richmond, said that, having seen the body and the clothes of the deceased, he believi d that he could recognise deceased as a man who had once lodged with l.im — a German, but whose name he was unable to remember. The belt produced he had given the deceased ; he knew it by a peculiarity in the clasp. Deceased was suddenly missed from witness' house on. the 97th of September. He baa slept in his bed the previous night, butdid not appear to breakfast. Witness never saw or heard of him after. He bad lived with witness for two years. No mental peculiarity had ever been observable in the deceased un til the evening before the day when lie disappeared. He then appeared in a state of great despondency. Charles Gerick, a carrier, also believed that the clothes and remains were those of the man refeired to by the last witness. The name of the man alluded to was August Lagershausen. Witness also remembered bis disappearance in September last. .He identified the body by the hands, and also recognised the clothes. Dr. Bragge, Hawthorn, said he had examined the remains then before the jury, but from the advanced stage of decomposition he could not form any judgment as to the cause of death. The bones were not fractured, but the soft part * were so decayed that it was. impossible to speak to the presence or absence of injuries by violence. He should thiuk that deceased bad been dead between three and four months; certainly not less than six weeks. The jury returned a verdict stating that ' the deceased, supposed, to be August Lagershaustn, was found dead on the 28th inst., near the river Yarra, at Hawthorn; but there was not sufficient- evidence to shosy honr he came by his death.' "

[ n^' ■ theApparimaj [ SchpaT-^feiriot, Wed-- | nesdas&thfe 6th, ac'^e'jAccqmmodatwtt^oixaep. j Qura^a JBush.; j^jk'anaW M^Naugbtoh in, the, Sjh^fefpiei^bjccßjT-Ihe meeting 'was; to fix upW a^prbpter site for thdnpreetion of tbe v fivab school and master's house in that district. It was shown , at..the,nieetin<j 'th.a§, Jjbe .centre.of the districfc^as, 'not the common centre of the population,- and that :no one position would: meet; the' wants of all. It was at last unanimously resolved to build on the Education Reserve at . Guram v's v Bash, as being. -the most convenient for tho largest. number. The Arrow Correspondent of the Wakatip Mail states :— " I regret to report that our postmaster/ Mr M Kean, has met with an accident which will incapacitate him from attending to 'his duties for some days, he having severely strained thesinews of his foot and ancle whilst practising' on the" cricket ground. Mining news from the Arrow river and its various tributaries is encouraging. Previous to the holidays, nearly all the claims' were in fair working. order, and should we be blessed with a continuance of fine weather during the present month, the yield of gold will in all probability prore considerable. The river is now lower than it" has been before during the. present season, and the snow having all disappeared, mining operations will 'be pushed on with' renewed vigor* Traffic has fairly set in on the Upper Shoiover track to Uris township, but not to the extent anti» ripated, although our storekce ers offer all inducement to packers by selling their stocks at very low quotations. His Honor tho Superintendent of the Province is expected to arrive here on Wednesday next." We see that some portion of fhe sides of Tay street has been laid with a mixture of gravel and shingle. Whether the amalgamation will stand the test of traffic, ami become sufficiently hard, or not, is a question. The middle of tbe road is still under the exporimenfcalismjr system of b»ing covered with soft clay, which the last few days have again converted into a bog. We might suggest a 'uriher experiment of pitching and metalling it » before the winter sets in. From the Otago Times we learn the " The Honorable T. li. Gillies, Postmaster-General, arrived in Dunediu, on Sunday, by the Phosba. He is making an official tour, and will probably visit the various branches of his department on the ! Gold Fields and at Invercar<jill. He is not expected to return to the North for two months." We quote the following from the Jjaunceston Examiner, of the 22ad December: — "At the > eckly meeting of the Council yesterday afternoon it was resolved to advertise for debentures to the amount of £5.090 to c>ver the expense of erecring the proposed T >wn Hall. It was also resolved to a '.vertise for a Clerk of the Works. Alderman Douglas, Castley, and Webster entered protests, asainst the whole proceedings in connection with the Town Hall. The Mayor stated that several persons had voted at the recent election who were not qualiGed, and a committee w.-is appointed to consider the cases. Some discussion took place in reference to the late inundation at New Town, and a committee was appointee! to open a correspondence with the Government, with a view of getting the embanl-.mpnts, which hitherto have been en tirely neglected, placed under the supervision of the Council. Frj'U the ttobart Town Advertiser we learn that on Friday evening, the 18th December, a man named Artlinr Millington, aged seventy five years, a mi kman, residing with his family in De Witt stre« t, Batteiy Point, deliberately cut his throat with a razor, and then ran rlovvn St. George's Hill and threw himself into the creek. He was seen by several persons running down the hill, and was taken out of the creek, but not before life was quite extinct. No cause can be assigned for so rash an act, more especially us deceased was in comfortable circuin&tauces, and had a nice family. | The following is fhe state of tho Giol for the I week ending 7tii J.mu-iry, lS5t: — Sentenced to hard labour, 8; nwaiiinjj trial — males, 3, females, j 1; debtors, 5; lunatics, 2 j total, 18 mules and 1 te.nale. R^ceivod during the week, 5 ; discharged during the week, 5. - j