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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 37, 1 February 1864, Page 4

Some of the: men employed on the railway lino between Winton and the Makarewa, in cutting through the swamp, found, the partially decayed trunks of large trees j although on the immediate surface, and for some .miles around, no timber of any kind is to be found. The new police station at Winton, .which is completed, is altogether a building admirably, adapted, for the comfort and convenience of the 'men. It is intended to accommodate ten or twelve men, and has stabling . and accommodation for ten horse 3. ,* Our issue of last Friday contained a.paragraph from tho- Dunedin Daily News, in wHoh it was stated that Mr.' Watson, of the Bank of New. Zealand, Invereargttl^. had been appointed to the management of the locaX,^ bi4mch of the Bank ofOtago (limited). ... Oirp> contemporary made a slight mistake, and we inadvertently allowed it to pass into buy columns. Ths gentleman appointed is Mr. Jamieson, of the Bank of ISTew South Wales, who, we have Jo doubt, will give satisfaction to the directors in Dunedin, and at home. Yesterday, afternoon, a portion of the crew of the Witch of the Tees, who were ashore on liberty, made so bad a tise of it, that getting more than reasonably-, drunk - — to use the Byronic definition of 'intoxication— they were with considerable difficulty lodged in durance vile by the police. A somewhat serious accident occurred yesterday to a man named Davis, an engineer, employed on the Northern Kailway. A portable steam-engine was in the course of removal to Winton, where it is intended to be erected for sawing timber for the line. It was being taken out by horses, and when near the El Dorado Hotel, Davis, who was sitting on one of the shafts, was thrown off by a jolt of Lho engine in going over a rough portion of the road. Falling close to one of ths wheels; it went over his leg, and severely lacerated the calf. A messenger, who was immediately despatched on horseback, to Winton, a distance of botwaen two and three miles, returned wiLh Dr. Scott, to the 151 Dorado, whers Davis's injuries were attended to. Sonic of the farmers and small settlers npar the line of railway between hsro and Winton, have, we hear, suifered from the wholesale depredations of several of the men employed on the works, who have used great freedom in supplying themsolvcd from th.B vegetable gardens of the settlers. Yesterday, information having been given to the police, two mon, who were caught hi jlagrante delicto, were apprehended and brought to the lock-up. Ths 3ccrotary of the Volunteer Fira Brigade has received a communication from Melbourne as to ths shipment in the Pilot, of all the appliances ordered to equip the Brigade. It •i 3 expcetod,that the ladder, carriage, &c, will give great satisfaction. We bslieve that i tracings and drawings of it have been taken and sent to Sydney aad other places, the same ' having been requested from the builders, Messrs. Stevenson and Elliott, of Melbourne. We cannot yet speak of its merits, as unfortunately no copies liave reached the committee here. There is to be a meeting of the Brigade this evening, at which important business will be transacted. The niambera of the Invcrcargill debating Club met on Friday evening last, when the debate on the American question was resumed; the principal speakers in- the affirmative- were Messrs. Hamilton, Corser, Williamson, and King j* and in the negative, Messrs. Lesard, Monroe, Castelberg, and Bailey. After a long and spirited debate a was colled for with the following result: — Ayes, 16, JSoes, 11. A discussion then ensued a3 to a subject of debate on the next night of meeting, and it was decided that Meagre. King and Munroe should hit' 03 a subject for argument, and duly advertise the same for the information of the members; ' ,*. We hen? that arrangements have" been* concluded for opening tho Theatro Royal with ' a dramatic company, on ' tlxa Bth of next month. Ths corps dramatiqus will comprise a good stook company from - the Dunedin theatre, and report speaks of Miss JiiUa Mathcws, Mr. Jefferson, and 1 Mr, Q-eorge Fawcett as "tho bright particular stars," who jaay bo expected, t<j elune in tho QcmraQ of the f^umaftc {jetton.,

Tlie arrival of the Alhambra at the Bluff on Saturday morning, puts us in possession of the long-delayed English Mail, which arrived at Melbourne oh the 23rd inst. We have also our Melbourne files to the 25th inst., from which we extract the latest commercial and shipping intelligence, &c. Amongst the pas- ? ' sengers hy the Alhambra were the celebrated cricketing team — the All-England Eleven. Referring to cricketing matters, the Argus of the 25th instant states :— " The All-England Eleven take their departure for New Zealand this morning. They sail by the Alhambra, which leaves Sandridge Railway Pier at ten w o'clock a.m., and' ; go down to embark by the quarter-past nine a.m. train. They proceed first to JDunedin, and then to Canterbury, returning to Melbourne about the end of February. It is proposed, on their return — say on the 3rd, 4th, and sth of March— to play a match composed of two elevens, on the Melbourne Club's ground, the Englishmen dividing themselves . as follows, and being joined by a sufficient number of local players, selected by the local committee :— -Mr. Parr's sid& — Messrs. Grace, Hayward, Jackson, Clarke and Lockyer ; Mr. Anderson's side — Messrs. Caffyn, Carpenter, Tarrant, Caesar, and Tinley. In a report of the Regatta in the Times of Friday it was stated. that the apparent cause of the Coquette losing the sailing match with the Scud was that the latter named boat was better handled by her crew, and that also she had the advantage of a strong breeze of wind in beating up to the point where they rounded before returning to the starting point. This certainly was the cause, as it appeared from the deck of the steamer? but we have since been informed that some of the gear of the Coquette gave way, and the delay in repairing, and less efficiency when repaired, were the causes of her being beaten. We understand that her owners are so confident of her superior sailing qualities, they have backed her against' the Scud for £50 to £10. As the bet will likely be accepted, a good match will be the result. We see that the proprietors of the Bendigo Advertiser have been made defendants to an action for libel by Mr. Hughes, a schoolmaster of Sandhurst, in which the damages are laid at £1000. It appears that the alleged libel consisted in the Advertiser stating that Mr. Hughes's absence from Sandhurst was of a permanent character, and that he had " left sorrowing creditors " behind him. It seems that the rumour was based on a pretty good foundation, as not only had several parsons, . to whom Mr. Hughes owed money, put the law in operation during his temporary absence, by seizing his household effects, but that his flight was common " table talk. " Really under such circumstances the joiunialist walks a dangerous path. We know it is often % hazardous thing to make a journal what some writes or other said it ought to be — the reflex of public opinion — but in ths present instance he must run the risk of paying £1000 for merely making it the echo of the public voice. It will be seen from our Police Court report in to-day's issue, that the second man inipliin the recent daring case of highway \<.obbery, has been ai-rested by Detectives j Thomson and Forrester. In justice to the active detectivity displayed by Mr. Thomson, we are "lad to be able to compliment him on the arrest he has made ; an arrest which will, i probably, have as . great a deterring effect in I the commission of such crimes as the ultimate punishment of the two offenders. Mr. Thomson was off duty at the time of the comniis- i sion of tha offence, aud immediately on being able to resume duty> he adopted such measures as, combined with his"pr9vious knowledge of the first prisoner, Murphy, and his companions, convinced him of the identity of the second man concerned in the robbery. Promptly acting on ths infonnafcion he received, he, on Friday morning, made arranc-ements with Detective Forrester to make a tour of the railway works and other portions of ths district betwesn this and the j Lake. Fortunately the officers had only pro- j ceeded about eight miles from town, when the ! " wanted" was found at work on the line. The ! circumstances of the case show that the estab- j h'shment of a proper system of police detection | not only acts as a preventive of the commission of such crimes, from the fact of the men generally employed in tliem being often deterred because theyare "known to the police," and consequently aware they are under the surveilance of the detectives ; but it also, as in the present instance, affords the means of speedily capturing the offenders. The Argits, of the 25th instant, states — " Colonel Pitt and his pseudo-emigration schema proceeds -apa-ec. The Thomas Grcsham, a ship of about 1,200 tons, has been chartered for the transmission Of the first, batch of "military settlers,", and on Tuesday or Wednesday next will. probably take some 400 persons away. ■ !N"ot all are yet on board, but a good portion are, and many are absent on leave. On and yesterday, so we are informed, a money-broker was doing a roaring trade^on board, buying up £11 advance notes ' for £8 or £9. It is not wholly improbable that a little desertion may take place under such circumstances. There was no enrolment in Melbourne on Saturday, buc the work will begin again to-day. On Thursday last we learn that seventy-eight tingle and twenty married men were enrolled on Ballarat ,- and Captain Frizer, the agent, then proceeded to Creswick and Smydesdale to get' more recruits. On Caitlernaino Captain Langden, another of Colonel Pitt's accredited agents, 'was almost mobbed at his hot-el by the eager recruits. He enrolled fifty-six, twenty-two single men and thirty-four married men (with ninety-six children). -In the end he obtained twentytwo men from Kyneton and nearly sixty from Castleinaine, the majority of whom are married men."