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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 46, 22 February 1864, Page 2

Vague Kumora Avere current in town yesterday thaP»a goldfield had heen discovered within sixty -miles of Invercargill and that some person had waited on the Superintendent Avith information entitling theni to -claim tho reward ; hut ns on Snnclay it Avas impossible to ohtain any official or accurate information *o,n the subject^ avc can -only ask the 'rumor to be accepted as Aye took it cum grdno salts'. "

' Aii gi?eat li^tiip^^hde results »6ffi non-deliVeiySb^^a arriving on a Sundfty£; -as AvaSjthe pasS yesterday on the arriv-allbfc " the Titania, |Sye'j : inig^ ; ! suggest, that it.woiiddV not be any gi*eafcdeseeration sf the Sabbath if one of the .post office ofßoialsiwas allowed to sort and deliver aife*w : letters "on the arrival of a mail <on adopted in Duiiedin, and st&hthat ipity has not been destroyed by Are 6? swowh y V. '"VVjV Tho acooasion whicli- the Theatre Koyal has : yeeeived^^ithiii'*- tliof lffst v^ekr*-hy ■ the^hevt company from DunedM^lias 3 boen moist sue* oessM for the management. The greatest attraction- which 5 the" Theatre how possesses, is-f that afforded by Miss Eloise Juno, who has appeared in several, ■dmereiit pieces since her" engagement. Wo ' 'caniibt ;i particulstris6 ;j the various pieces in which she has delighted ■ : crowded audiences, .hut. .cannot :help referring j more lengthily to her actmgau the-farce of ■■■ -the ".Bonnie, Fishwife.'' y.Miss Juno, in the farce, sustains the double characters, of Miss Thistledown mid Maggie' Macfarlane- the* 1 first, sheadmiriably^pburtrayed -the' '-''fine lady; bnt her to th.e.Jatter named Adhk- t racter,- ..completely, . took, her. ; audience by J storm. Her impersonation of the Scotch Lassie,- her affectation— so > to -speak iiii' contra- 1 dictory terms'-- of ; artless -simplicity/ her-' naivete, and also . her hiunorous | .but v perfectly natural and correct, pronunciation ...of the i Scotch language, and* use of the nationalidiom, completed one of the best theatrical portraits. we have, ever seen oh the, stage. ■ •->' 'In\ the representation of such, characters;*. . Miss Juno will hit completely the tastes of a great majority of the folks here, ', and, 'as' a'cbuse-/ sequence, 'will "draw excellent 'house's." We' see by the. announcement, that Mr".' Small will' appear at the Royal,, for. a few. nights, ; in ther burlesque (with ghostly effects)" of . Lord? Lovel. - ■ -„- -..i .. It would appear as if the cautions given by the Bench, and the accompanying fines levied on persons for furiously driving horses through the public streets, have no beneficial effect in, deterring others. On Saturday afternoon a drunken idiot on a horse in the North road, was furiously riding his liorse, and by a perfect miracle a poor woman narrowly escaped being knocked down and trodden on,* her escape being attributable to ' the more sensible animal of the two — the four-footed, beast. We see that the police authorities have been for the last two or three days serving' notices on tho occupiers of a number of " grog shanties " on the line of railway, to compel theni to take out the* ordinary ' license to occupy Crown lands for business purposes. Tliis step on the part of the police will, no doubt, have the effect of diminishing the number of these places. The Daily Telegraph (Dunedin) states — "It having been announced through the daily journals that six monster blasts would be fired off yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, at the Bell Hill cutting, under the direction of tlie Provincial Engineer, nearly a thousand persons assembled on the jetties and in tlie vicinity of the hill to witness the results. The time mentioned for the .explosions,, which were to be simultaneous, was four o'clock. The aggregate of the charges consisted of about half a ton of gunpowder, and the quantity of stone the explosive force of this was calculated to remove, had been set down at ten thousand tons. At foxu* o'clock several men on the . hill were engaged at the blast holes, and ■ by the next half hour all the operations; j appeared to have concluded. The laborers retired behind the hill. There was a signal given for those in too close proximity to keep off, and everyone held his breath, momentarily expecting to hear a report reverberating through the air, and to witness a moving wall of solid stone dashed, into countless pieces. But after the lapse of some time, the men were . again appearing at the blasts. It was thought something had gOne wrong, and this turned out to be correct, for at a qivcrter-past five o'clock no report had been hoard, and the face of the rock stood as firm and as solid as it probably did a thousand years since. Many peoplo had by this time left their places of observation, believing that something had occurred to prevent the blasting operations from being proceeded with, when suddenly a bell pealed forth its warning note, and almost imniediately afterwards a succession of reports were heard, when- a large mass of stone was seen to move forward i slowly, and then crumble away as it fell to I the ground. This time the blasting did not answer so successfully as on the last. Wliile the quantity of gunpowder was more than , double that used on the previous occasion the; quantity of stone and debris moved Avas less .' than half. We have not been able to ascertain from Mr. Swyer the cause of the delay in exploding the shots, nor why the whole were not discharged at the same instant of time, as also how so very small an amount of metal was detached from the body of the hill." The following very original and rather witty communication was forwarded, the other . day to the Town Board, but it is probable the } gentlemen addressed will not be. stirred up by such means to do then* duty, and will only consider the writer's intention to be what is vulgarly called " taking a rise " out'of them, and no beneficial result of the application will likely ensue : — "To the Chairman and Member's of the Town Board. Gentlemen. — Opposite^ my premises, in Kelvin-street, stands a lagoon perfeetly'navigable for any craft not- drawing I inorc than four feet 'of water. I wbuhl! respectfully suggest to youi* honorable Board the propriety of erecting a pontoon bridge betwixt my place and the opposite side of the way. I have been. rated, to the tune of.five pounds twelve. Instead of -lighters: T would prefer drays to unload- my goods..' Hoping yoxu 1 Board Avill take the matter intoyoUr immediate consideration, T, ian. &c. f , '— — — — ■:" Irom the Otago Times of the 18th inst. we extract the following :j — "On mustering the Aldinga's passengers on the eve of departure yesterday, a carpet bag, of considerable weight, was found in the possession of one man wiioso appearance did not bespeak the possession of much wealth. But on examination it was found to contain about 600 ounces of gold, of -va hiuh he v. as joint proprietor with three othcr-mntes-on -board ; and-whichrthey-had-- ' obtained in a short time at some of the Otago diggings. Fortunately for them they had faithfully paid the duty to the full value of the gold in their possession. " According.tft the Mwint Ida Mail, Clarke's diggings (18 miles trom the Hogburn) are not receiving much attention from the miners just now, in consequence of the high price of provisions and tho" rather uncomfortable weather lo which the localifyfis" '-jiibjeeted. A fall of snow occurred there'the other day."