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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 23, 23 July 1864, Page 3

In order to afford space for the news by the Mail, -we withhold several items of local interest. It will be observed, on reference to our report ofthe Supreme Court proceedings yesterday, that in the case of Yon Hammer and another v. M'Clymont and another, the jury have not been able to agree, and have been discharged. We understand that there was a majority of nine to three on the first issue. The following is the state of Her Majesty's Gaol, Invercargill, for the week ending 22nd July 1864 -.—Sentenced to hard labor, 17 ; imprisonment only, 1; penal servitude, 3; remanded (magistrate's court). 1 ; debtors, 5 ; lunatics, 5 ; total, 82. Received during the week, 5 ; discharged during the week, 3. The Home News is responsible for the following :— Garibaldi has had 267,000 applications for locks of hair from ladies. The calculation is that after the complete cropping and exhaustion of tho hero's own hair, including whiskers and beard, 123 wigs woidd not have met the demand. We take the following from the Melbourne Herald, of the 14th inst. :— " There is some probability of the Persian Gulph telegraph being shortly opened, in which case a message will be sent from London to Galle in six days, and we in Melbourne will receive news not more tlian twentyfive days old. The Bombay Gazette states that 'A telegram from Colonel KembaJl, received in Bombay, on Sunday, stateß that the telegraph from Bagdad to Constantinople has been restored, and that quiet has boen established among the troublesome Arabs between Bagdad and Bussorab. It is probable, therefore, that we may have a message from London by this route next week, which will not take more than oix days in transmission, if the line from Bombay to Kurachee be in working order., ■". The Geelong Advertiser 'has the following' relative tb the. arrest of Mr. George Millar, in Sydney: — " Mr. Millar succeeded to the business of the late Mr. Annand, and enjoyed the confidence of several capitalists, who entrusted very large sums in his hands' for disposal at interest upon property bf various descriptions. "We hare h«ai-d of sums as, high ai £10,000 committed. to his keeping, but before. he absconded there was reason to Buspect his conduct, and. to avoid'discovery, and arrest, he Suddenly left the colony. Though it was well known that he had not been able to proceed further than Sydney before his departure was known, the detectives were moro than a month in discovering his whereabouts, bo'carefully guarded was his placfi of concealment. The misfortune in liis case is that most of the deed» that irere known to be in his possesion' cannot be found.."