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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 47, 17 September 1864, Page 3

Our Jetty, on tie 7thinst., presented such, a scene of bustle and animation as lias not been "witnessed before for a Tery l^ng period. On tlie arrival of the s.s. Ruby alo lgside the wharf, bringing a living freight 01 immigrants to town from the recently arrived ship Sevilla, at Bluff: Harbor, hundreds — ire might almost say thousands— of our citizens thronged this = Jetty- to "witness their debarkation. The sight of the arrival of some hundreds of our fellow .colonists, is an. interesting , one, and one is led from his own past experience to guess at the first impressions the "new chums" will form of the new place they hare adopted as their future home. We regret for their sakei that as things at present go with us. thfeir lines . hare not been cast by any means in such " pleasant places" as we could hare desired.- However, we hope, as there is room for aIL and maiiT more to come, that they will yet have good occasion to rejoice in the laud'oi their choice, and that few will ever ultimately repent, their coining hither; "We ! understand Mr. M'Arth'ur, iheinimigratianofficerj managed to find accommodation for thosa of the passengers as came under his especial care. The Dog Ordinance is being rigidly enforced in InvereargUL Several parties haire destroyed tiair canine pets, In preference to paying the registration fee of teai shilhngs. Itis.to l>e iioped they \vill use their mJiuenco to induce their friends to follow alike course- . „ .-: :- •-A maxr named Charles Sewsome^. who "VTaj retisssauig- lioiaeTrards on the Koad, oxi thft Ilia iusui was waylaid 'ati'-Ar^ejPs^J&y^aiftjUhsid his pockets rifled of jSI6 ia ixotei .' The pdrpeferatOK! of the Tioleuce «sun» up behind and striicSFhim & severw WsW. «at "^» )>aci:i^^b« beadi depriTing tim of Ksasibali^y £» a tfc»s