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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 62, 22 October 1864, Page 2

, Ife is announced that Adjutant's parade will be held on the second and last Tuesday in each month. These parades are compulsory. The Government advertise for tenders for the leasing of the jetty at Invercargill for the year from and after the Ist November proximo. - They will be received up till noon of the 27th: earrent. • - We have much pleasure in stating that Mr. Jones of the Southland Club Hotel, has most liberally volunteered to provide refreshment* gratuitously to the school children who join in the public celebration of the' opening of the railway, on Tuesday next. Yesterday afternoon Mr. J. B. Thompson, Detective Officer, arrested a man named Samuel Silcpck, on the Punediri road, on the charge of committing the offence of rape on a girl of about sixteen years of age. He was at once taken into custody, and will-be brought before the Resident Magistrate's Court thid morning. A well-attended meeting of persons favorable to the formation of a volunteer corps for Campbelltown, took place at tho Court-house there ox Wednesday last. Mr. C. F. O'Toole occupied the chair. After a few introductory remarks from the chairman, Mr. Watt addressed the meeting, after which Mr. J. A. Bonar moved and Mr. Burrows seconded a motion to the effect that an •rtillexy corps bo formed, y The motion being carried unanimously, the necessary: memorial war. then drawn up, and signed by, upwards of fifty, to be forwarded to His Excellency the Governor through Capt. .Timor, the actingradjutant of the volunteer and militia forces for the district. At the Oyster Saloon of Messrs. M'Donald and Co., Arcade, may be inspected a splendid sample of whalebone recently brought over from Stewart's Island. It is what might be called whalebone proper, being a portion of 5 those organs inths humpback species of whale, , which serve in the place of .teeth. We are informed thafc there is this peculiar difference betwixt tho humpback and sperm whales, that while the latter ara provided with regular sets of toeth, the former, being of totally different habits, and living on what is usually denominated tuction, are merely furnished with lami*/s of plates through or betweon which the fish inhales the water, which is afterwards expelled into the air in the form of spouts . This whalebone is the most expensive of any, and fetches extreme prices, the present v&lue in th» London market being, w© are told, something like £160 per ton. On the extremities of the plates referred to are long whalebone bristles, which may be seen frequently made use of in the manufacture of brushes of various kinds. A meeting of gentlemen residing in and around Invercargill is called for this day, at four o'clock, in the Southland Club. Hotel, for the purpose" of taking into consideration the formation of a Volunteer Caralry Corps for the district. Auckland journals inform us that Miss Eloise* Juno has been very favorably received at the Theatre Royal there. She has been appearing as Pauline in the Lady of Lyons, and in her favorite , character of Maggie M'Farlane, in the Bonnie,;? Fishwife. ' >j We have much pleasure in stating that Mr. Perkins, who lectured on the evening*bf Wednesday la9t on " Lighthouses and Lightships," has been appointed to the afS.ce o$ secretary to the Mechanics' Institute. The sittings of the Supreme Court were brought to a close yesterday after the hearing of a few insolvency petitions, in all oi which the order for final discharge was granted. By the City of Hobart Mr. Basstian, of this Province, has received a consignment of superior rams from Melbourne, for the purpose of improving the breed'of his sheep, and we think his example one worthy of every consideration at the - hands of flockowners generally. The rams referrod tO were bred by Messrs. Degraves and Co., . of Melbourne, at Coliban Fart, out of picked ewes (selocted irom the flock of the late John Aitken) by imported Rambouillet rams, selected at the Imperial Farm of Rambouillet, by Monsieur Aube, who is acknowledged to be on» of the best judges of sheep and wool in France. We have much pleasure in referring our readers to tho programme, published elsewhere in our eolums, of the arrangements which have been made for the General holiday on Tuesday next, on the occasion of tho " public opening of the Great Northern Railway." So far, all the proceedings of the Committee have been attended with unqualified success, and it requires but favorable weather, on Tuesday to render it one of the moat eventful days in the history of the Province. We may mention that His Honor the Superintendent on being communicated with, has returned a reply fco tho effect that the day will be" proclaimed •> : general holiday, and it is quite certain that business will be entirely suspended. Elsewhere we have mentioned that the school children are to b» treated with refreshments gratutiously by-:: Mr. Jones of the Southland Club Hotel This* task, ao liberally dnd magnanimously undertaken by thia gentlempn, will evidently be no light one, as already the folio wing numbers of tickets have been bespoken for this class ot excursionists, viz., :— 100 for Mr. Hamilton's school ; 120 for the Public School; 120 for the Wesleyan Sunday School ; 60 for Mr. M'Dohald's School ; and 40, for Mr. Searle's School, A meeting of the General Committee will be held at Mr. G. W. Binney'* Auction Mart, this afternoon, at four o'clock, to receive tho reports of the various sub-committees, and take into consideration the Secretary's report. On and after Monday, -the 81st izntant, Cobb and Co. will-run a coach to Lake Wakatip, leaving every Monday and Thursday, at half-past ; two o'clock in the afternoon. i Webeg to "refer our readers to two important „ notifications emanating from the Town 'Board ' office, to be found in on? Advertising columns, i The consecration of the new: Roman Catholic Church (St. Mary's) on the Bluff Road, willtake place to-morrow, at half-past ten o'clock. The opening and benediction will be performed' by the Right Rev. Dr. Viard, Bishop of Wellington, M* aisted by tho Very Rev. J. J. P. O'Reilly, V. G., and the Rev. Father ' Martin. High Mass will afterwards be celebrated by His Lordship the > Bishop, and an appropriate discourse will be delivered by the Very Rev. J. J, IP. O'Reilly. At the.

•tion willbo»dminiftered,.»nd in th» evening, »t half-past six o'clock, there will be Vespers and religious instruction. The Promneial Government Gazette of 20th insfc., contains a return of the eafcfcle slaughtered for sale during the month of September, from which we glean the following partioularß :— ln the Invercargill district there were slaughtered 78 great cattle, 352 sheep, 12 pigs, total 442 ; Campbelltown -district^ 10, great cattle, 80 sheep, 2 pigs, 92; Lowther District, 1 great cattle, 5 sheep, total 6; Winton District, 5 great cattie, 2 aheep, total 7 ; Riverton District, 8 great cattle. The grand totals, therefore, stand aa follow*:— 102 great cattle, 439 sheep, 14 pigs, in aU,- 555. His Excellency the Governor, in a New Zealand Gazette o£ 26th ultimo, proclaims the assent of Her Jiajesty to the new Southland Waste Lands Act. His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, has been pleased to delegate, under tho "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," to the Superintendents respectively of all the New Zealand Provinces the several powers Tested in him by the 2nd, 4th, sth, 7th, 9th, and 10th sectionß of the said Act. The Government Gazette, of the 20th instant, contains a " Report on Southland Bailways," addrassed to the Superintendent \j Mr. J. P. Dundas, consulting engineer. The report, so far as it goes, is satisfactory ; but after all that has been •aid on the manner in which the works have been executed, and on the departures from the original apeciScations, we think it would have' been still more satisfactory had "it contained some information on these points. There is likewise a> Beport on the Harbor of New Eiver, by Captain Greig, Harbor-master. In a future issue, we may offer •ems remark* on ihcso document*.