For the information of the. pleasure-loving portion of the community Tee may state Messrs: Ross and Aldrieh. have kindly consented to run trama, bctweenthe: Bluff and the Green Hills, on Monday, -the 2nd of January. . There will bo no charge for the trip i by tho railway. A train will leave tho" Bluff at 10 a.m. A second train will leave the Bluff at. 3 p.m., and run to the Grrccn Hills returning at 11 a.m. A second train will leave tlio Bluff at 4 p.m. and return afc 4< p.m. The distance is about six miles. "Wo aye given to understand that Cobb and Co., if sufficient inducement is held out, will run coaches from Invcrcargill to the Green Hills and back, on tho above day, so that the public can, if they are so minded, enjoy a 'very plcasnt trip at no great expense. The weather during the last few days has been .remarkably fine, but the sultriness of tho atmosphere has been such as to render locomotion 'anything but pleasant. Tho nights hpwevor have been cool, and last evening the cloudiness of tho sky gave promise of rain, which would bo most, welcome .to vegetation. , The Christmas holidays have been kept just as they should be. People have enjoyed themselves, — all appear to have been sociable and happy, and there has been an absence of drunkenness and qiiarrelling, which have too frequently charac- . terised this time of rojoicing. The Olago Daily Times of tho 28fch insfc. Bays : — Roberts, the billiard Champion, played his first match in Danedin at Hoyt's Eihpiro Hotel Xlligli-strect, last evening. One of the two tables -wad removed from the very haiidsome'saloon, and commodious seats were arranged, gallery-Tfise. There was a very good attendance. The opponent of the Champion was Mir. Pcrotfci, who plays a careful and 'good left-handed game, as is very well known to the players afc Arthur's Point, as well as in Dunedin. We believe that he has rarely played anything that can be called matches ; and if his playing with the Champion rendered his game last evening less certain than it usually is, the fact cannot be yondered at. Ho' made some good cannons" last evening, as well as, > some pretty losing hazards ; but wlaat luck tTieirc was in. tlio breaking of tho balls was certainly not in his favor. Mr. Perotti received "6oo points out of a 1000 ; but Roberts passed! him aoon after he had rcaclicd~Boo, and when tho game was ended, his score stood at SJ.6 only. k The Champion's play last evening was nob in 'what would -be called Ins brilliant style. His greatest bro^k was SO, 72 of which he mado by red hazards, his opponent's ball having pocketed." The jSTcw Year appears likely -to bo welcomed with something like former spirit. Wo understand that the Caledonian Gathering will take place on Monday on. the old.ground at Invercaigill, when a variety of Scottish games will como off. Sports will also, wo believe, be held in other portions of the town and suburbs. • • , " . The trustees of the liivorcargill' Savings Bank are requested to meet this, day, , at ,. noon, at, tho offices of the bank, in -Tay-slreot, on important business, , ' ' . On Tuesday, one of the lunatics confined in the asylum, in Esk-sl.recfc, made his cscapo -by jumping over tho yard fence, .and up to last evening lie had npt boon re- taken.
*The late jcob^cry at tlwj'!Post;office,'Pujiedin, i g stilf causing a good deal of excitement/ ancl various suspicious dxc i-ifc.^rVV^e'believe-tln^ upfto the present liniejthe police have been' ablq-to discover "■no elue%^tE'e' offender. * "Serfar Sis' we can learn, the numbers of tlie missing notes \r.e__iißt known to tho authorities. We'talce tho following from tho W&Jcatip Mail 'of thc"2Jth insfc. ""Ifetfran cxtrixct from a letter' •written to Dr. Eyisorfby a gentleman formerly re- - siding at'Qucenstown :— r" Sir,, — I know not what you wflTtlunlj; of my extreme tardiness in redeeming the promise made when wishing" you good-bye in 1 Queenstown. I have not beenablo to keep up a correspondence, and -have only Just returned from the "West Coast — having, left, that God-for-saken part of the island less than a fortnight agol A sojourn of four months clJcl not reconcile mo to the "Western El Dorado, which is in truth about tho most miserable one that Kas yet broken out amongst tho auriferous districts of tho colony. There is, however, plenty of scope for fresh discoveries,- and I believe something of importance ■will yet be opened a long way south of the present workings. The present woi-kfngs are almost solely confined to a creek called the Greenstone, where the work is very hard, and tlie gold obtained in small- quantities. There was a rush to a river called the Totaraj sonde forty-eight miles south of the Greenstone, but the wet weather rendered it impossible to give tho place a fair trial. The spring and summer are tho Avet seasons on tlie "West Coast, while tho autumn and winter are reckoned the dry. You can scarcely conceive anything more uncomfortable than living in the damp bush of that clamp climate. The river Grrcy is the depot for all goods required by the miners and other residents, who number altogether, perhaps five or six hundred. — J. D. Walker.— loth Dec., 1861." ' • Racing at "Wallacetown is announced for Monday, tlie 2nd of January. The Invorcargill Races are advertised to come off on tho 3rd and 4th February, 1865, when wo hope, notwithstanding tho dullness of 'the times, to see the average number of horses' come to tho post. Tuesday being St. John's Day, tho Masonic ! brothern, according to their usual custom, assom- ! blecl in tho Masonic Hall, Kelvin-street, at high j twelve. ' A correspondent, whose letter we publish elsewhere, thinks that a pic-nic to Stewart's Island might be arranged successfully, and bo a very pleasant way of spending New Years' Day. Wo quite agroo with him, and recommend him to use his best endeavors to interest tho -public in tho matter, as there is not much time left for making the necessary preparations. The Auckland papers inform us that the New Zealand Banldng Corporation has obtained its Act of Incorporation under the newtitlo of "Tho Commercial Bank of New Zealand.", " Thatcher's concerts in tho Corinthian Hall promise to bo very successful in a pecuniary ' sense. Of the first of tho scries the livening Star says :— -The room was crowded to suffocation, ] and (here was literally no standing room. " In i the gallery might have been seen a goodly number ' of tho professional celebrities of Dunedin, and moro than one M.P.C. waited anxiously, and.perhaps fearfully, for the " locals " which it was expected would deal out hard knocks to some mdi-; victuals — nor was this expectation disappointed, and the songs founded upon the "Assault Case," tho " Election,'? and " Dunedin Improvements," kept the audience in a continued roar of laughter. Mr. Small contributed much to the success of the concert by his comic Irish songs, which are entirely divested of that vulgarity and coarseness which generally characterize this description of them at Concert Halls. Tho accompaniments of Mr. Oakcy were carefully played, and fully sustained that gentleman's- reputation as a pianist, candidates, plaintiffs, defendants, and counsel all share alike, each receiving according to" his deserts. Tho concert ivas much enlivened by tho singing of Madamo Yitolli, who has wonderfully improved since she last sang in this city. " Her ballad of " I'll "follow thee," Svith' flute obligate, was beauti'ully rendered, ana most deservedly encored. < \ The separation movement promises to bo re"vived in Otago. The Times says that a preliminary meeting has been held in "tiio Provincial Hotel, and a requisition to His Honoi; tho Superintendent agreed to, praying him to call a public meeting, to be 'held in tho Princess' Theatre, for tho purposo of " taking into consideration the formation of a League/ha ring for its object the Reparation of -the Middle from the Northern Island." _ . \ Active steps arc being adopted, in Auckland to secure the creating of that Province into a separate colony. A considerable sum has been subscribed for tho purpose of preliminary expenses. An association has been- formed, and a A committee appointed. A meeting is shortly, to be held to receive tho report, and adopt a petition to tho Queen and the Imperial Parliament. Tho Kawa Kawa coal, obtained in tho Province of Auckland, has been tried on board H.M.S. Falcon, and the 'result was most satisfactory.^ Captain Parkin declares the coal to be tho best used in his Bhip either on the New Zealand' or Australian station. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Nelson at about half-past •three o'clock, oil Saturday morning, December 17th. No damage was done. The JOTobart Toion Mercury gives the following in re Saxby : — " Wo .are . old enough to remember with remarkable precision Mr. MurphyJs weather almanac for 1838. . Tkat -was one of tlie most singular and fortuitous instances of "weather prognostications being verified by the event anywhere attempted. Mr." Murphy had predicted in his almanac for that year— the- first he had ever published— that there /would be a frost every day in the month of January un&l the 17th, which was indicated as the coldest clay in the year, to be succeeded nest day by a- thaw. Strange to say the month of January set in that year with the severest frost known, in England for thirty or forty years", which reached its culminating pome on tho 17th, when the thermometer^ £Al to zero, ■ and ia many parts in England below it — that boing the coldest day for ncai-ly hah 0 ' a century, and next day the frost was all gone. • Never was there such a guess before or since. Mr Murphy tried his hand on again,> and where is he' now ? Where but in tlie limbo of all deluded weather prognosticators — destined to hit with one of their guesses, and to miss with fifty? And where will Mr.' Satby be, when one or two mora years hay£ passed over his head ? Where is he in fact at tho present moment, ia the minds of 'all sensible people ?"
<!lt i^ptiß^baUh|^tial Cal.jd^JGtlll^ ing will .take jWx on $ew Tear's b^*«i ] *&%? '• The Fire BHgadp tun^ ouyb^ pn^jo^|^|t the engine last-evening,' at the 6ofna&&mlo'and Tay- starlets, a supply -of water being—dtitaxneA fipom the Puni dfeefc--TLfe manner in wkick tne engine and its appurtenances were handled, sljowb already that the Brigade is rapidly processing in efficiency ; and. it. will, in a short time,' constitute a most invaluable body in InvercargilL -"' - ■*'" A sport,. of an enl^rely novel character, -will, on Monday, be inaugurated in InvercargilL Several prizes for riflo shooting. ,will bp .contested for during thoday, at the Rifle Galldry, Royal Hotel, Tay-street ; and in the evening a grand bowling^ match \vi]l.take place, in the Bowling Saloon of' the same'hotel. The following is the state of He* Migesty's Gaol at Invercargill for the week ending, Thursday, the T29th instant : — Sentenced to' penal servitude, males, 5 ; sentenced to hard labor, smales, 12, females, 2 ; imprisonment oply, males, 1 ; lunatics, males, 6 ; on remand, Resident Magistrate's Court, males, 1 ; committed for trial, Supremo Court, males, 1. Total, males, 26, females, 2. Received during the week, males, 3; discharged during the week, males, 3, females, 1 ; decrease for week, 1.
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