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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 245, 23 April 1866, Page 2

We understand several gentlemen interested in commerce and the Press of the colony contemplate the formation of a company, after the style of " Reuter's Telegraph," to embrace the . whole of New Zealand, with branch establishments throughout Australia, and all the inlportant settlements on the Panama and Overland line to England. We hope the project will be carried out. Abley managed success would be almost certain. The latest information received from Victoria has but one item of especial interest. A compromise between the two Houses has been come to, but not by the unanimous consent of the members of the Executive. The Parliament has been prorogued, and, consequently, Mr G-eorge has been released. Afr Saturday's morning train from Makerewa approached the Invercargill station, one ofthe guide-wheels broke, and the engine got off the line. Fortunately the limit to which the speed of the train is confined prevented any accident further than the damage to the engine which is but Blight. On Friday evening, the 20th inst., a number of gentlemen, favorable to the establishment of a Literary Society, met in the room at the Ragged School, Dee-street. The attendance was not large, but tbe gentlemen present expressed great interest in the movement, and after some remarks as to the desirability of persevering in the object of the meeting, it was stated that as several gentle* men who had expressed sympathy in the movement were unavoidably absent tho meeting should be adjourned until HViday, the 87th April. Tha suggestion vfm adopted. We hope evsyyofte interested & mwtd vAjfm wU! mM 9& eSWt &

The Merald, 14th April says *—-" Prince de Conde, who is a passenger to Sydney by the R.M.S. Bombay, visited Melbourne - yesterday, during the stay of that vessel iv the port" The Saturday Review, writing about the Shenandoah, says : — "She subsequently went te Melbourne, and an account of what happened there has been drawn up by one of her -crew named Temple, who since her arrival in Liverpool has furnished the United States authorities with an account of her proceedings. \ If his account is read by itself, the Melbourne authorities would seem to have behaved with disgraceful partiality to a Confederate vessel, to have placed themselves and their resources at the disposal of the Confederate commander, and to have joined in what is called an ovation to Captain Waddell and his Btaff. Fortunately, however, the Bluebook in which Temple's statement is Bet out also contains a long series of extracts from the newspapers of Victoria, published during the stay there of the Shenandoah. The extracts are so numerous,-and are taken from so many different journals, as to leave little doubt that the information given by Temple is very- far from correct. The Melbourne authorities, farfrom welcoming the Shendoah, gave her as unfavorable a reception as was consistent with admitting her at all on the basis of a man-of-war belonging to a recognised belligerent. She was evien detained for some little time on the slips where she was being repaired, she was forced to give up four seamon that had enlisted on her, and she was only allowed to sail on the captain's giving his word of honor that there were no other sailors on board who had joined here since her arrival in Victoria."