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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 255, 9 May 1866, Page 2

The South Australia^ Advertiser, in a leader on the Agricultural Statistics, estimates the balance of breadstuffs available for exportation now, at from 27,000 to 28,000 tons, and says that there., is not much chance of high prices rub'ng this side of 'next harvest. y A leader in the Daily Teleyraph to-day says that, although » the Assembly's majority may vote iSir Charles Darling money, the Audit Commissioners coulu not pass it, as it would raise a suspicion that the Governor was paid for services rendered to Mr M'Culloch and his Mends,

We regret that through pressure on our apac c we are obliged to hold over Hospital correspondence ,and several articles of local interest until our next issue. We are/ glad to observe that the embankment of the Bluff Harbor Eaiiway extending along the eastern shore of the New Eiver estuary, iB rapidly approaching completion ; only about a dozen yards or so Jof the work remaining to be done. Meanwhile the ballasting of the line is being proceeded with, and we doubt not, the public will shortly have the satisfaction of seeing the locomotives brought into requisition at the town end, for the purpose of facilitating the operations in that quarter. ; '. , It has for ssme time been a matter of specula, tion as to who was the Editor of the Argus. The following paragraph appears to solve the question, we take it from the Age, 27th Ap ril : — '•The Eev. Mr Jarrett, editor of the Argus, was horsewhipped in the Parliament yard, on Tuesday afternoon, by Mr Thomson, the chairman of the late meeting held in the Eastern market. It appears that the Argus accused Mr Thomson of . having been at one time the pu blic flagellator at Point Pure, in Van Diemen's Land, and that insertion was refused to a letter contradicting this statement, and proving, by documentary evidence, that it was false. Smarting under a sense of this injustice, Mr Thomson dealt with the editor in the manner above described." It will be seen, from our advertising columns, that the quarterly Session of the Supreme Court, will be held at the Court House, Invercargill, on Monday next, the 14th inst., at 10 o'clock. Mr Justice Chapman will preside, and is expected to arrive by the Phoebe. The calendar is , light, there being only four cases of larceny to be disposed of. . " We have information from Eiverton, under date 7th May. Hunt and party had arrived at the diggings, but no important news had been received as to the gold finds ; all hands appear to bo working steadily, and with seeming success. A disturbance took place on the night of the 28th April, at a. tent of a questionable character, between three men named George " Boyd, John M'Eoy. and Timothy Donovan. Boyd* it appears charged Donovan with stabbing him with a knife in the hand, aud was taken into custody, but upon further investigation it was found that Boyd and M'Eoy were the aggressors, and they were arrested. They were brought up before the Eesident Magistrate at Eiverton, on Saturday, the sth May, when it was proved that they dragged Donovan out of the tent and inarltreated him outside. They were each fined £o and costs, or one month's imprisonment. We de,ire to correct a mistake which has crept into our report of the Provincial Council proceedings on Friday evening. In the statistical account by Mr Lumsden of industrial affairs in he East Eoad district, the total number of acres under cultivation, is stated as 200,000. This should be 20,339 acres. The aggregate number of acpes comprise d in the stations referred to, being 200,000. Also, in omission in reference to a question, affecting the Eaiiway Engineer claiming the award at the Bank of Otago. The Provincial Treasurer said, "Mr Marchant gave the Government due notice. He was there at the hour fixed." Practical effect is about to be given to the Panama Eoute mail service. The Euahine of . whose performances when running on a trial trip to the West Indies so much, has been said, is to start from Sydney on the 15th June, and will leave Wellington on the 24th of the same month arriving at Panama on the 21st. July j thus making the passage including all stoppages, in th,rfcy-six days. The Eaikora, a steamer in every way equal to tlie Euahine, will be the first outward eliip, leaving Panama on the 24th June, and Wellington on 23rd July, and arriving in Sydney on 30th Juiy : also making the passage in thirty, six days. We cannot but hail with pleasure this proof of the determination of the company to act up to the spirit of their contracts and relieve this and the neighboring colonies from the constant disappointment entailed upon them by the P. and O. Co. A meeting is proposed at Melbourne, to consider the subject of tlie mail services, and in commenting upon it, one of the journals says that no matter how much opposed this colony, Ifew South Wales and Queensland might be to the Suez line, they would tdtimately have to join in it. We believe, on the other hand, that ere the Panama line has been opened a year, all the Pacific colonies will be glad to pay their subsidies to it. The revenue of Canada, for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1865, amounted to 5,585,898 dols. Of this amount the sum of 3,476,243 dols was raised by Customs duties. The expenditure, in the second half of 1865, being 4,386,672 dols, the half-year gives a surplus of 1, 198, 226 dols. A match- at billiards, says the Wellington Advertiser, for £20 a side, was played recently at Miller's Hotel, between Moore, the marker for the billiard-room, in which the match was played, and King, a player from Hokitika. The gamo was 500 up, and Moore gave the stranger 50. After a spirited contest of nearly three hours, the game ended in favor of King . by 47. ' The room was crowded, and a good deal of money changed hands on the event. Some time ago we noticed the very favorable report of the Directors of the Invercargill Savings' Bank for the first year of its operation to 31st December, 1865, showing a progressive increase of its deposits from month to month. We. are happy to hear that tliis valuable institution continues to prosper, and that at the end of last month the deposits amounted to £4019 14s lid. This is encouraging to all concerned. By the arrival of the " Alhambra," we are in receipt of the files ef the Argus, to the 30tS of May. The late crisis had terminated. The Tariff and Gold duty reduction bill, and the supplies Have been passed. The Legislative Council has undertaken to reform itself, and appointed a select committee to report upon the most- desirable means of doing so. ' Sir Charles Darling has been suspended, and General Carey appointed interim Governor. Sir Charles has vacated his office under a strong protest. Great excitement prevails, and public meetings have been held, and others organised to sympathise with the ex-Governor, and denounce the conduct of the Secretary of State for the Colonies: Dr Beihey, who was committed on a charge of causing the death "of a woman, who he was attending; professionally, by malpractice} has commenced, but had not concluded when the Alhambra left. Commercial and other items of aewß wilbe. fwnd be^yr; ' .'