The Southland Times. TUESDAY, JUNE 5,1866.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 274, 5 June 1866, Page 2

The Southland Times. TUESDAY, JUNE 5,1866.

We are requested by the Resident Surgeon of the prov-ncial Hospital to acknowledge the receipt of ia liberal contribution of magazines and periodicals from M* Rogers, bookseher, Dee-stveet. Jouraal*.sm in Westland would appear to be flourishing. In addition to the papers already inexistence others aye annoiinced to appear, and the Hokitika Chrb.ncle, a journal winch has great ipohtical independence and' commercial ente -prise, emerged on the Ist June from a biweekly to a tri-weekly publication. If we can iudge from the manner in which thu paper feas been conducted in the past it is destined to take a leading position as 'a West Coast journal. A correspondent of the John Bull makes the fohbwing excellent suggestion :— " AUow and invite aU Fenians to meet, armed, on a certain day upon the Curragh of KUdare, to choose a President of the Iriak RepubUc. The voting will commence on the first day, the fighting on the second day, and oa the third one Feniau wiU be left, who may then elect himself- President, and preside over himself." Tne Hokitika Chronicle, 23rd May, says: — " Under dates of the Sth and 19th inttant, Mr Warden Ref eU, of the Grey district, reports as foUows : — " During the past month there has been a very considerable decrease in the numbers of miners employed on the South Beach, princi. pally owing to the'new rushes up the Grey, and on the North Beach in the province of Nelson and their claims having been worked out. Extended claims have been granted on the South Beach to parties who intend to re-work the ground, having a good command of water for that purpose. New" ground is being openßd~on _ the low ranges between the Saltwater creek and the Teremakan; and Caid Brothers have cut a horse track from the head of the Saltwater creek, or New river to within one nule of Liverpool Bin's gully, in the Arnold district. Estimated population on the sth instant, 4700. ■In his speech, proroguing the Provmcial CouncU, the Suupef intendent of Nelson made the following remarks concerning the proposed raUway from Nelson to the Grey : — " I wiU immediately communicate with the General Government with the view of obtaining permission to offer .two' or three mUlion of acres of land to any company who may undertake the construction of a raUway connecting the ports of Nelson with the ports of the Buller and Grey. Without professing to be at aU sanguine that it wiU be possible to induce capitahsts to undertake tho work, I can unhesitatingly recommend the Government to sanction an exchange that would improve the security of the colonial creditor as much, as it would add to the real wealth and value of this Province, and if th e s anction df the General Assembly be obtained, it wiU be my duty to carry out your expressed wishes by laying the offer fuUy before the public without any unnecessary delay." The following item of mining intelhgence we extract from the Wakatip Mail,- 30th May :— " The Shotover has been very low lately, and a proof that the old river stUl retains some of those rich treasures for which she was famed of yore, it may be mentioned that the Rip -and-Tear Company, Sutherlands's Beach,' (consisting of six shareholders), divided for laSt week's work, clear of expenses, about £85 per man. Shareholders in this company for five or six weeks previous have been dividing their £30 and £-10 per man. This company, like the majority of them on the river, has been working qr shepherding for a long time past. Cranston and party, at the junction of Moke Creek, divided' last week 43 ozs. 6 dwts." We.cUp the following from the Grey River Jyrgus, — " Mr Batty, who was the first to open and work the seam of coal on the Gi*3y, has obtained the lease of a splendid seam of coal at Mohikinui, which he intends at 'once to work. The seam is about eight feet .thick, and the coal is of even superior quality to that on the Grey. The mine is situated about four inUes up the Mohikinui River, and vessels can proceed up to within a mUe and a half of it. Mr Batty is sanguine of the results of his new enterprise."