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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 4, 4 July 1866, Page 2

On Saturday, .Tune 30th, owing to the severe gale and high tide, the water «« on the cmbatikment .No. 1 of the Bluff Harbor and Im-txaarrrill Eailway, to the level of the rails. During the wholo of Sunday the sea broke over the enibankment,andby the continued wash, formed a gap in the earthwork of some forty feet in length. The planking and sheeting to the side of embankment next the sea, were not injured. The damage done was repaired on Monday by the contractors. It is to he regretted that a sea wall was not substituted for the timber protection used along the embankment. This portion of the line wiU be liable to similar injuries to those sustained on Sunday, during the variance of weather such as we have experienced for the last few days. We learn that there is abundanco of material for the ; construction of a sea waU, to be had at the Green j Hills. ' The Tararua from the North arrived on Monday (2nd July). The news brought is of no immediate importance. The overland mail from Dunedin has not yot arrived, and tiio Wakitip j mail did not reach here tiU late in the day. ! We understand th&t the roads in the country I j are in a fearful state j tlie rivers flooded, snow 1 deop, and severe weather being experienced. The Waldfcip coach ou ita last journey from ttfvercargUl could uot reach its 'destination, owing ta th-s • flooded state of tho rivers, and the- mails wero foj?_ ■warded by. horic-cxprosa ; tho -, ssnme .wa? c*'., pcrionoad in ths , down maii,~-th6 : ' mailman unp . .; had to abandon tha coach, and pnttho in^ils.'pn • j hoyaebaok, 9>ad ttftß*wr#s £o -"wull? 'pr-: &,»*•■. of I he ?o«4 Slfc^s,- ; ■-' \ '

Yesterday (Tuesday) the five beU pealed forth I its warning tones about four o'clock in the after- j noon, occasioned, it would appear by the catching fire of a chimney on the premises of Mr. Robertson, of the Three BeUs Hotel, in Tay-street. In a short time, however, the fire was extinguished We feel it our duty to notice the circumstance trifling as it may appear, not only as an instance of the alacrity of the Fire Brigade, a large number of which body was promptly on the spot, but as a warning to the inhabitants of the city to look to the state of their chimnies. In order to give a fuU account of the demonstration upon the opening of the Panama MaU line of communication between New Zealand, America, and Europe, we are compelled to hold over leading and other matter. We yesterday (Tuesday, 2nd June), inspected the worka at the InvercargiU RaUway Station. The progress being made is highly satisfactory, and the work substantial and good. The goodsshed, the engine-room, store-room, weU, tanks, &c, are nearly completed, and notwithstanding th? unfovorable state of the weather for work, we understand that in about two weeks the line wUI be completed. The Drawing-room Entertainment to be hold in the Theatre,, on Thursday, is expected to be a great success ; nearly all the tickets have been sold, and the programme is of a most attractive character. Tho few tickets on hand are for salo at the various booksellers of the city. The foUowing is the state of H.M. Gaol for the week ending Tuesday, the 3rd instant. Sentenced to penal servitude, 6 males ; sentenced to hard labor, 7 males and 1 female. Lunatics, 5 males and 1 female. Debtors, 2 males. Total, 20 males and 2 females. Received during the week, 1 male. Discharged during the week, 3 males. Decrease for tlie week, 2 males. The meeting for the election of office-bearers for the newly-established Literary Sociiety will be held in the school-room, Dee-street, this evening, at half-past seven o'clock. The monthly meeting of the Cha mber of Commerce is caUed for this day, • Wed nesday, 4th July, at 3 o'clock. Important business wUI be brought forward, and it is to be hoped that aU the members will make it a duty to attend. A meeting of the Licensed Victualet-s was held on Monday (2nd July), to consider tlie steps tobe taken in order to protect that body from the competition of iUcgitimate traders. The subject having been discussed, it was resolved that a deputation should be appointed to wait upon his Honor the Superintendent, to point out the injustice to the parties who had expended large sums in providing accommodation for aU classes, and who pay a heavy license fee, and were liable to police inspection, and compelled to keep stipulated hours, should not be protected against the illegitimate trader, who has no restriction, no license fee, and no police interference. A deputation consisting of Messrs Livesey, Jones, Colyer and Wilkinson, was appointed to wait upon his Honor the Superintendent, to point oufc the evUs of which they complained. In the absence of his Honor the Superintendent, the deputation was received by the Provincial Treasurer, who went carefully into the question, and expressed an opinion that the evil was great, and the subject would receive the serious attention of the Government. The deputation, having thanked Mr. Blacklock for the graceful reception they had received, then retired. 'The Resident Magistrate was occupied the whole of Monday (June 2nd), in investigation of a claim made by the master of the Black Watch against the master of the Marion Renny, for damage done to the former vessel during the late severe weather. The two vessels were alongside each other at the end of the jetty, and on the night of the 29th inst., the Black Watch, being budt of kauri pine, received a severe rubbing from the fenders placed between the vessels. After a great number of witnesses had been examined the Resident Magistrate decided in favor of defendant, with costs. The strong gale which has prevaUed for the last few days has not yet altogether passed, the sky stUl looks dark and threatening, although during the early part of Monday (2nd June) the intense cold which had previously been experienced, was considerably meUowed, and the sun occaaionaUv peeped through a break in the clouds, giving hopes thafc tho storm had passed. The night, however, showed that the weather had not settled that the gale has not yefc spent itself oufc. It is satisfactory to be able to state that during the gale which has been blowing for some time, the shipping afc the Bluif has received no injury, and that all fche damage done to ships afc the Invercargill port is of very triflin__ account ; the only instance of which we have heard, being the chafing of the sides of tho Black Watch, by the rolling of the Marian Renney, both of which vessels are at the InvercargUl jetty. Speaking of military matters, the Wanganui Times oii the 19fch June says : — H.M. 14th Regiment, stationed here, received orders to be in readiness to proceed to Wellington by the 30th. instant, but the order has beeu countermandedIt is expected that the Governor and General Chute wiii visit Wanganui, and proceed up the river as far as Pipiriki, to hold a conference with the Hau-haus there, before any more troops leave Wanganui. This, however, has nothing to do with the departure Q f the troops for England. Those destined for home wUI bo doapatched from the colony as fast as transport can be obtained ior them, but is nofc so easy to obtain suitable vessels here as the home authorities seem to imagine, as gathered from fche tenor of the red hot haste of Mr CardweiPs recent despatches. An extensive joint-stock company has been established in Melbourne. The Age says : — " The capital of the Australasian Woollen lIUI Company, which proposes to manufacture tweeds, shirtings, &c, by steam power, is to be £50,000, and tbe provisional directory includes the name 3 of some of the loading merchants of Melbourne, and also some gentlemen connected with wool- I growing and wool-brokering interests. It is es- * timated that ths sum of £36,000 will cover all the j cost of machinery, land, building, plant, freight, and other preliminary expenses j and that the miilwUl wiU afford employment to 550 porsone— ■ men, women, and children. A mill on the scale proposed would consume fourteen bales or 6.000 lb., wool weekly, which would produce 12,000 yards shirting, or 8,000 yards of tweeds, and iti/ calculated that tho not profit thereon would aye* | r«go £280 weekly." The Sydney Mail, of tho Rth June, gives the ; . following accouut of tho finding of fche gold taken ■gfPvlie Rarwon, ftom HokUjkn ,--- "It will bein the recollection of om* reaclcv* thiit on I'Uesday. 1.!.",.* XQth A -pil \ssb, w e^teni-iv-v jqlifeej^ of gpk), I

was found to have been committed on board the Barwon on her voyage from Hokitika to this colony. The Barwon, under the command of Capt. Lowrie, arrived at the Commercial Wharf on Monday evening, 9fch AprU, having brought to Sydney 23,160 ounces of gold — 11,000 ounces of which were consigned to the Bauk of New South Wales, the remainder to the .Oriental Bank. On the foUowing morning whUst the gold was being removed from on board, it was discovered that one of the boxes, containing 1000 ounces, consigned to the Bank of New South Wales, was missing. Suspicion fell upon three persons — Charles Nixon, steward; WUUam Smith, assistant-steward ; and_ Margeret Daniels, stewardess ; who were charged at the Central Pohce Court with having com - mitted the robbery, and, affcer several remands, Smith and Daniels were committed for trial, Nixon being discharged. At the late sittings of the Criminal Court, a postponement of the trial was granted ■ and on Tuesday, May 29fch, Detective Bowden was despatched to New Zealaud to procure additional evidence and information. About three o'clock on the Thursday afternoon, such information was giveu at the Detective olfice as led to a search being made upon the Queensland Company's Wharf by Detective Elliott, who succeeded in finding the gold buried but a few inches below the surface of the earth, in the angle formed by the fence and the Custom House officer's box, and not far from where the Barwon lay. The gold was found deposited in the original bags, some of which, however, had decayed, and tho gold was mixed with the soU ; both soU and gold were carefully placed in tubs and removed to the Detective Office, where it wiU be crashed and weighed. Ifc is believed that the whole of the gold has been discovered. Strange to say, the day after the robbery was discovered Detectives Elliot and Bowden were engaged searching on the other side of the fence which separates the Queensland Company's Wharf from the Commercial Wharf, and within a few inches from the spot where the gold has been found. The ground where gold was found buried consists of loose coal screenings, which are easily turned over and trampled down again without making much show, and this will partly account for the spot not having been detected before." By a Governor's order in tho "New Zealand Gazette " of June 23rd, the order of May 7th, de " daring the Port of Molyneux no longer a port of Entry, under the Customs Regulations, is "rescinded, and the Port of Molyneux is declared to extend from the mouth of the Puera River, along the Clutha River, and the Ocean Beach, as far as the boundary between Sections 6 and 7 of Block 7, South Molyneux, and including the spaces reserved for the Township of Molyneux. The New Zealaud Advertiser, 25 th Juno, says: — " Although the hews from home with respect to foreign affairs is far from satisfactory, there is one item in it, though nofc contained in the journals, which must be eminently assuring to tbe public of New Zealand, as indicating in how much more favorable a position the monetary affairs of this Colony are looked on than they have been for a long time. We allude to the sale by the Crown Agents of some more of our six por cent, bonds at ninety-two, an increased rate on what, has been previously realised. This, jin the face of the depression of the money market and the absolute panic which has reigned in London, cannot but bo mosfc satisfactory to colonists here."