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Southland Times, Issue 562, 17 September 1866, Page 2

From Queensland papers we learn that the opposition displayed by the Governor, Sir George Bowon, to the Ministry in their attempt, as a temporary expedient, to relieve the monetary difficulties that had arisen' by the issue of Treasury bonds, has called forth the extreme indignation of the people j that demonstrative meetings have been held, and threats of burning down the Government House freely indulged in,and at one time great fears were entertained that such would be dene. Macalister has resumed 'office, and therefore it is understood that the Governor has given in to his former Executive, and will sanction their proposals, and the Treasury Bills will be issued. Prom ourj last Melbourne files we glean that the West Coast of New Zealand is now esteemed a favored spot, and numbers of miners and others are leaving Victoria for Jthat locality. The Victorian Parliament has been prorogued to the 2nd October ; the proprietors of . the " Argus" have determined, if possible, to intercept the Panama Mail, and have the first news, and to thiß end they are building a swift boat; Victoria and New South Wales are again at loggerheads about the border duties : the deposits in the Victorian Bants are stated to amount to about nine millions ; his Excellency the Governor of Victoria, opened the Ballarat Industrial Exhibition, and delivered a popular address. The Gipps Land Gold-fields are still in the ascendent, the Hope Company, at Wood's Point, it is stated, have struck a lead, three feet thick, that is estimated to yield two thousand ounces of gold to the ton. From a communication received, we learn that the Canterbury people have initiated an InterProvincial Rowing Match, in which they invite the co-operation of all the Provinces. The first match will take place at Heathcote, on the 17th December, the anniversary day of the settlement of Canterbury, and competitors from all parts of New Zealand are solicited to join in the sport. We are in receipt of the " Daily Times," of the 14th inst. A special meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce .was held on Thursday, the 13th August, to consider the subjects mentioned in a telegram received from W. H. Reynolds, M.H.R. The meeting adopted a resolution in favor of the repeal of the existing insolvency law, with a view to the passing of a new Bill ; also one against stamp duties! There is no other items of immediate interest. We have also our files of papers from the West Coast to the 13th. September, the news, however, is unimportant, the only item of interest being that the bar was again impassable, owing to a westerly sea which sent a high surf home upon the beach. The Auckland correspondent of the " Sydney Morning Herald, a gentleman that is in the confidence of the Governor of New Zealand, and the leading politicians of the North, writes under date, 10th August, from which may be gathered sufficient to show that the Provincial Land Revenue as well as the customs, are in danger. He says: — "The Separation resolutions were rejected by a great majority, although, eight Otago and three Canterbury members supported them, and the question is partially shelved for the session ; it is by no means dead, however, and the feeling of exasperation in this province may perhaps be worked up to a pitch calculated to force on the measure hereafter. The whole secret of the position is a very simple matter after all. It is merely this. The southern island is a great pastoral country, where men grow rich in a few years by growing "wool. Tha northern island is nearly all agricultural, that if, men have to plough and' sow^their {land before they get grass to feed sheep or cattle. As a natural consequence the men in the South are prepared to purchase great tracts of grassy country, and the annual revenue from this source in the South has for some years been from £500,000 to £750,000. The northern island has had no such revenue. Auckland has given her land away to immigrants. Taranaki has sold none, and Wellington and Hawke's Bay — the two remaining provinces— have not, on an average, sold £50,000 worth of land in a year. Hitherto the provinces of the South have clung to all this land revenue, and all the debts of the colony have depended on the , Customs' revenue alone for payment. The time has now come when the Customs' revenue has been strained as ' far as it will go, and it is clear that any further war charges must fail on the land revenue — in other words, on the provincial revenues of the Southern island. As separation has been opposed by the South, so now the North will oppose any scheme for securing the hind revenues to the provinces, and this; if carried out systematically, must make things wear a very different aspeot from what they now wear." A curious Press trial has just taken place at Berlin. On the occasion of the'baptism of Prince Frederick Charles's son, then five weeks old, the Kreus Zeittmg published an article relating the part which each personage took in the solemnity. In reply the Bourse Gazette spoke more especially of "the conduct of baby," demanding if it had been equal to the occasion so ably described by the other journal. The Gazette was in consequence seized; the tribunal admitted the plea of the Public Minister against the liberal newspaper "for an insult committed against a member of the Royal family." The defendant demanded that doctors should be summoned to attend and decide if an infant of five weeks old, although a prince, could be considered as a personage, and as having pursued any " conduct." The tribunal finally pronounced an acquittal, though blaming the defendant for his disregard of propriety. In Dunedin considerable political excitement has been evoked, in opposition to the General Government policy, public meetings have been held and strong speeches delivered. The Mayo? of the city at a council meeting held on the 12th inst.—" reported that, a public meeting had been held at the Princess Theatre, when a Committee was appointed. On the following day, the Committee met, and'it was resolved to form an Association, to be called, " The Otago Association, for watching over and promoting the prosperity of the various interests of the Province." He was requested td~ communicate with the Mayors of the ■ other Municipalities, informing them of what had been, done, and asking their co-operations."

Dr Hector has been elected a Fellow of the Boya! Society. The "Standard" of June 14th. cjntamed the following; — "The Royal Sociey held their annual ms -ting on Thursday, for the election of fellows, when the following candidates fc met with that distinguished honor : — Jol n Charles Sucknil, M.D., Rev. Frederick William Farrar, William Augustus Gruy, M.8., James Hector, M.D., John William Kaye, Esq., Hugo fuller, Ph. D., Oharles Murchison, M.D , William Henry Perkins, Esq., the Yen. John Henry Pratt, M.A., Captain G-eorge Herry Richards, -R.IST., Thomas Richardson, Esq., M.A., William Hemy Leighton .Russell, Esq., Rev. William Selwyn, D.D., Rev. Richard Townsend, IT. A., Henry Watt, B.A. Sir John Peter Grant, KC.B,, who has been appointed to the Governorship of Jamaica, was born in 1807, and was educated at Eton and at the Old East India College at Hailebury. He entered the East India Service in 1826, and after passing with credit through various subordinate posts in the Financial Department, he Succeeded to other official positions, until he becam c Lieutenant-G-overnor of Bengal. This latter post he held during the time of the Indian mutiny. In 1862 he was made a X.C.8., Civil Division. Mr Henry Irving, private secretary to Mr Card- ' •well, has been appointed Colonial Secretary in i Jamaica. * The Melbourne Age says : — " A fracas at one of the rehearsals of the opera company gave rise to an action in the County Court, on Friday, the defendant in the case being Mr W. S. Lyster, and the plaintiff a member of the chorus, named Bachrach, who charged Mr Lyster with an assault, laying his damages at £50. Bachrach's statement was that, while the company were rehearsing an opera, on 27th of June last, he happened to make some little observation to another member of the chorus, named Thomson, which STiebel, a third of their number remarking, took to be come reflections upon himself, and assaulted plaintiff, who, while defendiug himself, ■sras set upon by Mr Lyster, and severely chastised with a stick, which was broken about his head and back. He immediately left the theatre, and an apology being refused, he brought the present action. Mr Lyster however got off, as on evidence being tendered it appeared the asiault had been committed during a general melee. The Pall Mall Gazette, in a recent number says that the Tallet thinks it necessary to meet point-blank, by extract from the Weeklg Register \ Mr Whalley's statement that the New Zealand war was due to the efforts of the Romaa Catholic priests. On the contrary, the change from mismanagement and indecision (so fatal in dealing with savages) to a better policy dates from the Premiership of the Romanist Mr Weld. To him, just a year ago, Father Lampila wrote in very strong terms, showing him that " moral suasion" will not do for Maoris, that correction and repression are the only way of dealing with them, and that the Hau-haus will never yield till their s trongholds are broken np and Te TJa taken or HUed. In fact, the Father, fearing apparently that Mr Weld might walk in the " conciliation " path of his predecessors, put his duty before him (more TLomano) in good round terms. Of course the Tablet does not claim the change from Cameron to Chute as a result of Father Lampila's advice ; but still, now that Te TJa has given himself up, and his friends in all directions are suing for mercy, it is able to point out that things have been going on well ever since the Romanist missionary's advice has been acted on, just as they went from bad to worse so long as the counsels of the Aborigines Protection Society were in the accendant. I