The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1867.

Southland Times, Issue 638, 1 March 1867, Page 2

The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1867.

Pressure on our space, occasioned by the arrival of the English mail, compels us to hold over leader, local matter, correspondence, &c. The train was on the point of departure from ■ the Bluff just as the steamer Airedale came in sight. As soon as the station master, Mr Nichol, I learned that the English mail was on board that vessel he delayed the train nearly half-an-hour. By this means the mercantile and general public i were placed in possession of their letters last evening. The railway authorities are deserving of praise for their prompt attention to the public i requirements. | The Hospital movement is proerressing. We ! learn that the public feeling is decidedly in favor of the proposed change in the management, and that liberal offers of support have been tendered to members of the Committee. One member we are informed, obtained yesterday promises of donations of about £40, and many annual subscribers of £1 and upwards. It is to be hoped that this second effort to make the Provincial Hospital a popular institution will be crowned with succees, and that it will receive the support of every class in the Province. The preparations ior giving the Governor a hearty welcome are progressing apace. The Decoration Committee are working with energy ; between two and three hundred ball tickets we understand, have been circulated ; the country districts are in a state of excitement, and no stone will be left unturned to render His Excellency's reception a complete success. It would be folly to predict the exact date of the Governor's arrival, but in all probability he will be amongst us by the latter end of next week. There is nothing in the news from the North, to give the slightest foundation to the Otago reports that there is a possibility that he will not visit Southland. We think we are justified in Saying that he will come, and that quickly. Let us be prepared to receive him. We have been requested to call attention to an advertisement in our other columns, announcing the sale of two casks of wine, under the Customs Regulations. The sale takes place this day, at noon, at J. Eoss & Co.'s Bonded Stores. Mr Munro is the auctioneer. The programme of the performances at the Theatre Royal to-night is a very attractive one, affording, as it does, scope for the display of the best talents of the various members of the company. The curtain rises to Courtney's favorite domestic drama, " Time tries All," which is followed by " Hunting a Turtle," a screaming farce. We notice that our highly popular local amateur, !Mr Wotton, appears in both pieces. In the interval between the plays, Mr C. Searle sings, for the first time here, the characteristic comic song, " Quite Colonial." In the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Mr Justice Richmond delivered judgment In re William John Dyer, an insolvent. His Honor said: — "If any amount of assurance could entitle a man to his final order of discharge, the present insolvent, having no want of that.quality, would be so entitled. In considering whether the insolvent had committed a iraud on the opposing creditor, he (the Judge) could not find whether the Bank (Commercial Bank of New | Zealand) had kept its engagement with the insolvent. But the insolvent knew that he had assigned all his crop, &c, to the Bank, and so he well knew that they were the property of the Bank; nevertheless, he disposed of them, and applied the proceeds to his own purposes, speculative or otherwise. It would have been a less wrong had he applied the proceeds to paying the other creditors, which he did not do. The final order must be suspended for three months from the present date. The Hobart Town "Mercury" of the .6th instant, says : — " We are gratified to learn from residents on the Plenty River that for three or four miles above Redlands, brown trout of con-

siderable Bize are frequently seen in numbers. The success of the experiment as regards those fish is now beyond all question, and in a very short time we may hope to hare them swarming in all the rivers of Tasmania." At periodic internals reports find their way into the columns of the agricultural press of Great Britain that the guana deposits of Peru are becoming exhausted ; and that a year or so will find the soil of the Chinchas as bare of guano as their once formidable rival the Isle of Ichaboe. We have the following on the authority of a correspondent of- the " Panama Star," who, writing from the Chinckas, says :— " The shipping . here averages about ninety sail, and guano is disappearing so fast that another two and a-half or three years at most will probably find the Chinchas deserted and guanoless— once again the necropolis for seals and aquatic birds that frequent the Pacific Seas." The"Otage Witness " of Saturday the 23rd ( insti, understood " that His Excellency intended to leave Dunedin that day for Oamaru, stopping to breakfest at Waikouaiti and lunch at Hampden. He proceeds from Oamaru to the Wanaka, and thenoe to the Wakatip and Dunstan. This is as far as is yet determined. His Excellency will not linger on the way, as affairs in the North make him' desirous soon to return. It is not even certain that he will visit Southland. The party will include in all about ten, and will be conveyed in two or three coaches. Advices to the effect stated have already been sent to the various places on the line of route."