The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1867.

Southland Times, Issue 647, 22 March 1867, Page 2

The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1867.

Through pressure on our space last issue we were compeUed to condense our report of the Governor's Visit to Riverton. In another column •w_l be found a fuUer account of the proceedings on that occasion. For the same reason in this issue we must reserve our report of Wednesday evening and Thursday's proceedings until next pubUcation, when we purpose completing the journal of the Governor's visit. The planking at the entrance to the Waihopai Bridge on the InvereargUl side is out of repair, •nd dangerous. "To prevent an accident, as w&U as on the principle that a " stitch in time saves nine," we recommend that attention be paid to it. A somnambuUst in Auckland has had a most marveUous escape from death. The "N.Z. Herald" thus tells the story : — About 2 o'clock on tho 3rd instant, PoUey, the night watchmanj in going his rounds,in MfllsMaae, saw and heard a heavy body fall from one 'of the uppermost ■windows of the Victoria Hotel, Victoria-street, at the back, a height of between thirty and fortyfeet. He ran to the place, and found it to be a man undressed. He alarmed Mr MuUigan, and had him conveyed back to the hotel. Mr Commissioner Naughton and some of his men were soon on the spot, and Dr Hooper waß sent for, •who examined and pronounced that very little ifas wrong with him, only a sUght bruise on the right side, and that to aU appearance he would soon recovur. Any person who has seen the place may well marvel how he escaped instant death, especially as he feU upon roagh stones, old cases, and sharp pieces of corrugated iron, &c. He is a stout young man, named James Robinson, late of the Ist Waikatos, and has been waiting at the hotel for a vessel to take him to Lyttelton. He states that he went to bed quite sober, and was dreaming that he was unweU, and was on his way to consult a doctor, and went to the window, which happened to be open, thinking it was the door, and walked out. The Nelson " Evening MaU " has the following : — " We are informed, from a private source, that Mr Whitaker, the Superintendent of Auckland, had sent in his resignation of that office on Saturday last. It haß ior some time past been a matter of notoriety that Mr Whitaker has been ottered the permanent post of Attorney- General of the colony ; and it is probable that his resignation of the Superintendehtship is only the preliminary step to his acceptance of the other office." Judge Boothby has received a letter from the South AustraUan Government, informing bim that a commission has been issued to his Honor Judge Hanson, instructing him to preside at the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court.