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Southland Times, Issue 649, 27 March 1867, Page 2

We notice that our advertising columns contun announcements of an unusual number of extensive auction sales, to take place within the next few days. Eeferencc to our " Abstract of Sales by Auction" will show at a glance the order in which they occur, but for the convenience of our readers we subjoin a short summary of them. Mr Todd will sell at Sutherland's yards, Bridge Inn, this day, fat and store cattle, dairy cows, calves, &c. To-morrow (Thursday), Messrs 0. A. Boss, and Co., will sell the whole of the household furniture of 0. N. Campbell, Esq., at his residence, near Appleby ; and on Friday, at their Rooms, Dee-Street, some very handsome office furniture ; also a large collection of canaries cages, aviary, poultry, (including fancy varieties), rabbits, ferrets, &c. On the same day Mr Todd will hold a sale of cattle at Wallacetown, for which a considerable mob have been entered. At noon of the same day (Friday) Mr Munro will offer for 6ale, without reserve, the Prince of Wales Hotel and dwelling house adjoining. At 2 o'clock, Messrs Driver, McLean & Co. sell at Dunedin, the goodwill of Pastoral Leases, over about 250,000, acres of good country, in the neighborhood of the Lake ; and at 3 o'clock, Messrs M'Landress, and Hepburn, also sell at Dunedin, 40,000 acres of Pastoral Land, adjoining the Five Bivers run ; including upwards of 5,000 acres of freehold; and a flock of 15,000 sheep. On Saturday, the 30th, Mr Munro holds his usual weekly Horse Sale at the Albion Yards.— Mr Todd will offer at his rooms, Eraser's Eartfßoad tramway, and general merchandise j and on tfte Wednesday following,

at Athol, the accommodation-house, known as the Jolly Waggoners, together with stock, furniture, about 50 acres freehold land in cultivation horses, pigs, poultry, &c. ' It is -with regret wo learn that the Her. Mr. Shaw, for some year's resident in Southland as pastor of the Wesleyan body, intends shortly to leave th* Province for the West Coast, having recently been appointed to Greymduth. During ! the time this gentleman has been amongst us he i has endeared himself to all classes by his true j Christian piety, unassuming manners, and benevolent disposition. At all times open to the voice of charity and distress, to alleviate which his untiring exertions have been constantly crowned with success, hiß absence will be keenly felt by many, and regretted by all. The public meeting held at the "Council Chamber laßtnight, relative to the transference of the management of the Hospital from the Government to a committee elected by contributors, and for the election of said committee, waß, owing to the inclemency of the weather, but thinly attended. Dr Menzies was elected to the chair. We are compelled to hold over our report until next issue. ■ A monster turnip, weighing nearly 18 lbs, has been sent to our office. It was grown on the farm of Mr M'Crostie, Kosslyn Bush, and speaks —11 •*» ft.o i«W" — *— ■ «* «• :> i - < - 1 -~\ locality. , ■ .The "Nelson Evening Mail" says :— "We. understand that that pet prisoner, Sullivan, has kicked up hiß heels in gaol at last, and has been put in irons. The wonder is, not that this has been found necessary, but that the gaol officials were not obliged to resort to irons before. The fellow has been made too much of, and has, as a matter of course, become so bounceable that there is no dealing with him by ordinary means. We are told that he refused to obey orders, squared away in right pugilistic style, threatened to knock the warders into smithreens, and was not reduced to obedience without considerable violence." In a later date the same journal remarks : — " The murderer Sullivan has at length found hia place in the "Nelson gang. He may be seen daily marching to and fro with his fellow convicts, and working with them in the city works. He looks well, and assumes a buoyant air that is not supposed to belong to great crinrnals. It is an instalment of justice to the community which he has outraged that he is at length compelled to toil like other convicts before receiving the prison rations." The Buller correspondent of the "Westport Times " says that Dr Hector, wbHst crossing the Waimangora, met with an accident whilst stepping from boulder to boulder, which caused dislocation of the shoulder. Only a week or two ago, wb?lst on his previous tour, the same dislocation first occurred, and it was not thoroughly recovered before the second arose. We understand that, from representations from the Provincial Government, the General Government has consented to hand over the pastoral rents to the Provincial Treasury, less the amount of interest on the sum of £40,000, some time since advanced to the Province. The net proceeds, after deducting this item, will be about £6500 per annum. The following items of mining intelligence is taken from the Wakatip Mail : — " Our week's news under this head may be almost said to be comprised in our correspondent's letter, below, A heavy rainfall took place on Saturday night and Sunday morning last, by which a fresh was occasioned in the streams. Since then the water BU pplv has again dwindled down to a minimum. The Bprings in the mountains seem so thoroughly exhausted that nothing less than about twentyfour hours good rain will ensure anything like a permanent supply for effective mining purposes. A correspondent writing from Skippers, March 11th, says: — "In mining matters I have to report an improvement ; the late rains have given a better supply of water for crushing and sluicing purposes. Messrs Southberg and Co having completed the erection of their machinery and started the whole sixteen head to-day. It works very smoothly, and reflects great credit on the company, who erected it themselves. The. spoedit iB going at present is about fifty-eight strokes per minute, there being scarcely enough water to drive the whole at full speed. At the Scandinavian things are beiug pushed ahead, the new tramway being finished and at work. A large paddock to hold the stone at th« machinehouse is also made, and the new tunnel to take the stone from the paddock to the machine is completed. The whole of the rails are Uid with iron plates, over which the trucks run well — one of them, carrying as much as twenty-five hundred weight, can be propelled with little exertion after being started. They expect to commence crushing y-i about a fortnight.