FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1867.

Southland Times, Issue 665, 3 May 1867, Page 2

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1867.

It will be seen from our advertising columns that' a meeting of the Committee of the Acclimatization Society iB to be held on Saturday (tomorrow) at three o'olook. As business of importance is to be discussed, we trust members will make an effort to secure a full meeting. * The Wesleyans and their friends held a sooial tea-meeting in their place of worship last evening, for the purpose of according a welcome to the Rev Mr Bunn, the minister who has been appointed by the Conference to succeed the Rev Mr Shaw in Invercargill, and who has just recently arrived from Nelson. The chapel was well filled by an audience which seemed to feel itself thoroughly comfortable. After tea (which, by the way, was, first-rate) and the singing of a hymn, the chairman, Wm. Russell, Esq., in a few remarks introduced Mr Bunn, who was most cordially received bj the meeting, which he addressed at considerable length. Mr Perkins, Mr Burns, and several other gentlemen followed. Altogether, the meeting was a decidedly sooial one, and must have been highly gratifying to Mr and Mrs Bunn. We purpose in a future issue to give a fuller report. The "Ceylon Times" has the following conoerning the reported murder of Dr Livingstone : —We deeply regret to learn from an up-country correspondent the death of the celebrated African explorer and missionary, Dr Livingstone, who, it appears, was assassinated by the natives in the neighborhood of Lake Nyanza. No particulars have reached us, and the above brief intelligence came to hand by the last Mauritius mail in the postscript to a letter, whore the news is mentioned as having been just received by the Governor from Dr Kirk, of Zanzibar, who vouched for the truth of it. This may account for no mention of the intelligence being in any of the newspapers from Port Louis. " The circumstantial nature of the statement leaves little room," remarks the " Colombo "Observer," " we fear, to doubt the truth of the report ; and we suppose the name of Livingstone will now have to be added to the long roll of martyra of African research. The only hesitation we feel is from the fact that Bombay is bo intimately connected with Zanzibar, and intercourse bo frequent that the intelligence ought to have been received in the Western presidency." The "Canterbury Press," speaking of the tunnel on the proposed railway between Christchurch and Lyttelton, says :— The official report of progress at the tunnel up to March 31 showi that of the estimated length of_2B3&. yards, 2795 yards had been driven. As there remained only forty-three yards at the end of last month, we may feirly hope that both ends of the driving may meet by the middle of May at the latest. . The "Evening Star" of the 24th ult., says : — " Major Groker, (Warden of Tuapeka) and Messrs Thompson and Borton, Gold Receivers, have been dismissed, for refusing to recognise the orders of the Provincial Government in preferenoo to those of the Agent of the General Government. Mr Mackay, at Waitahuna, has not seceded. — ' Among the faithless faithful only he ' remains." A private letter, dated March sth, has been received in Ohristchurch from one of the principal firms in Port Louis, Mauritius. In a postscript the writer says : — " The fever, which broke out here in January, has of late assumed rather alarming features. All establishments are shorthanded from deaths and sickness — the dock and lighterage establishments so much ' so that anything like work ia impracticable. Trade is paralysed, and no one can Bay whether we have seen the worst. Yesterday the deaths . in Port Louis alone were 71, the average mortality being 11. In consequence of their being no funds at the disposal of the City Council of Dunedin, nor a likelihood of there being such, to defray existing expenses, the following resolution was proposed, seconded, and carried, at an Emergency Meeting held on the 27th ult. :— "That the services of the Town Clerk and all other officials, in* eluding the ordinary workmen, now in tho employment of the Corporation of Dunedin, be dispensed with, the Town Clerk and officials receiving one month's notice from the 80th day of April instant, the workmen's time to terminate on Saturday, the 27th instant." The following telegram was received from Wellington by the " Dunedin Star" on the 26fch ult. : — "The "Advertiser," the Government organ, says that Mr Bradshawhas not been appointed Minister for Mines at a salary of one thonsand pounds per annum. He is simply an agent for the Go. vernment at six hundred a-year, and none of the powers of the Governor are delegated to him* Your prompt action in Otago has told well # Stafford's organ closes thus : — ' The Dunedin people suppose rightly that the appointment was not given to the Superintendent, because the holder of that office was Macandrew. But let the Dunedin people remember this, that though they may be led away into making choice of a chief Magistrate with such antecedents as their present Superintendent, the General Government of the colony are not bound to repose that confidence in him which they have done. The Otago people made their choice, and must take the consequence^. They must not expect to see any of the powers ordinarily delegated by the Governor to Superintendents given to, Macandrew, and must expect that the other parts of the colony will endorse' the decision of the Government on this point. We do not intend to rake up old complaints, made with too good a foundation against Macandrew, but we may say that more recent investigations have only tended to confirm the opinion of the Government, that where the delegation of power is necessary, it is wiser to give it to some other person.' " The following particulars of the accident by which Captain Junor lost his life, are given by the " Wellington Advertiser " : — '•' On Gocd Friday last;, a pleasure-party, consisting of Messrs Galloway, Guy, and Bruce, of Pieton, Mi' Crayiner, of Dunedin, and Captain Junor, of Invercargill, Adjutant and Inspector of Musketry, went out in the yacht Fairy on a fishing excursion. When about three-quarters of a mile from the wharf, and off the neck of land dividing the harbour from Shakespeare's Bay, a sudden squall caught the boat and laid her on her beam- ends. Mr Guy, iyho was steering, let go the main sheet but in the excitement of tue moment, the head sheetß were not let go, consequently . the boat capsized, fijled, and went down. W]B regret;

was seen of Captain Junor. The remainder of the party were most providentially rescued by. Mr Duncan of the Grove, who was fortunately passing at the time, and there is not the least doubt that the whole of the party would have met with a watery grave but for his timely aid. All Friday and Saturday volunteers were dragging for the body, but without success. The only articles found belonging to the deceased were his hat and riding whip; and whilst Mr Duncan's boat was over the spot where the yacht sank, one ten and two five pound notes were found floating on the water, likewise belonging to the unfortunate gentleman. It was ajb first supposed that the deceased might have been carried down in the boat, but when, after great exertion, the yacht was got up, nothing was found in her."