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Southland Times, Issue 698, 19 July 1867, Page 1

A return of the! quantity of goM exported firomj^i New : Zealand during the ' quarter " ending 31s't 1° March, appears in the Gazette of iftel27th:Ult. . ,- The fbllowing,.are the quanitities sapped- at | Tr different ports :— Auckland, 7350z5. ;Mirlbor6ugh lo — Havelook, 3.26pz5/ ifelSon .ProVince— lfelsoiij ;~ ! 27040z5. Westpprt, 85706z5. . Greymouthj'^ 25,i>830z5. „ Hokitika, 28iQ6pz8. Canterbury V.i Province— Hokitika, 65,2420z5. ' G-reymouthi ''•*• 10,4170z5, Ofeago —^Dunedin, 21^186ozb. South- ' 9 land — Invercargillj 2160ozs : ; Bluff Harbor, 3ozs. The total quantities from the three Provinces'importing niost largely were— 39,36§pzs ' fiom' lJ Nelson ; 7?>,159 ozs from Canterbury • 314§60zs >Vi from. Otago.. Of the quantity exported from, i Danedin 10,2090zs wefe sent to Englaridi' 'and ' a 20,9720za to Victoria. The totafexpbrt of '^xe ""' , Colony I for the 7 quarter •wa5 ; 149,2326z5? and" &e x " total quantity since . 'the discovery of gold 3,208.6930z5, the figures for the; Provinces. being '- —Auckland 21,522 ozs, Marlboroughj.SSjiJSSozsj •;■;• Nelson, 332,1550z5; Canterbnry, 722y2240z5; Otago, 2,090,2286zs j Southland, 85796z51' ''\*-\ ': i 1 ; The. " Hobart Town Mercury "of the 7th irist., thtis refers" to what it pronounces to be a promiß-'i.' ing new industry :— " Tasmania has much need Of ■'•'• exports, and the discovery, of any novelty of th©^ "- 1 kind is always a public' benefit. We understand i that Colonel Chesney has been for some months'.'?,, occupied- in experiments for the extraction of '' illuminating and lubricating oils, from' a natural \ product of this country, and that the result of r "a •.'..• number of trials has been satisfactory. The great ->i? difficulty has been to reduce the specific gravity : ; of the fluid, and this problem has beensblved ]by '''t the adoption of a principle which is about to bo. •-:'•} patented and worked simultaneously in this • colony, and in Victoria." . : 8 The Southern Cross of the 17th inst., says irr-, ,'l It was lumored on Saturday last, that a gold-;!' field had been discovered in the prbvince^fche "<i locality being definitely fixed in this'instahce at '" Mercury Bay. We have been furnished with a V"* very circumstantial account of the proceedings which resulted in two bushmen finding 'the pre*' cipus irietal; but it will be sufficient'fbr the.pre- IT sent to. state . that the men were on their, way ,- from Mercury Bay to. Kennedy's Bay, arid shortly : I after leaving the first-named dis&ict, in -diggers' , l parlance "strubk goldi," The intelligence, .was. • r .. quickly, blazened about, and sawyers and bnsb> , a men were stated, fco ba leaving Coromandel and other places for the purpose of testing whether a i: ' payable gold-field could be found. The two dig- t coverers are said to have left for Auckland to t make known. the circumstances to His Honor the :'» Superintendentj but we have^ been unable to ' glean any intelligence qg their arrival, and, in -' their absence, it will be well to accept the news "- for what it is worth. ■■■:•-'. ■ * • ■■ni From the late Danedin papers, we learn that ? Mr- Switaer, who was oharged with having set flw to the premiaes ocoupied by tHfl'-Qtagp Boot and ', Si^oe Company, of which he was ; Msmager, tat '^ been triad during t&e recent 'criminal »ttis£ :'(^.' T ni the Supreme Cpurt, The trJW extended (Tfisf tf^ V