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Southland Times, Issue 726, 20 September 1867, Page 6

The special correspondent of the " Canterbury Press," in a letter describing the results of the debate on Mr Vogel' s motion, in the Hou se of Assembly, for a Committee to enquire into the financial condition of the Colony, and the Government's amendment thereon says : — " Certain it is that the Opposition is not that compact body which Dr Featherston boasted it was. Mr Yogel is deserted by his party, and he knows it j and the Government have only to use ordinary discretion and display something like a firm front, and they will have the support of all moderate men, and need not fear the efforts of Featherston, Yogel, Macandrew and Co., to unseat. theni." The following appeared some time ago upon the house of a colored man _in Philadelphia : — "Peter Brown, porter and waiter. N.B. Attends to funerals, dinner partiea, aad other- practical occasions,"

The ''Lake Wakatip Mail " gives the following satisfactory ..account of gold mining _ operations in the district: — "With fine weather, mining operations are being renewed with vigor. The Boatswain's claim, Twelve-Mile (Lake), continues to yield splendidly, and the gold is increasing in coarseness. At Tucker Beach, favorable piospects are also being obtained, and the news generally is cheering. Indeed, we have not seen, for a very long period, so much general confidence felt in mining matters, and especially amongst the sluice rs. The returns are steady and it is now safely demonstrated that steady wages are obtainable in nearly any portion of the district, and we trust to witness a steady increase to ;the population during the next six months. Large claims are the order of the day, and a plentiful supply of water will probably be obtainable during the whole of summer. In fact, mining} operations generally are being more! steajily and systematically pursued as a settled industry, than we ever before remember to have seen in the district. . Residence areas and substantial houses are dotting the various out^districts, and giving an air of permanency that should be re-assuring to alarmists. The Scandinavian Company, are crushing with fifteen heads of stamps, .and Southberg's have just completed some alterations to their machinery, and we believe their stampers are again going. It is stated that some of the quartz claims will be prospected by working parties of miners shortly." - ..