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Southland Times, Issue 730, 30 September 1867, Page 2

A meeting of the members and subscribers to the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held in the Prince of Wales Hotel on Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of making arrangements relative to the forthcoming Grand Show. The meeting -wa3 largely attended, and business gone into with much spirit, but owing to the late hour to which it was protracted, we are anable to give particulars in this issue. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next. , We (" Grey River Argus," Sept. 12,) are glad to find that the Annexation Committee are pursuing their work with vigor. A sub-committee yesterday made a partial canvass of the Government township for subscriptions to defray the necessary expense of carrying out the otjjects of the movement, and in a short time" received the amount of £45. This is a very gratifying result and shows the Committee that the inhabitants of Qreymouth are thoroughly in earnest in their desire for Annexntion to the Nelson Province . The sum mentioned by no means represents the amount "which is expected to be raised in the G-overnment township, while the Maori township has not yet been asked to subscribe. This will probably be done to-day or to-morrow, and we anticipate that a sum equal to defray all the expenses of the movement will be subscribed without the slightest difficulty. We urge upon the Committee the necessity of proceeding earnestly with the work they have taken in hand, and allowing no " grasa to grow under their feet " until the Grey District is part and parcel of the

A correspondent of the " Sydney Morning J Herald," writes from Burke-town to the effect that communication between the G-ulf and other places by sea is insufficient for the wants of that newly formed settlement. He says "it is two years since this township was formed, and we have never been properly supplied with goods — it is injuring the place very much, as the Flinders squatters prefer to send for their supplies to Cleveland Bay rather than send their drays to Burke-town, where there is little chance of loading. The place is not supplied with goods suitable for the market ; several drays Have now" been waiting here upwards of two months." He also gives tr-e following prices of goods : — " Common moleskin trousers, 18s. ; Crimean shirts, 255. ; brandy, £2 per gallon ; rum, 375. per gallon ; tweed trousers, 355. per pair ; regatta shirts, Bs. to 10s. per shirt by the dozen ; flour, £50 per ton for good, and £40 for damaged ; calico is not to be had, and timber is also scarce." He complains, too, of the want of a bank. With regard to the pastoral interest, he says : — " 20,000 sheep have arrived on the Leichhardt, and there is plenty of country to the south and westward not yet taken up j the lambing this season reached 85 per cent., and the clip promises well, though the wool is being shorn in grease for want of hands." At present there is no fever, and though goods, according to the statement of our correspondent are scarce, there is plenty of money, as £800 have been subscribed for the races. He thinks an enterprising man or company would do well by opening up a trade with Eatavia, Timor, and other places. The "New York Tribune," of the 9th* July contains the following notice of the death of the celebrated T. F. Meagher : — " General Thomas Feancis Meagher, Secretary and Acting- Governor of Montana Territory, fell from the deck of the steamer Thomson, at Fortßenton, on the 'evening of the Ist inst., and was drowned. He had been absent for the last fortnight on public business, and had succeeded in procuring arms for the troops engaged in the defenco of the Territory, and transacting other military business demanded by our present exigency. At the latest "accounts his remains had not been found, the darkness of the night, and the rapidity of the current, preventing any rescue. He was born at Waterfovd, Ireland, on the 3rd of August, 1823. At the early age of twenty-three he was regarded as one of the leaders of the "Young Ireland" party which seceded from the followers of O'Conuell. In 1848 he was one of the delegates sent to congratulate the French Sepublic. He took an active part in the movements of the Young Ireland party in 1848, was arrested, and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to banishment for life to Van Diemen's Land, from which he escaped, and landed in JSew York in May, 1852. He was received by his countrymen with great enthusiasm. In 1861 he raised [ a company and joined the 69th Regiment, New York State Militia, under General Corcoran. He acted as Major at Bull Run, and after the return of the Eegiment he raised a brigade and was ' commissioned a Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Feb. 3, 1862. In 1865 he was appointed Secretary of the Territory of Montana, and for some time has been its acting Governor."