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Southland Times, Issue 744, 1 November 1867, Page 2

Pressure on our space, compells us to hold over till next issue a quantity of local and other matter. The Weekly Times, enlarged and illustrated, of the 2nd inst., (to-morrow,) will include the monthly summary of colonial news, politics, agricultural and commercial intelligence, &c, for transmission via Panama, and will be the second largest paper ever published in the province. It will contain no less than 10 pages. The barque Bengali, Jamieson master, arrived at the Bluff yesterday afternoon with a very valuable cargo of Sheep, Cattle, Horses, &c, from New South Wales. She has had a very swift and successful voyage, having been but twelve days from port to port, and lost only, we beleive, two cattle. The whole of the stock has arrived in excellent condition, and is a great acquisition to our province. They have been selected and im-r ported under the immediate personal supervision of Mr J. P. Wentworth, who has spared neither time, trouble nor expense in securing animals the best of then: class. The shipment comprises' about 130 sheep, 4 bulls, 110 pure Durham heifers, a team of working bullocks, about a dozen horses, besides a number of other animalt for acclimatization. By our other comma it will be observed that a very usefull publication is shortly to be issued by one of our Invercargill Stationers. We allude to the Southland Almanac, announced by Mr Rose as now in the press. It is worthy of note that this is the first attempt that has been made to issue an Almanac solely compiled for Southland. Previous ones have invariably been combined with matter of little or no moment to this province, thereby rendering the volume too bulky andexpensive for general use. As being of a strictly local . character, and yet sufficiently comprehensive to render it a very useful little book, it is to be hoped the publisher may meet with encouragement such as will induce him to continue it in future years. The following biographical sketch of Sir G. IT. Bowen, who is appointed to succeed His Excellency Sir George Grey, as Governor of the Colony, is taken from "Men of the Time": — "Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., the eldest son of the Rev. Edwd. Bowen, a beneficed clergyman in tho north of Ireland, was born in that country in 1821, and was educated at the Charter House and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship in 1849, and graduated B.A. as first-class in classics in 1844. In the same year he was elected to a Fellowship of Brasenose College, of which he became tutor. From 1847 to 1851 he held tho post of President of the University of Corfu. Whilst holding that position, ho severely impugned the administration of Lord Seaton, thsn Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and published one or more pamphlets attacking the policy of his measure?* He subsequently published, " Ithaca in 1850," "Mount Athos, Thessaly,. and Epirus," &c., whilst holding the office of Chief Secretary to the Government of the lonian Islands, between 1854 aud his retirement in 1859. He is also understood to be the author of " Murray's Handbook of Grecee." Sir George Bowen, who is an accomplished modern Greek scholar, and is married to a Prince^ of Greek birfh, mi appointed, in 1859, Captain-General an& Covernor-ra-Chief of Queensland, with aialwy

The General Government Gazette of Monday last contains a notice to the effect that James Dv Pre Lance, Esq., John Charles Watta Kussell» Esq., William Swainson Esq., and John ParMn Tayloi, Esq., haviug, for two successive sessions of the General Assembly, without the permission of Her Majesty, or of the Governor, signified by the Governor to the Legislative Couucil, failed to give their attendance in the said Legislative Council, their respective seats in snch Council have thereby become vacant. The JDunstan Times of the 25th inßtant, states that "several very impoitant changes will shortly be made in the distribution of the Wardens. Mr Simpson is to be removed from Blacks to Tuapeka, Major Croker leaving the Bervice. Mr Warden Hickson will succeed Mr Simpson at Biacka." The Wakatip Mail says that on Thursday morning last, at eight o'clock (Wellington mean time,) a smart Bhock of earthquake was felt at Qtteenstown. It was very distinct, and accompanied by a rumbling noise. We learn that the new county of Westland .mil include the whole of the territory from tbe Biver Grey on the north, southward to the Otago boundary, and from the sea inland to the dividing range. Over this district the Canterbury Gorernment has ceased to have either legislative or administrative control. The present Provincial Acts are to be in force, until they are overridden or amended by General Assembly legislation. 'Ihe district \\ to have all its money at its own disposal, with the enjoyment of its entire goldfields duty, and of the same proportion of its customs duties as is allotted to provinces. According to the new financial scheme of the Government, one-half of the customs revenue is to be given to the province for local use, after certain administrative expenses within the provinces have been defrayed. The officer delegated by the Governor (the Hon. John Hall) will exercise his powers by the advice of an Elective Council of nine members in the same ' manner as the Governor acts by the ' advice ' of his Executive. Eight of these are to be elected, the ninth being the chairman, nominated by the Governor. The Westland accounts are to be kapt separate by the Colonial (and not the Provincial) Secretary, and provision for the temporary expenses of the local government is to be made by the Colonial Treasurer. In fact all has been done by the Government that was possible to meet the requirements of Westland, short of constituting it a separate province. The accounts as to the North Island goldfields are not encouraging. The Short-land correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, writing on the 13th inst., says, "No new finds of any consepuence are reported. There have been three rushes during the last two days. lam not aware that the prospectors got enough to pay for staying up 'all night; but Ido know that one party of them that stayed out all night did'nt find the rush. The three township claims are doing a small business, and the other claims are getting along as well as they can."