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Southland Times, Issue 860, 6 December 1867, Page 2

The annual general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce takes place at the rooms, Tay-street, this day at 3 p.m. As officers have to be elected .for,* the ensuring year, and other inportant matters are to be brought forward, it is desirable that there should be a full attendance of memt>ers. The preparations for the forthcoming Show of th« Agricultural and Pastoral Association are being carried out with an earnestnesß that bespeaks for it a success. We understand that the entries for stock to be exhibited are already coming in, amongst which will be soma superior ■.Cattle and sheep, lately imported. The Show , will be held in the Union Bant Reserve, Taystreet. The contract for the fitting up of the ■jyards has been taken by Mr Eraser, of the Clinton Saw Mills. The exhibits, it is expected, will be mimerous and varied. At the Shows held during the season at Timaru and OamaTU, the long wool Bheep of Southland, exhibited by R. Hamilton, Esq., Morton Mains, have carried every prize, but he has now to compete withhisSouthland neighbors, and a sharp and honorable competition will be the result. It is now generally conceded that Southland stands pre-eminent as a stock-breeding Province. In the districtswhere Agricultural Shows have been held, this province has carried off the lion's share of the prizes for every class for which it competed. The show of the Southland Association, to be held on the 19th inst., will no doubt attract many breeders of stock in other provinces to enter the arena of competition, and it is more than probable that it will be one far exceeding in importance all previously held in the colony. We believe that the Southland settlers as a class have expended moro in the importation of superior stock — sheep, cattle &o — and paid more attention to their cultivation than has been done in any district in the Australias of the same extent of country and population. We have had frequently of late the pleasing duty to record the importation into Southland of cattle of the highest class. The lateßt arrivals are those that came by the "Tararu*." They are a splendid lot, consisting of twelve pure bred short-horned, the property of Gk Bell, Esq., who recently purchasad them in Victoria, at a sale oLthe stock of the celebrated breeders, Messrs Morton Brothers and Leach, of Mount Derrimut. From the sale list published in the Melbourne Argus, we extract the following notice of the stock purchased and brought to thi3 Province by Mr Bell. Bulls— Royal Butterfly 27th, .calved January 30, 1867, by Royal Butterfly 16th, dam (Jessamine 13th), by Royal Butterfly 6th'; price, 110 guineas. Royal Butterfly 30th, calved May 22, 1867 ; by Royal Butterfly 6th, dam (Flower of Australia) by Prince Oscar 2nd ; price, 101 guineas. Cows and Heifers. — Calved January, 9, 1858; by Lord Raglan, dam (Jassamine) imported, by son of Don O'Connell ; price, 38 guineas. April Flower (imported) calved April 15, 1858 ; by Richard Ccsur de Lion, dam (May Flower) by Abraham Parker; price, 85. guineas. Jassamine 4th, calved February 3, 1860; by Lord Raglan, dam (Jessamine) imported, by son of Dan O'Connell ; price, 85 guineas. Lady Bowen calved August 31, 1861, by Benedict imported, dam (Matilda) imported, by Cardinal ; price, 72 guineas. April Flower 3rd, calved January 24, 1865, by Royal Butterfly 6th, dam (April Flower) imported, by Richard Coaur de Lion ; price, 65 guineas. Queen of the Butterflies, calved December 21, 1865, by Royal Butterfly 6th, dam (April. Flower) by Richard Cceur de Lion ; price 155 gunieas. Jessamine 18tb, calved November 20th, 1865, by Royal Butterfly 6th, dam (Jessamine 4th) by Lord Raglan ; price 43 guineas. Jessamine 20th, calved January 6th, 1866, by Royal Butterfly 6th, dam (Jessamine 6th) by Lord Raglan ; price 48 guineas. Jeisamine 24th, calved August 22nd, 1866, by Royal Butterfly 6th, dam (Jessamine sth) by Sir Henry Barkly ; price 55 guineas. Jessamine 27th, ; calved January 27, 1867, by Royal Butterfly 6th, dam (Jessamine 4th) by Lord Raglan ; price 39 guineas. It has •eldom been our good fortune to inspect * similar number of Buch valuable and high bred cattle imported, by one party into this Province. This lot will be a great acquisition to the stock of the country, and we hope the enterprising importer will exhibit some of them at the forthcoming Agricultural— andPastoral Association's Show. We forgot to state that the above mentioned cows are almost all in calf to well-known bulls. The Sydney Umpire has heard that Mr Martin (Premier of New South Wales), and his colleagues intend inviting H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and the members of both Houses of Paliament t© an entertainment, consisting of various'field "sports and "other aniuso ments, in the neighborhood of Brisbane Water ; and that tents and other conveniences for an encampment are already in course of preparation, the idea being that the entertainment shall axtend over three days. ....-..-

Thift yew? (18fi"7) 'will be on© of infinite itn- v portance to Germany, in an intellectual point of view. The enactment passed by the late German Diet in 1837, by which, the exclusive ' copyright of all literary works was secured to 1 authors during their lifetime, and, in addition, < for a period of thirty years after their death, also i included a clause which, gave the copyright to the ' heirs of (at that time") deceased writers for thirty. ' years from the date of the passing of that law. This privilege of course will discontinue at some time within the present year, to extend itself to ; the heirs of many of the best German authors or to the publishers of their worts, and the benefit that the reading German public will derive from the fact of their national literature being brought, as far as mere cost is concerned, within the reach of all, including the comparatively poorer classes, will be incalculable. The renowned house of J. G. Cotta, of Stuttgart, for instance— a very prince amongst the publishing firms of the world — will lose the oodyrights of most of Germany's greatest , authors ; those whose works constitute the clas- j sical literature par excellence of their country, as I Goethe, 3 chiller, Klopstock, Lessing, Wieland, I Platen, and others. The advertising sheets of German newspapers contain already numberless announcements from various publishers acquainting the public of their intention of bringing out the " released authors" in all manner of shapes, types, and forms, all vicing with each, other in the matter of cheapness. Besides the authors already named, Herder, Charaisso, Voss, Hanff, Koerner, Bnerger, and many others, will now become the property of the German people ; but as hitherto little or no attention has been paid to the critical correctness of the works in question, successfully aB the Germans have labored in that field in the literature of other nations (for instance in our own, vide Gervinus, Sehlegel,TJlrici, &c), it is to be hoped that competition will have a healthy effect also in that direction. The best editions (that is, the most expensive) of German classics, as is well known, literacy swarm with inaccuracies and " printer's errors." Several of the sparrows recently liberated by the Acclimatisation Society atGeelong (Victoria), hava found themselves a home in the steeple of the High Church there, and appear to enjoy their new quarters. Melbourne was brilliantly illuminated on the 25th inst., in honor of the landing of the Duke of Edinburgh. At least 100,000 persons were in the streets during the evening. A ■ series of services in connection with, the Pan- Anglican Synod, under the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, commenced on Sept. 14, at the Church, of St. Lawrence, Jewry, Gresham-street, City. The last of the services were on Saturday, the 21st, and on Sunday, the 22nd Sept., the preachers being the Uev. G. F. Pownall, dean of Perth, the Bishop of Vermont, the Bishop of Montreal, the Bishop of New Zealand, and the Bishop of St. Andrew's. The offertories for the day were for the aid of missions in Australia. Each of the preachers dwelt forcibly on the fact that while much had been done for the relief of spiritual destitution in the separate spheres of their action much yet remained to be accomplished. The Bishop of New Zealand pointed out how greatly the missionary influence of the Church was impeded by the discords and confusion which unhappily prevailed among its members at home. It was to dissipate those discords and that confusion, to promote peace, and to affirm the true faith with no uncertain voice that, the bishops of the Church were about to meet together from all parts of the world, and not to condemn the heretic or indulge in accusation against him. The heads of the Church were, he tr-aintained, bound to protest, as had been of old, against the promulgation of heretical doctrines, for there could be no faith where some said one thing and some another. He knew nothing, he might add, of what was termed ritualism, save from report, for the poverty of the Church in the colonies obliged its members to worship God in the rudest wooden buildings, and even in sheds constructed of straw. There might be deep symbolism in ritualism as introduced into the Church at home, but no missionary bishop could ever adopt it. At the close of his address the right rev prelate informed the congregation that the offertory would applied to the endowment of a bishopric in New Zealand, for, as matters now stood, his successor, in the event of his own death or resignation, would not have more than £80 a jear for the support of his sacred office. The total amount realised by the offertories during the week was between £300 and £400. In the Canterbury Gazette, a proclamation is published, declaring that portion of the Province of Canterbury west of the dividing range, an infected district in terms of the Act. This proclamation is rendered necessary from the fact that pleuro-pneumouia has broken out in Westland. A gentleman, who recendy re turned from Burke Town, Carpentaria, to Cleveland Bay, communicated to the local journal the accompanying information respecting the Gulf settlement : — " The report that this township has been deserted arose from the fact that a few families had left for the new township on the Norman River, which is 140 miles from Burke Town. The majority of the inhabitants have, however, remained. The formation of a township on the Norman, is thought, can in no way affect the interests of Bnrke Town. There has been very little sickness, but business was very dull, although money plentiful. Captain Edwards had gone with Captain Cadell in search, of the old white man reported to have been seen amongst the blacks. Captain Edwards then proceeds on his w»y to the south round the western coast. Ther» is every chance of the white man being rescued. The reports that have appeared in many of the newspapers relatir* to the finding of some of Leichhardt's party have been much exaggerated. It is much "te be regretted that parties furnishing these reports are not more careful in telling the] truth. A cargo of raitoni »nd clothes would sell well at present, but there it no iale for fancy goodi, with which all the •tores ara amply provided. Mr Holmes and party (one man and a black boy) had brought in foi. of nttggety gold, found by him on the head of the Leichdardt Hirer. Mr J. G. Macdonald was shearing his sheep on the Leichdardt, and and only half a mile from where he delivers it on j board the tteamer. The steamer was paying well. Lynch law still reigns at Burke Town. There are no police, and the strongest . carries the day. This ia a most lamentable fact, and requires the immediate consideration of the Government; There i» much need of rain all along the road from the Gulf. Water *nd..ieedare becoming v.ry scarce." "