TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Southland Times, Issue 864, 13 December 1867, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

WELLINGTON.

Tuesday. Fitzherbert's dinner on Friday was a . complete failure ; not quite forty present, and only four or five of the leading members. Ktzherbert made a bitter speech, complaining of being treated like a dog, declaring himself ashamed of the community. He sailed on Sunday in the Eakaia as agent under the Act. He has resigned the Treasurership, and will probably be absent twelve months. It is rumored currently that Auckland dividends will be paid by the Colonial Treasurer. Grove, of Tuapeka, been prospecting near Terawati during the last three' weeks, with three others, partly at Government cost. He reports a field stijficient to give six shillings a day for a few hundred men. He starts again directly for a month. The gold is found in "the creeks. No quartz. • The neighborhood has been so often prospected previously, that the public are sceptical ,as to there being a payable goldfield. Dr Hector has just returned from his I geological trip. Starting from here he wsnt up the East Coast, crossed the country by Lake Taupo, and down the West Coas,t, home. * He passed through the boundaries of the so-called Kins o

territory, and found the whole country peaceful and anxious for settlers. Dr Pollen and Mr Strode have resigned their seats in the legislative Council. Governor Sir George Bowen ds to. arrive by the January Panama boat, -~- J '' Du^EDHir. — On Sunday there was a fire in George-street. Steinmitz's bakerj* house was gutted — a quantity of Btock saved. An insurance for- £ 700 had only lapsed a fortnight. — Monday. — Waterworks inaugurated by the Mayor. Mrs Bathgate named the reservoir " The Koyal Alfred."