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Yesteaday afternoon a brig arrived in the New River, supposed to be the Prarie, from Hobarton. This is the vessel Me H. Howard, who recently went to Tasmania to bring over the salmon-trout, ova for the Southland Acclimitisation Society, was to return by. We understand that Mr Butts, the hon Secretary of the Society made immediate arrangements to pro seed down the river for the purpose of taking the ova direct to the hatchingponds near Wallacetown. It is therefore probable, that we may be able to chronicle in our next the fact of the first ova introduced into Southland being in process of hatching.

The farewell dinner to MrLumsden on the occasion of his departure on a visit to Scotland, came off with great spirit and harmony at the Prince of Wales Hotel, last evenini. About fifty of our leading citizens, representing every shade af political opinion were present. The Hon Dr Menzies occupied the chair, andH. Armstrong, Esq., deputy Superintendent, acted as croupier. The following address beautifully engrossed on vellum by Mr F. W. Scott, was, during the evening, presented by the Chairman in name of those assembled : — To George Lumsden, Esq., M.P.C. Dear Sir, — Your fellow-citizens now assembled on the eve of your departure for England, impressed with a deep sense of the valuable public services you have rendered, and anxious to testify their esteem foi your sterling qualities as a private citizen, request your acceptance of this address. They desire, however inadequately, to express their grateful appreciation of your untiring exertions i to promote the welfare of this community, and the interests of the country at large. Wishing you a pleasant and prosperous voyage, and speedy return, with renewed health and vigor, to resume your wonted place among us, we beg to subscribe ourselves, &c. (Here follow the signatures.) The late hour to which the meeting was kept up, prevents our saying more than that it was a most successful one. The toasts, especially that of the evening, being given and received most enthusiastically. The dinner itself was got up in Mr Smith's best style, and was worthy of the occasion. A further notice will appear in our next.

The following is the state of H.M. Goal, Invercargill, for the month ending 31st ult. : — penal servitude, 2 males ; hard labor, 5 males ; criminal lunatic, 1 male ; crown debtor, 1 male ; on remand, 1 male ; total, 10 males. Prisoners received during the month, 3 males ; prisoners discharged during the month, 3 males.

We extract the following from the c Dunolly Advertiser' : — " On Tuesday morning last, in consequence of a dissatisfaction among the children of the Flowery Land, in respect to certain moneys which had been subscribed by them for the purpose of exhuming the bodies of their friends who had died an. been buried here, and of sending them back to China, a meeting was proposed to be held at the Pound Rush, to talk over the matter, and express their opinion of Sim Kuin Lee, who had beon appointed to manage the fund, and also to audit his accounts — or something of that sort. Feeling was very high upon thib affair, and expressions and threats were used, which caused the police to be on the alert ; and to the surprise of the angry Celestials Sergeant Webb, with a posse comitatus, was on the scene before the formal meeting came off, and by a few judicious remarks, which acted pretty powerfully on the fears of the excited multitude, he induced them to disperse. There is every reason to believe that blood would have been shed, as knives had been brandished and deep oaths sworn (in Chinese, of course), that some parties would come to grief if the accounts were not properly explained. It appears that a Chinamanhad been sent up from tovra by Sim Earn Lee to explain tiie accounts, but being afraid of his excited countrymen, he thought it best to skedaddle back to Melbourne ; and no explanation wa3 made."

The ' Argua ' of the 20th ult., thus comments upon the peculiar style of writing by Geelong journalists: — "High falutin" is an art which seems to be diligently cultivated at G-eelong, with some encouraging and sometimes extraordinary results. The 'G-eelong Advertiser,' for instance, commences its leading article on Friday as follows : — " If ' there is no place like home.' as one of the world's queens of song, Madame Anna Bishop, has been recently pouring with liquid melody into the enraptured earß of the G-eelongese, then all that tends to make that sacred and happy spot more homely and endearing should .be cherished, improved upon, and supported with all the earnestness and determination of that spirit of love of home and home scenes and associations which so distinctly characterises the people of the United Kingdom, from whom we, a3 the colonists of Victoria, may be said to have wholly sprung. Perhaps nothing tends more to preserve proper national pride, national honor, and pure patriotism, than the love of country, the love of those scenes of birth and youth which the hand of Divine Providence has indelibly impressed upon the soul of man. Witness in historical records the long roll of nations who have fought and bled for their country's weal, the feats of heroism which have been achieved the endurance which has been sustained (sic), and the unparallelled victories gained," &c. And all this is introductory to something in the shape of a complaint about the Government grant to the local botanic gardens.

The { Mining Becord ' (Victoria) remarks : — " We have once more sent hoire a distinguished plenipotentiary to the mother country, with the view among other things, of trumpeting the advantages of the colony in the ears of the English, and wooing the people hitherward. And now we have a Government announcing that the stream of immigration, so long dammed up, shall be set free. It will be a cheering tli n^ for the colony when this promise becom::- jjurformance ; but to render the work a real !>.. • i._ the lessione of the past must not be over! > • .■ i. There must be no shovelling of iinmigriir.io o; all descriptions heedlessly on our shores, to get up rowdy meetings of unemployed, and injure the. character of Victoria in tho eyes of the world. There will have to be a scheme of reception and distribution as well as migration ; and those we assist to come must be capable of performing the labor we

The • Southern Cross ' of August 12 ha 9 ttiW following :— By the cutter ' Whttby,' which arrived j yesterday, we have new 3 from Opotiki to the 6th instant. It is believed by those who know the situation of Opotiki, and the natives who hold the country at the baok, that the return of the Hauhau prisoners from the Chatham Islands will have a bad effect, by encouraging the Ureweres to make incursions on-.the .settlement of Opotiki. This as not yet taken'plac%,for two reasons probably — the prisoners had not, at the latest dates, succeeded in making their escape to the bush, where they are almost certain to associate with the Urewera*-; and also because there are no scattered settlers abompOpotiki to attack, the whole population being concentrated in the township. We learn, however, from J Captain Doughty, that considerable alarm was felt at Opotiki. A large number of men were npon pay. Hauhau fires were seen on the ranges, but no rebels had ventured near the town. We learn that a great many of the settlers of Opotiki aro leaving the place. Seventeen came up in the • Wliitby,' many of whom are to proceed to the Thames.

Thß ' Wakatip Mail,' 20th August says : — We are informed, on moat reliable authority, that the prospects of the Skippers reefs are still encourageing, and preparations are being made to commence crashing as soon as the ice will permit. Both the Phoenix and Otago Companies' prospects are hopeful, but on supposed separate reefs ; the latter being on a new reef lately discovered, while the former is on a new ' make' of the old Scandinavian rich reef. It is from the latter where much is expected.

We take the following from the * Scientific Review' :— " At the rolling mills of MM. Frank and Elbers, of Hagen, in Westphalia, some interesting experitnonla have been recently made for the purpose of comparing iron and cast steel as materials for the construction ot steam boilers. Both boilers experimented on were quite new. The thickness of the plates in the iron boiler was half an inch, those in the steel boiler were only one-third of an inch. They were of the same size, same heating surface, and Sfit it the same manner. Worked in precisely the same manner, the water evaporated from the iron boiler was' 20,0651 b, and that from the other, 23,523 showing the evaporating capacity to be nearly 17i in favor of the steel boiler. One pound of coal evaporated in the iron boiler 63501 b water, in the other 7467 lb at 212 deg' Fahrenheit. With salt water the iron boiler lost 6U pints, the steel boiler 811 pints, showing nearly 21 per cent in favor of the steel." The ' Hobart Town Mercury' says :— " Infor- . mation has been received in town to the effect that salmon have been seen in the Ouse river. The information is of the most reliable kind, and reports two fish as having been seen spawning. Mr Morton Allport and other gentlemen have proceeded to the locality, with a determination to capture one of the- fish, if possible, and to set at rest all doubts as to the absolute success of the experiment.' '

The following extraordinary account of the origin of the fire that recently took place in the stores of Messrs Ireland Brothers, Durham-street, Auckland, we extract from the ' Southern Gross,' 10th ult:— "lt is satisfactory, after all the many conjectures that have been made on the subject, that the origin of the fire has now been clearly ascertained ; and though we ehall not anticipate the details that will transpire at the official inquiry, we may say shortly that Messrs Ireland Bro3. appear to be porfectly blameless in the matter, the fire having been caused by the gross carelessness of others. It seems that, about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, one of the Messrs Ireland received a note from Captain Williams stating that the writer was in possession of information that would throw light on the origin of the fire. Mr Ireland was farther requested to proceed on board the ship Racehorse in order to learn further particulars. He did so, and on his arrival on board several of the officers and crew were mustered, and a statement was made which throws the clearest possible light on the origin of the fire. The crew stated that about 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the cooper of the vessel was engaged on the lower deck in securing some cargo which had become bulged by compression. One of the articles at which he was at work was a cask of lampblack, the top of which had been jammed off. In attempting to repair the damage he accidentally - ignited some brown paper attached to the cask, and in a few minutes the contents of the cask were on fire, a ball of burning material about as large as a man's head being observed in the middle of the cask. Feeling that it might possibly endanger the safety of the ship, it was removed to the 'tween-decks ; but here again it was observed by the second officer, who had it, as he thought, extinguished. The contents of the barrel, according to the statements of the men, were stirred round in the centre, and then it was tightly closed up and removed on t o the whaif to ensure the safety of the vessel. Now comes the most extraordinary and unfortunate part of the story. Mr Wadham who is employed by the Messrs" Ireland Brothers to superintend the landing of all cargo consigned to them, and who had been employed in that cap acity in respect to goods landing from the • K icehorse,' observed the barrel on the wharf, and, seeing that it was consigned to Messrs Ireland Brothers, had it removed to their store, little imagining what it contained. At this time there appears to have been nothing unusual about the appearance of the barrel, and it is believed that, having been tightly closed up, the fire must have smouldered inside, until towards Sunday morning it burst out through the woodwork of the cask, and, not being observed, soon communicated itself to the great bulk of inflammable goods in the store. At all events the barrel was removed to Messrs Ireland Brothers' store between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was exactly on the spot where it was placed that the fire was first noticed. Should this explanation of the matter be verified at the inquest, the origin of the fire will at least have been satisfactorily cleared up.

The ' Mount Alexander Mail ' reports the following: — l A case of what appears very determined suicide bj a Chinese has been discovered at Campbell's Creek. It appears that on Sunday morning at an early hour a man named Martin was passing through Blanket Flat, when he saw a Chinese in a squatting position in a hole about 3ft. deep. A closer examination showed him that the man was dead, and information was immediately given to the police. On the body being removed, in the hand of the deceased, was found a matchjbox, which had contained opium,

S^^^J and his mouth and nose were smeared with the whfHbpme drug. On his arm wai twisted m rope, by atrang^^Bfch it would seem that had the poison failed man i^^A|ulation would have been resorted to. The found ana^w well dressed, and in his pocket was one, as, if the decesujty, purse. : The case is a pebulia* opium, he has not foUowedjcittfJias destroyed himself by mode of using it, as suicides geneTraUy"fiQXTiß*-~ ~ -^— opium with vinegar to dissolve it, so as to make it more easily swallowed, and also to make it more rapid in its work of destruction. 1 In the ' New Zealand Gazette,' of the 12th ult it is notified that a Bitting of the Court of Appeal will be held at Wellington on the 12th day of October next.

" The ruling passion strong in death:" Under this heading the ' Pastoral Times * relate! the foti* lowing :— " Last week a sick man was brought from Hay and placed in the Deniliquin Hospital. His name is John Mitchell, and he appears to have been in the last stage of lung 'disease. At he had about £40 upon him, and also owned several allotments at Footscray, and as it wu certain that he could not possibly recover, two of the committee, with the hon secretary Waited oil the sick man, and on finding out he had no reli* tions that he could leave his property to, »uggested to him that he could leave it to the hospital, upon which he observed, in a voice which was scarcely audible, { I am no schoolboy; leave the money in the bank ; while I can " shout" (extending his clenched fist as though he were grasping a friend's hand in a drinking bout). I can get plenty of friends.' Though in artic&6 mortis, his whole thought* were bent on the prospects of living to enjoy another drinking bout. He died intestate."

The Macraes correspondent ot the ' Waikouaiti Herald,' writing under date the 17th ult., says : —The Macraes Quartz Crashing Company ii a success. Perhaps the best proof I can give of the. fact is that stone is coming in to the machine much faster than it can be crushed, and that applications for crushing are daily reserved at the Company's office. I am sorry not to be in i position to state the result of any particular crushing, as leaseholders are evidently anxious to keep the matter quiet for a time (I suppose to enable them to take up more ground before a rush for claims sets in.) The machinery is working well, and I hope in a short time to report - that a second battery of stampers is being erected. The 'Pastoral Times' reports :— ' The S. M. Herald' is taking alarm at the polite attentions paid to our southern districts, which are fast becoming Victorian in every thing but the name" We have warned the" Sydney Government repeatedly that this would come to pass. The disi trict of Southern Kiverina has been so sadly neglected that Sydney will have to do all in its power to make up for past indifference to our public wants. ' This line when completeted wfll probably touch our frontier at or near Belvoir, opposite to Albury, and will bring all the Tumut country into easy communication with Melbourne. Hitherto, the navigation of the Upper Murray by steamboats has been made use of for the carriage of goods between Albury 'and Melbourne. Goods go from Melbourne to Echuca by rail, and from Echuca to Albury by steamer. But when a railway is completed all the way from Melbourne to Belvoir, it will be still more easy to supply the" North Murray country from -the southern capital* The Tumut district will be as completely ' annexed* commercially to Melbourne, as some partß of Riverina have already been. And this district is one of the richest in our colony, both agricul* turally and minerally, and only needs good Com* munication to be well settled and populated* Our merchants have long complained that they had ceased to get orders from the. south side of the Murrumbidgee, as they were wont to do, and storekeepers in the south-west hare complained that it took longer to get goods from Sydney than from Melbourne. The construction of the ptfo* posed railway will still further give the advantage to the southern capital.'

The ' Bendigo Advertiser,' 37th insfc., saya:— " A presentation was made at Sandhurst on Wednesday night to Mr John M'lntyre of • silver-mounted casket, formed of an emu*B egg, containing 400 sovereigns. The testimonial bore the following inscription : — ' Presented, with 400 sovereigns, to John M'lntyre, Esq,, J.P., late mayor of Sandhurst, by his friends, in recognition of his many sterling qualities, and ef the zeal and ability displayed by him, as chief magistrate, for so many years ; also in oppreciation of hif efforts in furthering the welfare of this town and district. Sandhurst, 19th August, 1868.' The presentation was made by Mr M'Lachlan, P.M., on behalf of the subscribers. In acknowledging the present, Mr M'lntyre said :— ' It was true he was one of the oldest citizens and public men of Sandhurst, for he had come amongst them in 1852, and he little thought when he entered Bendigo, with his swag on his back, a leg of mutton in his hand, and sixpence in his pocket; that he would occupy the proud position he did that night. TTi» doing so showed that there wa» a wide field for advancement in Australia."'

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Southland Times, Issue 1014, 2 September 1868, Page 2

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Untitled Southland Times, Issue 1014, 2 September 1868, Page 2

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