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Southland Times, Issue 1300, 29 August 1870, Page 4

, 1 K « NEW SOUTH WALES. Advices from the South Seas, received by the mission schooner Southern Cross, report that further outrages have been committed by the crews of vessels seeking laborers among the natives of the different islands. Gray, of Calderwood, has been sentenced to death. The jury recommended him to mercy. William Hickey has accepted the challenga issued by Bush, to pull him a 3 1 mile race for £100 a side.. News has been received by the mail ; that the Eey. Mr Veitch, Congregational - minister, had died in London. • The new session* of Parliament was . opened on the 9th. : There was a very . -large attendance, and the Chamber prej isentedia most animated appearance as it i his Excellency the Governor entered. ; Amongst the visitors wasM. LaEicherie, i the new Governor of New Caledonia. .~;Tbe speech was short, and rather vague. Jilt-intimates the appointment of another Eoyal Commissioner to inquire into the ,admini;3tra4on of justice ; promises that "the' Estimates will be: immediately sub- ' "imtfed fOiihe.Legislative, Assembly ; hints '.\ai the Repression caused; by the floods as having influenced; the revenue receipts, but erpresses a hope that the expenditure will be kept within the receipts. It sugg ests loans for railway extension on a cheap plan, and also for the purpose of extending immigration ; and for the erection of lunatic asylums and other public It "further remarks that the . Intercolonial Conference had not settled any. point definitely. A resolution for V constructing a railway in the south "weptern district would be early submitted ' Jbo Parliament. Tbe abolition of ad valorem duties,' is promised. . The Exhibition is ■ regarded with satisfaction, as likely to be jof great "benefit to the colony. The hon. . Mr Dalley and the hon. Mr Salomon took ' their seats in the Upper House for the 'first time. IvTt Bpwden moved the address in reply, \ and Mr Spriri seconded. Sir James Martin moved an amendment upon the address, condemning the Government for keeping so long vacant the office of Minister of Lands. The debate is likely to last several days. , Mr Dean's return has been petitioned .against. .' i In the Legislative Assembly Comman- •' der Onslow strongly condemned the Home -Government for withdrawing the troops, •and asserted that the colonies could better ispare their connexion with England than ' England hers with the colonies. ; The 1 penalty of £100 imposed on the KM Herald for publishing Dr Steele's ■letter on South Sea Slavery, while a case .was pending before the Supreme Court, iaa^been remitted by the Government on the recommendation of the judges. . Mr Harris, proprietor of the Goulburn Post, has been committed for trial for a (criminal libel on Messrs Forsythand Co., of Wagga Wagga, that paper having published a paragraph affecting their commercial stability. In the Legislative Assembly on the 12th, contrary to general expectation, the Opposition precipitated a division on Sir James Martin's amendment on the address in reply, and the Government had a majority of two, there being 28 for the amendment, and 30 against it. In the Assembly on the 13th, Mr Lackey was elected chairman of committees. The Government announced their intention to at once introduce a Marine Board Bill. . The Government decline prosecuting the editor of the Goulburn Post, on a charge of criminal libel, for which he had been committed for trial. ? The. proprietors of the Sydney Morning Tlerald have made a donation to the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum of. the ;£IOO remittecl by the Government as the fine iinpoised on them for publishing a letter while Captain Hovell's case was pending. - Tbe Government have received a telegramfrom Wentworth, reporting immense floods there. The water was still rising. Twenty houses were flooded. > The Governor of New Caledonia intends appointing a commission to visit the Sydney Exhibition. SOUTH AUSTEALIA. His/ Excellency the Governor has re ceived a telegram from Lord Monck, chairman of the British Telegraphic Company, . stating positively that the cable ' wilL be landed at Port Darwin. The telegram does not mention that any ~ aiaairgonion* 1 "wit.h Queensland is contemplated. A bottle has been picked up at Lacepede Bay, which had been thrown overboard from a United States frigate, to ascertain the' course of the currents. Hon. Mr J. T. Bagot, solicitor, aj?& late Chief-Secretary, died very suddenly, on the sth from asphyxia. •The Assembly has the Land Eeform Bill ; under : discussion. It has been resolved that all lands left unselected after having been offered shall be sold by auction, for the future, and not by tender as formerly. At a meeting of the Philosophical Society, held last night, His Excellency the Governor read a brief account which he had received of the doings of the "Forest Expedition," from Western Australia. It confirms entirely the account of the country given by Mr Eyre, who so many years ago explored the land inland from the Bight. They found no permanent water, except at the one spot stated by Mr Eyre. They went inland a distance of from 30 to 50 miles at different places. They had always plenty of feed, but no water. When they reached the Great Australian Bight they had travelled 130 miles without a drop of water, and yet they brought every horse they started with to Fowler's Bay.