The p.s Samson is to convey His-Honoß the Superintendent and the Hon. Mr Reeves on thensouthern trip.
The Presbyterian Synod of Otago and Southland closed its sittings on the 19th ult.
Levuka (Fiji) can now boast of its Mayor and Corporation, aa well as a Chamber of Commerce and a Masonic Lodge.
An attempt was recently made to burn down the gaol at Napier. An accomplice made a confession, which enabled the gaoler to frustrate the plot and arrest the incendiary attempt.
Harvest has commenced in the Tokomairiro district. In some cases the crops are being eaten off by sheep, and it is feared that on too many farms they will not pay the expense of cuttiag and thrashing. Reaping has also commenced in the East Taieri, where the crops are said to be very indifferent and discouraging in the extreme.
Some disappointment was manifested on Wednesday last, when it became known that the Al« hambra had not brought any intelligence of the Suez mail. The Rangitoto, which was to leave Melbourne on tha 20th, should arrive at Hokitika to-day, and if so, an extra containing the news will be issued from this office.
At a specixl meeting of the shareholders of the Southland Building, Land, and Investment Society, held on Wednesday evening, 24th inst., Mr W. Wood was unanimously elected to the vacancy in the trusteeship caused by the resignation of Me W. H. CaHer.^v ,/..,.;. V S;}#Ho'
We haye/been requtested,iji6 stajeVjiiat the c ,Banfc; of New Zealand waisiviiot a-y}oser£in. any^way.'byV the recent .transactions ia%*Bput i fci|ußV gold, .fhe counterfeit . nature- of tfiei-' article being : s& -once detected by the agent of the Bank in Biyerton when it was presented to him for sale.
At a meeting of the Railway Committee, held yesterday afternoon, it was agreed that a deputation consisting of Messrs Oalder, M.H.R., G. Lumsden, and John Blacklock, M.P.C.'s should wait upon the Hon. the Minister of Public Works in reference to the extension of railway works, immigration, &c.
The following; is a verbatim copy of a letter received by a gentleman in business in Nelson from a country customer who, it is scarcely necessary to say, is not of English extraction : — " Sir, — A chele bi at Nelsone youen the Eugliohe maile arrive et A comma te si you bate date acconte. hopine you coite voile A remembre you votre tres humble." &c, &c.
There has been a terrific conflagration on several runs in Marlborough. Tho whole country from Awatere to Flaxbourne is burned. Sheep were roasted aliye in mobs ; fences and feed were all destroyed. The fire is still raging, and ia now (2Oth) spreailina behind. Messrs Richmond and Stafford's runs. The Cape Run wa9 burned, with about twenty miles of country near Starborough. The homestead was saved with difficulty.
A telegram, published elsewhere, states that tho barque Glencoe, from Hobart Town on the 13th, brings news of the arrival of the Suez mail. Now as the Melbourne papers of the 16th inst. contain no notice of its arrival, it is evident that the captain was laboring under a misapprehension. It must have been the Californian mail, which we observe was telegraphed from Sydney on the 13th, that is referred to, so that the intelligence imparted is unreliable.
Writing from the Waiau on the 22nd inst., our correspondent says : — With the exception of Wairaki aud Blackmount, all the stations in this neighborhood have finished sheep-shearing. The weather has been very favorable to the work of the season, it having been for the most part dry and warm. Indeed the drought is somewhat excessive. The ground is literally cracked, but the pasturage is everywhere luxuriant, and all the flocks and herds which come under my cognizance are looking remarkably well.
It appears that there is no truth in the widelycirculated rumor of the death of J. B. Gough, the well-known temperance orator. J. " S." Gough, father of the lecturer, died recently in England, at a ripe old age, and the error seems to have arisen from somewhat undue prominence being given to the latter announcement in the telegraphic news received by a recent mail, under the impression, no doubt, that it referred to J. B. G-ough. Late American papers refer to Mr G-ough as being still earnestly engaged in bis profession. About three months since a new composition, consisting of resin and sand, for use in break blocks on railways, was invented by Mr Ross, of Williamstown, and a trial was given to it on the Victorian railways, bj using it in the blocks of one of the engines. Mr Meikle, superintendent of the locomotive department, has now sent in his report on the invention, from which it appears that by the old method the number of miles traversed by an engine without any alteration in the blocks was 4000, but with the composition the engine ran 6514 miles. There has been one disadvantage, however, and that is an increased tendency to take fire in proceeding down the declines. Mr Meikle suggests that further trials should be made.
The local subscribers to the Royal Scottish Art Union will be pleased to hear that the cases containing the two prizes and engravings have arrived by the City of Dunedin at Port Chalmers. The following letter received by the representative here will explain how an unforeseen delay has now arisen, annoying, in consequence of the promptness shown this season in the conduct of the business of the Society : — " Dunedin, JJarn r 22, 187:4.— Dear Sir,— l have yours of the 16th inst., enclosing shipping bills for certain . cases per City of Dunedin. The said cases, amongst others, are landed and warehoused by the ship's agents (Messrs Or. Or. Eussell & Co.), pending oil*, production to .them of the bill of lading, which document has not reached me, having, I suppose, been lost in the Rangoon. As the agents decline to deliver on indemnity, the business must stand over till return mail from England. — I am, &c, W. Dalrymple, junr."
A special correspondent of the S. A. Register gives that paper an interesting sketch of the English agitator, Mr 0. Bradlaugh, a gentleman, we are told, who " has renounced all private, aims now except one incidental to his mission as a reformer — to become a member of the first Republican Government in England; Mr Bradlaugh's main fear is not that it may be too long delayed, but that it may be precipitated before the country is ripe for him. The particular ' oration,' says the correspondent, " which I was privileged to hear was that on George the Second, the paunchy little Bruaswicker. Hia denunciation swept over the House of Brunswick, making but one exception — her present Majesty. Mr Bradlaugh has this much loyalty , surviving in him, that he wishes the Queen may rule five' years longer, until he has prepared her subjects for the Republic. His tenderness in that quarter is atoned for by redoubled hostility to the Prince of Wales. George the Fourth, the Duke of Cuny berland, the renowned Prince Fred,
1 Who was alive, and is dead,' have, he affirms, contributed all their peculiar virtues to the composition of the' heir-apparent. His style of striking out point after point made the oration tingle with the coldest cynicism. Hard, constrained peals of laughter came at intervals aa a fit chorus to the coarse fury of his sustained abuse." Such is the character and the spirit of the republicanism which is making itself felt and known among the recently enfranchised millions of the great cities of England, and it must be owned that we cannot view its progress without mistrust and alarm. Without aiming directly at- the subversive principles avowed by the most prominent leaders of the Internationale, it seeks to sap no less surely the solid foundations of England's greatness as a nation. It denounces loyalty as a folly ; rank, even when bestowed for the most exalted services, as w offence ; and religion as a sham.
_^ —M? The West Coast goldfields, especially in the Grey district, are improving. The Customs revenue at Greymouth tor 1871 was over £4000 in .... excess of the previous year, and nearly £8000:;$: higher than in 1869. During ttte firßt};week of" this year, 22,069a£5'0f gold jfrefce' "shipped from. ;the West Coast-— 14,8Q9<?Z3 from Hokitika, and : ;7026 from GreymouthV from; 'Mokitika! included 70450za frotnittfe Nelson diggings, that; •;amount having been;sent from-^estpdrt a fSw.z : ,,, dajfs prior to the departure of •; the - steamer. The value of this exportation is £82,808.
The New York correspondent of the Sydney Morning Serald writes : — The people of Ohicago accept the situation with characteristics-heroism.' One " true story" about the . fire shows the temper with which they again begin the world. A friend of mine, a newspaper correspondent, was wandering among the smoking ruins, when be met an old merchant, whose hospitality he had frequently received. The old man — over sixty — had screwed up his hard-featured western face to an expression of philanthropio fortitude, and was actively employed in squirting . tobacco juice on the blackened bricks. " Here's whe^e my store was," said he. V Ah," Baid my friend, " when are you going to build it up again ?" " Waal" — viciously expectorating in a new place
— " that's what I'm waiting here for now. Jest as soon as I can spit on a brick without hearing it hiss, I'm goan to work again."
The Presbytery of Southland met, with leave Of the Synod, in the First Churcll, Dunedin, on the 16th inst. Present — The Rev. T. Alexander (Moderator), Revs. A. H. Stobo, A. Stevens, and D. Ross (Ministers), and Mr F. H. Geisow (elder). The Key. T>. Ross applied for leave to form a Kirk Ssssion, and got permission to proceed with the election of four elders without the assistance of assessors. The Presbytery then took the call of the Rev. Mr Thomson to Win ton into consideration, and appointed Wednesday, the 14th February, as the day on which they Trill take Mr Thomson on trial, that gentleman to be. examined in Hebrew, Greek, and Church History, and to preach a sermon from 1 Tim. i. 15. The Rev. S. Waters appearei as a commissioner for the Clutha Presbytery in support of the call of the Rev. R. Morrison to Lawrence. Mr Stobo read a letter from Mr Morrison, from which the following is an extract :— " If I looked to worldlyadvantage, to my bodily ease, to the pleasure of working among my own people, and not a class composed of different denominations, I would accept the call at once. Bat the people here, in a spiritual point of view, are in bo necessitous' '■'•■ condition, that 1 shrink from the responsibility of leaving them. Lawrence can with eaße obtain a man more worthy of being their minister than I am, but this people, so careless, and yet so very dear to me, would with my departure be deprived for a long time at least of the means of grace. I think, so far as my humble judgment goes, that it is my duty to remain here in spite of the many difficulties and discouragements I have to contend against. Indeed these very difficulties and discouragements constitute to my mind the strongest argument in favor of Switzers," &o. The Presbytery therefore agreed that they would not allow the transfer of Mr Morrison from Switzers to Lawrence, in which decision Mr Waters acquiesced. The meeting was then closed with prayer.
At a vestry meeting of St. John's Church, held last night for the election of office-bearers for the ensuing twelvemonths, a lengthened discussion took place regarding the memorial on church government to the Beverend the Primate and Bishops of the several Dioceses in New Zealand, and emanating from the clergyman r . churchwardens, &c, of the Church of England, Invercargill. Mr F. W. Wade reviewed the different statements set forth in the memorial, and contended that it had no right to assume to be an expression of opinion from the Church in Invercargill. He concluded by moving the following resolution : — " That, having learnt that a memorial, purporting to be a memorial of the clergyman, churchwardens, vestrymen, and lay members of the Church of England in Invercargill, haa been forwarded to the Right Reverend the Primate, and to the Eight Reverend the Bishops aB Chairmen; of the Standing Committees, and Presidents of the Synods of the several dioceses
in New Zealand, this meeting desires to express its dissent from the statements in the said memorial contained, and deeply regrets that the memorialists should have so expressed themselves as to lead the recipients of tha memorial to the erroneous conclusion that it emanated from the church members as a body, whilst in fact it was never submitted to either a parish or vestry meeting." Mr H. Gh Fielder seconded the motion, and spoke in favor of it. Mr Thomas Pratt also spoke in fayor of the motion. Mr D. Macrorie defended the memorial, and argued that it did not assume to emanate from the church as a body, but simply from certain members of that church. In token of that it was pointed out that the memorial proceeded upon the , preamble that it emanated from the undersigned members. Ho concluded by moving, as an amendment — " That this meeting regrets that a feeling should have gained ground that a memorial lately published in the public papers emanated from St. John's parish' as a body, which would have been obviated by publishing either the names or the number of names signing that memorial, and that the chairman be requested to cause the necessary corrections to be made in the journals in which the memorial appeared, and to all to whom the memorial has been sent." The chairman, the Eev. Mr Tanner, likewise gave it as his opinion that it 'could not upon the fa«& of it be construed as -a memorial from the church as a body. He admitted, however, that it was an omission that the names of the memorialists, or at least the number signing, had not been appended to "the memorial as published. He thought, however, that the amendment would meet the views of the gentlemen who objected to the wording of the memorial. Mr Gibbs also expressed a similar opinion. He stated that he was one of the promoters of the memorial, and as such he assured them that there was no intention of giving it forth as a memorial from the Church as a body. All it aimed at was an expression of feeling by those members of the Chursh whose nameß > were attached to it. A proposal by Mr B. S. Borne that the question Bhould be adjourned was not pressed. After being farther discussed, the motion and amendment were put, when the former was carried with, only two dissenting
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