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The San Francisco mail has at last arrived, having been detained by bad weather. Unfortunately the telegrams of the news were not received by us in time to be published in this day's paper. The hon. treasurer to the Provincial Hospital reports through us the receipt of £5 donation by Mr F. Wentworth, £1 11s collected by Mr W. Johnston, Wrey's Bush, and £7 from Mr A. Swhan, of the Five Rivers station. The annual treat to the children attending the Presbyterian Sabbath School, takes place on Tuesday next- Contributions for the treat will be received in the vestry of the Church on Monday evening. The children are to muster at the Church at half vast twelve on Tuesday. A strange phenomenon was observe! at Nelson the other day just before dark. A dense mist was at the time enveloping tha summit of the Mtiungatapu, when suddenly there was seen a thin spiral column, connecting it with a heavy cloud above, the result of which was that the mist speedily broke, all the moisture having apparently been sucked up into the cloud above. In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, a woman named Hart applied under the Destitute Persons Relief Act for an order of affiliation against Thomas Devalley. Mr Wade for plaintiff and Mr Macdonald for defendant. After evidence had been led, the Magistrate, Mr M'Culloch, found that plaintiff's allegations had not been corroborated in terms of the Act, and dismissed the claim without costs. The Christian M'Ausland, the second wool ship of the season, cleared out from Port Chalmers on the 6th inst., and is expected hourly at the Bluff. She brings along with her 150 tons of preserved meat shipped at Port Chalmers, and besides loading wool at the Bluff, will fill up with preserved meats. We are informed that 1000 bales of wool are ready dumped for her at the Bluff, so that we may calculate upon her getting a speedy despatch. At a meeting of the members of the newlvformed artillery company, held the other night in the drill shed, for the election of officers, the following gentlemen were unanimously chosen : — Captain, John Dalgliesh, Esq. ; First Lieutenant, J. E.Hannah, Esq.; Second^Lieutenant.Wtn. Henderson, Esq. The following were elected as sergeants : — Messrs Kelly, Conyers, Thomson, and Donnelly. We believe the company now musters upwards of 50 members, and from their general appearance we should say that in a short time they will make a very efficient corps. At a meeting of the Waikiwi School Committee, held on Monday evening last (all the members but one being present), it was resolved that plans and specifications should be prepared for the erection of a school-house and residence on the Main North Road. One acre of ground on the west side of the road, northward of the Waikiwi river, has been kindly promised for a site by Mr William Wood. The inhabitants of this district may now fairly congratulate themselves on the prospect of the early supply of the long-felt want of the district. The newly-elected committee of the Invercargill Athenaeum met on Tuesday evening last at their rooms, when the question of dealing with the reserves set apart for the Institution was diecussed. It was resolved to submit the rural reserve of 447 acres on the Bluff road, near to West's, to competition by tender, and a subcommittee of three was appointed to consider and report at next meeting upon the leasing of the valuable section granted to the Athenaeum at the north-east corner of Dee and Esk streets. It was incidentally mentioned by the President that communications had passed between himself and Mrs Nugent Wood relative to a public reading by that lady. It will be seen by our other columns that Mrs Wood has consented, and will give original readings at the Tbeatre Royal, on Wednesday evening next. Apart from the special attraction of a lady reader, Mrs Wood's published pieces and mode of rendering will without doubt be sufficient to secure a full attendance.

The men on strike on the railways in Auckland are said to have resumed work by contract. A vessel has been chartered in Melbourne to convey wool to Canada, Montreal being the port of destination. There are now 85 inmates in the Victorian Asylum and School for the Blind, namely, 52 boys and 33 girls. A French ship, called the Trait d' Union, has lately sailed from Adelaide, with a cargo of wheat and bark for Havre. The rumor that small -pox had broken out among the Natives in Napier is incorrect, the affection being only a violent vesicular eruption. The Charlotte Gladstone, from London, has brought out 800 birds for the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, which have been landed in splendid condition. From the certified copy of the Medical Register of New Zealand for the year 1871, published in the Gazette, wo learn that there are 207 medical practitioners in the colony. Mr Fox, the Premier, is now on a tour of the Nelson and Westland goldfields, to which his visit is likely to extend for three weeks, after which he will proceed to Chriatchurch. The municipal imbroglio at Hokitika has been brought to, a satisfactory termination, the recalcitrant mayor, Mr J. B. Clarke, having resigned, and our old fellow-townstnan, Mr William Todd, having been elected to fill the mayoral chair. The harvest laborers in the Arrow district had a strike last week for increase of pay. The wages given waa 30s a week and found, but they demanded £2, which wa3 acceded to. The oat crop is reported as unsatisfactory, while the yield of wheat is said to be very good. For the information of those interested in the export of corn to England, we may state that the average prices for British corn for the fifty-two weeks ending 30th September, 1871, were :— Wheat, 55s l£d j oats, 25s 2d ; barley, 365, per imperial quarter. There is still (says the Lyttelton Times) a scarcity of small silver in the city, more particularly of sixpences, and it is said that the latter has given rise to a bet that £50 worth of sixpenny pieces could not be collected within one week in Christchurch. The Age remarks : — " Operations hare been commenced again at the Melbourne glass works, after an interval of nearly two years. The company has been reconstituted, and in a short time it is expected to have the manufactory in full working order. At present sodawater bottles are turned out which are little if any inferior to the imported." The Government having succeeded in effecting an amalgamation of offices and a reduction of expenditure in WeetlanJ, Mr Harvey, Crown Prosecutor and County Solicitor of Westiand, has been appointed District Judge for Westland, and Examiner of Titles under the Land Transfer Act. The salary attached to the two offices doea n t exceed £600 a year. The last number of the New Zealand Gazette contains a return in detail of the Customs revenue of the Colony received during the quarter ended 31st December last. The total amount for the quarter was £193,079, being an increase of £5237 over the corresponding quarter in 1870. The receipts for the year 1871 were £731,883, as against £765,930 in 1870, being a decrease on tha year o£ £34,047. The quantity of gold exported during the year was 733,029 ozs. of the value of £5,787,520, as against 544,880 ozs, value £2,156,525, in 1870, being an increase of 185,149 ozs for the year. The following telegram appears in the Otago Times of the sth inst. It is dated Auckland, January 319t : — A house was burnt in Wakefield street last night, the fire being attended with singular circumstances, which are likely to form the subject of a lawsuit. The house was claimed by the Rechabites whose claim was resisted by one of their missionaries occupying the house. Tha Court decided in favor of the Rechabites, and the missionary threatened to burn the house, which was uninsured. He was the only occupant at the time of the fire, and all the furniture had been removed. He was arrested, but is out on bail. The wind was fortunately in a safe direction, otherwise the whole street would have been destroyed. It seems that the man Haley, charged with attempting to murder Mr Thomas Russell, of Auckland, has been sending violent threatening letters to that gentleman in name of the International Society. The following is a specimen of these productions : — " First and last intimation. Accumulation of wealth at the expense of, and by defrauding the humbler classes. The Caledonian book is closing. You are making a bad use of your wealth and position. Your wife is haughty and proud to those she ought to help. The International has condemned yourself, your wife, and family to death—poison, shooting, and stabbing. Property — fire. Servants who do not leave you after notice will share as their master. Finale within two years — tortures at every opportunity." It will be noticed by the advertisement published elsewhere that the New Zealand and Australian Land Company intend to lease land upon the Mataura Plains for the purpose of getting it broken up, cropped, and sown down in English grass. We understand that during the last two years the Company has let large blocks of land in the Oamaru district for a period of about 2£ years, during which time the contractors i plough the land three times and get two crops of grain. In addition to ploughing the land and harrowing in the grass seeds with the last crop, the contractors pay 10a an acre for each crop, and as yet, we are informed, they have found the undertaking a profitable one. We believe the Company does not desire any money rent for the Mataura Plains land, but will allow contractors to take two white crops in consideration for three plough ings and the necessary harrowing, which we think should make the undertaking a safe one for the contractors. The Company is to fence the land into suitable sized divisions. It is well known that there is no richer tract of land in New Zealand than the Mataura Plain, either for cropping or growing grass, and when the railway is opened through the centre of it, so that grain may be conveyed to the Bluff at a low rate, the growing of grain for export will pay here if it does anywhere else in the colony. 75 bushels of oats and 40 of wheat per acre is no uncommon yield for the plain, and even this year, we are informed that 300 acres of oats belonging to the Company are estimated to return 60 bushels to : the acre. j

' The Southern Cross says : — We understand that the Hon. Mr Yogel has negotiated in Sydney the sale of the debentures under the Wellington j Debts Act, 1871. The amount of the debentures was £66,000, bearing five per cent, interest, payI able in Sydney, and the price realised was £102, or £2 premium, being by far the highest price yet obtained for New Zealand debentures, whether in the colonies or at home. It speaks well for the credit of New Zealand that such a result should have been realised. We are informed that the price mentioned is net, and does not include any allowance for accrued interest. The Chicago Tribune says : — The extent to which the labor-saving implements have been introduced in agriculture we saw illustrated a day or two ago in Wisconsin. A farmer was seated on a reaper with gloves on his hands, and with an umbrella over him, and, with as much comfort as driving v buggy, he was cutting oats, the reaper throwing them into regular and conveI nient sheaves for binding and stacking. We re--1 member the time when, 20 years ago, we cut oats I without an umbrella or gloves, and let grain lie where it fell from the scythe Yet here was a man with a pair of boraes, in comparative comfort, doing more in one day than 25 men could have done by hand 20 years ago. It will be within the recollection of our readers that a prisoner named Andrew Hume, confined ia the Parramatta gaol, near Sydney, alleged that in his wanderings in the interior of Australia ho had discovered documents and other relics ol the ill-fated Leichardt expedition. The Government of New South Wales, after carefully considering the circumstances of the case, have released Hume on condition that he will at once proceed to the interior for the relics he alleges he found: The Government arranged with the South Australian Government to provide passage for Hume in the steamer Omeo, which left Newcastle for Port Darwin, with stores, 4c, for the telegraph construction party. The South Australian Government have also arranged to protect him as far as possible in his explorations, and have instructed their officers at Port Darwin to provide Hume with revolvers, blankets, and other necessary equipments for his journey to the West Coast. " While people are talking of a railway to India direct, to accomplish the passage from London to Calcutta in five days, the Vioaroy of Egypt," say* the Malta Times, " has actually commenced one of the most gigantic undertakings ever attempted in his territory — that of connecting Upper and Lower Egypt by rail. At the terminal point of all ancient and modern conquest, where the mighty Persian and Roman invaders found the desert an impassable barrier, the Khedive, assisted by an army of English engineers and navvies, will, unless stopped by the jealousy of the Sultan, drive an iron road and a team of iron horses, not only to the very confines of Nubia, but into the heart of Africa, opening up new fiel Is for commerce, and perhaps bringing home Livingston© first-class. Twenty of the engineers for the above undertaking passed through Malta recently on their way, and will be followed by the remainder of the staff in a short time. When it is considered that the line, commencing at the Second Cataract, is to be 600 miles long, some idea may be formed of the amount of labor required to complete the work." The people of Adelaide suffer frightfully from the excessive heat which prevails there during the summer months. The correspondent of a contemporary gives the following account of th© discomfort endured : — Glenelg is certainly becoming a very favorite watering place with citizens. It is very much like a fair there every hot evening, with amusements, refreshmant- stalls, booths, horses and traps, and people out of number. La9t night Adelaide seems to have flocked there en masse, and it was computed that there were between 4000 and 5000 visitors about the jetty. It seems rather astonishing that busses should succeed in obtaining full loads from the city at one o'clock in the morning ; but such was the case. -A. number of people, however, find * comparatively comfortable bed on the sand under the jetty, while a number of others similarly inclined, but unwilling to undertake the journey, content themselves by taking their abode in the city squares. Last night, lam informed, Victoria Square accornmo lated an unusual numI ber of respectable loggers. The Glenelg railway, which is being pushed on vigorously, will no doubt offer accommodation to all would-be excursionists, and show them a refreshing berth on the sand banks instead of in the city squares. A Dunedin contemporary giveß the following as the reason why the Land Transfer Act was passed : — Prior to 1860, when that most delusive Act, called the Land Registry Act, was passed, which was intended to be palmed off as Torrens's system, the people agitated for the adoption of " Torrens's Act," and it was alwaya a standing question for catechising electors to put to candidates for legislative honora. Since 1860 the people have never failed to agitate, and popular candidates have invariably inserted it in their printed addresses as a chef d'eeuvre ; but it was not until the session of 1869, when the Hon. Mathew Holmes, Captain Fraser, and others in the Legislative Council, denounced the exhorbitant charges made for conveyances of real estate, and instanced two oases where something like between £500 and £600 each were oharged by two solicitors for preparing the transfer of certain lands from one company to another, the title consisting of simple Crown grants. This was putting a " director upon the buffer" in the person of a large land owner, and the consequence was, Government brought down the Land Transfer Act the following year, 1870. The bills were taxed, but the taxing-master had to allow the rate charged ; because the Conveyancing Ordinance, which is still law, runt thus — " And for the purpose of further securing the simplicity and brevity of conveyances in ordinary use, and of affording at the same time an adequate remuneration for the trouble and responsibility of solicitors : Be it enacted that the sum to bo received for the drawing or engrossing of any purchase deed or mortgage deed, • shall bo a per centage upon the consideration money of such deed, according to the following rate, and no mora (that is to say), such : — Where the consideration money shall not exceed one hundred pounds, then the sum to be received shall be any sum not more than one pound, and when the consideration money shall exceed one hundred pounds the additional sum to be received shall be any sum not exceeding the rate of ten shillings for every additional one hundred pounds of such consideration money." It is not usual for the profession to act under this clause, but it suited the circumstances of the ease in point.

The New Zealand Gazette of the 26th ult. contains 8 proclamation by the Governor constituting the following, under the title of " The District Court of "Western Otago," as a district tinder the " District Courts Act, 1858," viz : — " All that area bounded towards the north by Milford Sound and the Cleddan River to its eource; thence by a direct line to Mount Christina ; thence by a line due east to the Otago Goldfield ; thence towards the east by the Otago Goldfield and the Mataura "River to the Tuturau Hundred ; thence by the northern and eastern boundaries of tie faid ETunored, and the meridian of 169 ° east longitude to the ocean ; thence towards the south and west by the ocean to Mi'ford Sound." This District Court is to have cognizance of all felonies and indictable misdemeanors committed within the district over which its jurisdiction extends, saving only the felonies excepted in and by the 4th clause of the eaid Act. Sittings of the Court are to be held at Invercargill, at the Supreme Court House, on the 10th February, 10th April, 10th June, 10th Angust, 10th October, and 10th December, in every year. The Bruce Standard (Tokomairiro) of the 3rd inst. §ay§ : — " There maj be some of our readers anx oub to know what further steps are being taken to promote the establishment of a butter factory in this distriot. We have authority for •fating that settlers and others are quite prepared to take 100 shares at £5, but the committee deem it advisable to teet the propriety or desirability of undertaking its eitablishment by a trial shipment of batter to England. For this purpose, flTe of the promoters of the factory, and who are also known to be the makers and curers of good butter, hare each furnished a firkin of from 50 to 60 lbs. , which will be shipped to the care of Mr Tallerman, who, it is hoped, will kindly dispose of it, and report the results. On Wednesday, we had the privilege of inspecting the different lota, and the mode of packing them, and, as far as we can judge, there is every probability of the butter arriving in London in good condition. The six firkins, after being headed up, were filled with a strong brine, then placed inside of another cask, strongly hooped, and the vacancies filled with oat seeds from the mill. We should have preferred salt, as being more likely to prevent the bad effects of heat ; but coarse salt is of such a price here as to make it too expensive. There will be also shipped at the same time two firkins, to the private order of a gentleman in Dunedin. A telegram appeared in a recent issue intimating that an assault had been committed by one of the Cagli troupe, now in Dunedin, in requital for an alleged libel. The Evening Star of the Ist inst. gives the following particulars : — The wellknown editor of " Graham's Review" received a very merited punishment to-day for inserting in hiß paper a most unwarrantable paragraph concerning a lady intimately associated with the Cagli troupe. As there was not the slightest foundation for the libel, it naturally roused the anger of the whole company, and one only remotely connected with it, seeing Graham hawking his papers at his accustomed corner, asked him what he had been saying about some of his principals in his Review. Whether an answer was given or not, we do not know, but in a moment after Graham lay sprawling on the ground, and his reviews scattered about, felled by a smart blow from the fist of his interrogator. Signor Cagli, who was close by, followed up this summary proceeding by a gentle kicking — after all a very mild punishment for as gross a libel as ever appeared in a paper. We never advocate physical force in such matters, but should not have regretted the employment of the ducking stool as a fitting punishment for co disgraceful an attack on a lady. What adds to the slander is the fact that two opportunities were offered for apology, which was refused. The matter was brought before the police court on the complaint of Graham, when Signor Cagli was fined one farthing, and the party who knocked complainant down 20b. A match was recently arranged between ten of the Invercargill rifle corps and an equal number of the Volunteers of Tokomairiro and Balclutha respectively, it being understood that the one score of the Invercargill men should stand against each of the others. The firing of the Invercargill team took place yesterday morning at the j Butts, with the following result, the position ' being — at 200 yards, standing ; 400 and 500 yards, kneeling : —

200 yds. 400 yds. 500 yds. Tl. Sergt. Thomson ... 25 24 17 —66 Cor. Craigie ... 23 24 18 —65 Sergt. A. Brown... 18 23 21 —62 Sergt. Dunlop ... 20 14 20 —54 Vol. R. Dunlop ... 24 16 14 —54 Vol. J. Dunlop ... 23 14 17 —54 Sergt. C. Brown ... 20 15 9 — 44 Ensign Ferguson... 15 15 12 — 42 Vol. W. Wesney... 23 15 3 —41 Vol. CocKroft ... 9 20 11 —40 Total number of points ... ... 522 Arerage, 52*20. I

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Southland Times, Issue 1535, 9 February 1872, Page 2

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