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Southland Times, Issue 1550, 12 March 1872, Page 2

We are pleased to learn that favorable advices have been received from Melbourne regarding recent shipments of timber made to that port. This fresh outlet comes very opportunely to our Bawmillers, wno were beginning to feel the effects of a glut in the Dunedin market. The Hon. Treasurer to the Southland Provincial Hospital requests us to acknowledge his receipt of £o 5s from Capt. Raymond of Avondale Station, including that gentlem m's subjcription, and sundries collected on the station on behalf of the Hospital. At a meeting of the General Road Board, h eld in Dunedin on the 7th inst., the application for a special rate of 3d per acre in the Waimatuku district was, objection being mile, referred back to the local Board. An application for a rate of 31 per acre in the New River district was referred to the District Engineer for his report. Yesterday the weather was very disagreeable, a drizzly rain, the usual accompaniment of a south-easterly wind, being its characteristic. To grain in stook it must; have been highly detrimental. A return of the unusually favorable weather for harvesting operations experienced during the past week is therefore highly desirable. Country residents complain that the charge made for carting their produce from the railway station to the stores is too high. They say that it is cheaper for them to come into town with their own drays, and deliver their produce themselves. We would recommend the town carters to consider tlie mitter, an 1 endeavor if possible to adopt a more liberal scale of charges. By the contents of a telegram received by the Secretary to the Invercargill Education Committee on Friday evening last, we are informed that Mr Lumsdon has succeeded ill bis mission to the Board of Education in Dunedin, and the erection of the Invercargill Grammar School, as proposed by the Committee, has been sanctioned. Tue work will therefore at once be proceeded with. " A Key to the Stamp Acts, being a digest of stamp duties payable in New Zealand, with directions on stamping instruments and cancelling stamps," is the title of a useful little work, a copy of which reached ua by last mail. It appears, so far as we can judge, to be an exhaustive treatise on the subject. The various articles upon which the impost is made are arranged alphabetically, so that for both mercantile as well as professional purposes it is a very handy reference. It is edited by Mr H. B. Scaly, late Deputy Commissioner of Stamps, Hawke's Bay, and is printed at the office of the Hawke's Bay Herald. It is a cheap volume, the price being Is 6i. The Tokomairiro races were held on Thursday and Friday last. The weather was good, and there was a very fair attendance of spectators. The Maiden Plate was won by Salamander Sam j the District Handicap by Mr Walters's Slander, Mr Robinson's Lyndon being second ; the Distance Handicap Trotting Race by Mr Coombe's Bobby ; the Flying Handicap by Mr Walters's Slander ; the Publican's Handicap by Mr Robinson's Lyndon ; the Handicap Hurdle Race by Pretender ; the Settlers' Race by Camilla ; the Tokomairiro Handicap by Yatterina ; and the Consolation Handicap by Catapult. Some months ago two horses were stolen from a paddock at Caversham by a man named Farley, and disposed of in Invercargill. Farley absconded, and for a time succeeded in eluding the police. Information has been received of his apprehension in Melbourne, and that he will be forwarded to New Zealand by an early opportunity. Another " wanted" individual, named Thomson, chaiged with an unprovoked assault at Halfway Bush, ha 3 been run down by the police in Dunedin. Kee Chang, of spurious gold notoriety, reached Dunedin the end of last week, and was remanded by the Dunedin Bench of Saturday laßt to Invercargill.

Mr S. M. South has been appointed County Solicitor for Westland. The last monthly escort from Q'lienstowa and irrowtown consisted of 3187 oza. The meeting of Assembly at present stands prorogued till the 29bh April. A San Francisco paper says that such snow stortn3 as those which have blocked up the mail trains are not likely to occur more than onoe in ten years. A navvy on the southern railway extension (Canterbury) is said to have declined to work there any longer on the ground that the scenery is so very uninteresting; Cyrus Haley intends moving in the Suprema Court, Auckland, for a change of venue to Wellington, on tbe ground that a strong feeling prevails in Auckland. Boyle, the Auckland storekeeper, charge! with the theft of £100 belonging to the Bank of New Zealand, alleged to have been an overpayment on a cheque, has been discharged. A race between the p.s. Nebraska and the s.s. Wellington, from Wellington to Lyttelton, resulted in the big boat beating the Wellington by three hours. We observe from a Taranaki paper fchafc our late fellow townsman, Mr Esaac Broad, has commenced business in that place. De Oarr announces in the same journal a series of seances, ■ By notification in the New Zealand Q-azetta of the 26th ult., Mr Kenneth "Rose is appointed Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Birfchs, Deaths, and Marriages, for the district of Invercargill. The Auckland registration returns show the number of deaths during the summer to have been exactly double those d uring the winter. The February returns show that one child out of three born dies within two years of its birth. The Oamaru Times is not surprised that in tho absence of Mr Yogel, the Government should have decided to hold the next meeting of Parliament at Wellington ; nor would it be surprise! if, on his return, the cabinet should reconsider the matter, and rescind its former decision. We (Canterbury Press) are given to understand that the large sum of £12,946 has been realised from the sale of land in this Province during the month of February, being an amount more than equal to one-third of the sum estimated as likely to be received during the whole of the present financial year from this source. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, a case of some interest to mining parties was decided. It was a claim of £48 for goods supplied to Kee Chang and party, who were engaged some time ago working a claim at Orepuki. Evidence was given to prove that the defendant Quan Hey was a member of the party, and judgment was given against him for tbe amount claimed, with costs. Mr Wade was counsel for plaintiff, and Mr Macdonald for defendant. All legally qualified medical men in th» colony are appointed public vaccinators. The Provincial Hospital, Invercargill, is appointed a place at which a stock of pure vaccine lymph will be kept for the supply, free of charge, to all Public Vaccinators and legally qualified Medical Men of such reasonable quantities of such matter as they may require, a supply of pure lymph having been obtained from the Medical Depart* ment at Melbourne. A large dog belonging to a resident in Boss, Westland, was recently missed, and its owner suspected it had fallen down one of the numerous abandoned shifts that exist in the vicinity of the town. As these are mostly very deep, the dog's owner had fully concluded that search was useless ; but, singular to relate, the dog was found after more than a fortnight's lapse of tiraa by a party of miners at the bottom of a deep shaft, and apparently none the worse for his fall or long fust. From a return published in the Q-azette, we find that there were 97,644 telegrams forwarded during the quarter ending December 31, showing an increase of 27.263 on the corresponding quarter of 1870. The cash revenue derived therefrom was £6,809 12s 61, showing an increase o£ £1,697 12s lid on the same quarter of the previous year. 'In addition there were forwarded £2,->93 93 3d worth of Government telegrams, b- ing an increase of £393 2a 9 i on the same quarter of 1870. From the eighth annual report of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society we learn that the trout in the society's ponds have increased amazingly in size, and appear in excellent condition. A large quantity of young fish have been reared from them, an 1 great credit iB duo to the Curator for his success. Several hundreds have already been liberated in various parts of the province , and others supplied to the Wellington and Auckland societies ; the only loss in removal being caused by the use of impure well water after the fish were out of the Curator's charge. A. shipment of 100 sent to Auckland reached their destination without a single loss. Those liberated by the society are in many cases known to be doing well. Some statistics of the population of the City of Auckland, compiled by the Southern Cross, show that, out of 22,370 persons living in Auckland and its suburbs, rather more than one in every thirteen persons are engaged in some one or other* branch of trade and commerce. If, after this says our con temporary, acomplaint is heard of "how dull trade is, to be sure," or, " there is nothing doing," or that " everything is overdone," people, in perusing the foregoing statistics, will probably know " the reason why." One thousand six hundred and ninety-five houses (many of them comprising two, three, or more in a firm) are engaged in supplying the city, suburban, and provincial wants of Auckland (excepting only such ports as receive their supplies out of the province). That we are overtrading among ourselves we think there can be no manner of doubt whatever. The Cologne Gazette gives the following summary of Dr Dollinger's speech, as rector of the University of Munich, on December 23 : — " After alluding to the glorious war and peace, and to the hostile feeling of Franco against Germany, Dr Dollingpr explained the mutual influence which the two nations have always exercised upon one another. France preserves even now and for the future her importance as interpreter and carrier of the scientiQc ideas. She owes her defeat chiefly to the absence of veracity in her literature, especially in the historical portion of it, which has prevailed for generations past. The 18th of July, 1870, brought to Germany a second war through the Roman declaration of war against 1 German science. The decrees of the Vatican

were launched only against G-erman science, and harl been prepared for 20 year 3by a systematic falsification of the theological text-booka. Once before Rome carried on war against science. It was against the natural science, and she succumbed. Now she combats against historical ■cience. A retrospective view of German history thows the necessity of the G-erman question being solved by the sword. By a just comprehension of the wants of the present rime the King of Bavaria gave the impulse to the creation of the Imperial dignity. The G-erman Emperor ia not a Cfflsar, but the Imperial head of independent princes and nations. The necessity for the continuance of the federal form is plain. As to the question which of the sciences received advancement or impulse by recent events, it ia to be answered that these sciences are, above all, history, beside her philosophy, and notably theology. The task of theology has to be conceived in a quite new spirit. Aa it formerly had been polemical it must now become eirenical (peace-making), and •work with the object that, as Germany created the separation of the churches, she may now bring about tho reunion, or at least the reconcilation, of confession, for which the beßt minda of all cultivated nations [calturvolker) are longing. He reminded his auditors that the duties of the nation have increased with its increase of power, especially with respect to the spread of religion and culture abroad and at home. He concluded by admonishing the students to show themselves able for the increased tasks of the present time by diligence and morality."