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Southland Times, Issue 1568, 23 April 1872, Page 2

( Afc the meeting of the Waste Lan is Board, D uned in, on Wednesday, Mr R. W« Aitkin applied to purchase his pre-emptive right, under clause 83 of the Waste Lands Act, 1866, and offered to abide by the biun laries to be fixed by the Government Surveyor. Consideration postponed. On Friday, 12th inst., the settlers in the neighborhood of Flint's Bush kept harvest home, olebrating the, occasion by a ball in Mr Ja:nes Hamilton's large barn. A local correspondent, to whom we are indebted for the information, waxes eloquent in hia description of the festivities. There were about sixty persons pres ent. The Hobart Town Mercury urges the cult ivation of the phonnium tenax in Tasmania, the climate and soil of w!iich, it is informed by an Auckland gentleman formerly resident in the island, are admirably adapted for its growth, Our contemporary conclules as follows : — lt will not bo creditable to those who now complain of I being ruined by their land being fluky, if they I fail to grow a crop so valuable, and so specially j adapted to such land, as is New ZeaUni fl;ix. We learn from the Wellington Independent that tho Hon. M!r Fox delivered a, lecture lately in Hokitika upon "The Lijuor Traffic," though, as Mr Fox said, the tile did not represent the matter of the lecture. It was listened to by •' the lar J63t and most attentive au iicnce that has ever filled the Town Hall." Mr Button was chairman, ani at its close he expressed hie gratification at listening to the lecturj, and stated that his scruples had been entirely removed, and he should at once sign the pledge. Despatches from Dundee give accounts of a widespread devastating flood in the Valley of tht* Tay. The waters of the Firth and River Tay overflowed the banks, ani poured into the plains on both sides, sweeping everything before them, from Dundee, at tin mouth of the Firth, to a point above Perth, on the south side of the River Tay, and the head of navigation. The level country found near the latter city was covered with water, and portions of Dundee rendered uninhabitable. The railroads between the two cities were washed awiy in m my places, and much road bad must be rebuilt In Dundee, the damage to property wa3 immense. The lowjr storeys of several large warehouses, filled with jute and flax, were flooded, and thousands of bales of flax destroyed. No estimate can be formed of losses in the country along tho river banks. Those who remember Mr Joseph Exall when in Invercargill will be gratified to learn that, acting as W. P. (whatever that may mean), he has had the honor to initiate the Premier into a society entitled the " Sons of Temperance." The following account of the affair appears in the Lyttelton Times : — The members of the Perseverance Division of the Sons of Temperance met last evening in the Oddfellows' Hall, Montreal street north, when the Hon. W. Fox wae initiated an honorary member. Five other oandidates were also initiated. The initiation ceremony was choral, with harmonium accompaniment. The officers for the ensuing quarter were then installed by the W. P., Mr Exall, under authority delegated to him by the D. M. W. P. for New Zealand, the Rev. Thomas Roseby, M. A. The Hon. W. Fox having addressed the Division, the proceedings wore closed with the customary ceremonies. " Gold," says the Auckland correspondent of a contemporary, "is said to have been discovered at Tuhua, a placo situated in Upper Wnikato, say 60 miles south and west of Ngaruawahia, not far from the Ngatiraukawa . country, and looking towards Wanganui. An experienced digger, who has prospected between Wanganui and Upper Waikato, tolls me ho is confi lent those districts are auriferous, and partly alluvial, and says he and his mate obtained some gold thereabouts several years ago, but they were ordered off by the Kingites. Last Sunday a Urge number of Waikatos were about to start for Tuhua to dig, but were restrained by Tawhiao, for what reaso» Ido not exactly know. .Rowi ani some followers were en route for Tuhui on the Ist insfc. There is reason- for believing that tho greater part of the rough country lying between Oambriige, Lake Taupo, and Wanganui, is gold-boaring." At the meeting of the Invercargill School Committee on Friday last, all the members of committee were in attendance. The meeting was almost an extempore one, being mainly for conference with Mr Hi slop (the Inspector of Schools) who had engaged to be present, on the general position of the committee in reference to the school now in course of erection. The site committee brought up its report, which was confirmed, and the necessary steps were taken to complete the acquisition of a section deemed by the committee desirable to purchase or obtain by exchange. Mr Hislop, in answer to inquiries by various members of the committee, reported as to the necessary school staff, upon the scale of numbers, as shown by experience- at Oamaru, Tokomairiro, and elsewhere, a.nd with the view of obtaining applicants for the head-mastership from as wide a field as possible, it was resolved to invite applications for the ; appointment forthwith in the New Zealand and Colonial journals. The suggestion to obtain a master direct' from home, by power of appointment to agent there, was made, but dismissed as impracticable. The missing Arthur Orion has at last turned up in the person of the Tichborne claimant, and, when the last news left England, was in Newgate awaiting his trial for perjury. It appears that Orton had a mark tattooed on his arm, and another, like a ring, on one finger. These marks were not to be seen on the claimant's arm or finger, but instead of them there were deep depressions which might have been caused by burning them out, and of which he could not give any account. Then it appears that tho late Roger Tichborne had been tattooed on the arm with a cross, an anchor, and a heart, emblems of faith, hope, and charity, with the initials R.C.T., no trace of which was to be seen on the claimant's arm. This was the first evidence brought forward by the defence. The contents of the sealed packet were also known, and proved to be exactly the reverse of what the claimant had stated them to be. The alleged seduotion of Miss Doughty, now Mrs Radcliffe, was proved to have been impossible at the date assigned by the claima* c i and the lady's own evidence appears to * aye commando I universal respect and sympathy* On the 5 ill March, the case was stopped by che jur* and the claimant's oounsel agreed to a non-f • Orton was then taken into custody for^p«< urT by order of. the judge ; bail, fixed^r^ 00^' i. i. v v j j*un ."dot hare undernot to be had j and the Oojftiifr on d s tae intetaken the prosecutionj,«^t r i a i t rest of this extrao*"*"^