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Southland Times, Issue 1645, 8 October 1872, Page 2

Thomas Poole, a stockman in the employment of Mr Bell, on Croydon station, was drowned on Friday morning, in the Mataura, while crossing a mob ol* cattle, near Dorr's hotel, at Otameite. The horse he was riding was also drowned. Some of the cattle broke away, and in going after them, Poole got into a deep rlace in the river. The horse was seen to turn back over upon him, and both disappeared. After a short time they came a,aiu to the surface, the horse on its back, and the deceased across its belly, but; iin mediately both sank again, and were seen no more. Constable Purdue started on hearing of the accident in the hope of recovering the body, but the river being somewhat high, he has not been successful, and it is feared that it has been carried down some distance, if not out to sea. We have h:id an opportunity of inspecting the handsome Clydesdale entire, Dan O'Connell, the property of Mr Scoles, who has recently arrived in Invercargill. We are gUd to find that the horse is likely to remain in the district for this season, as he is a really splendid specimen of a draught horse, and will be a decided acquisition to the horse breeders of Southland. At the meeting of the Southland Land Board on Friday, all the members wore present. Mr M'Pheraon appeared on behalf of Mr G. M. Bell, for permission to alter the description of his application for section 312, Hokanui district. Permission granted. The application of Samuel Campbell for 24 acres, Forest Hill Hundred, was granted. Messrs Maclean and Buchanan were granced a license to cut timber in Seaward Busli as follows : — 160 acre3 to be cut over, and -ISO acres to be reserved. Permission was also granted to the same firm to cut a tramway through Mr \ Fraser's extended reserve. Mr M. Fallow appeared on behalf of the Wardens of the Jacob' a . River Hundred, to obtain the assent of the Board to a new bye-law, providing for the infliction of a penalty of £5 for breach of the regulations. Assent granted, and bye-law ordered to bo gazetted. The Provincial Government Gazette of the 2nd inst. notifies that Messrs Cornelius Barry, Janiea Thyne, and James Watson have been appointed members of the Riverton Road Board, the sufficient number of members for the said district not having been elected at the first general election held under the Roads Ordinance ; and that Constables Purdue, Wohlman, and Barry have been appointed inspectors of slaughter-yards for I Mata.ura, Nokomai, and Campbelltown respectively. Tenders are invited for a briJge over the Makarewa, on the North Road. A meeting of the Railway Committee was held last night, at which a report of the proceedings of the Committee since its appointment was adopted, and it was resolved that the Mayor be requested to call a public meeting on Wednesday, 16th inat., to hear the report, and receive the resignation of the Committee.

Thursday, being the half-yearly Presbyterian fast-day, will be observed as usual as a holiday. A telegram from Wellington on Friday states that Mr Moorhouse has been defeated by 24 in the contest for the representation of Egrnont. At the meeting of the Otago Waste Land Board, held in Dunedin on the 2nd inst., a letter was read from the District Lund Officer, Invercargiil, asking instructions as to how to deal with land in block 3, Toi Tois, applied to be bought, and said to be auriferous. The matter waa referred to the Government, with a view of having the nearest Warden to report. The decision of the Government on the complaint of settlers at Toi Tois regarding the wny in which money was expended on roads in that district, was noted. The decision waa, that it declined to interfere with existing arrangements. A Lincoln sheep in Canterbury lately gave birth to four live ewe latnbs. The same sheep, last year, had three, chua producing seven a* two births. | A mare at Wodonga, N.S.W., has recently dropped four foals. To hold out a prospect now of surrendering the confiscated land the Southern CrO3s) is to tempt the natives to a renewal of claims which they have long since abandoned. It is to invite them to assume a position that would inevitably prove disastrous to the peace of the country, and it is to encourage them in a spirit ol discontent and bravado which will render their proximity intolerable for the future to the white population. What we have now pointed out is but one of Mr Stafford's ill-considered and yery objectionable proposals. For a person resident in London to send to Melbourne fir his boota, says the Argu*, will be i regarded as a somewhat startling circumstance. Nevertheless the phenomenon has occurred. Mr M'Guigan, of Collins-street, has received a letter from a former customer, a well-known Sydney merchant now residing at home, containing an order for several pairs of boots. The writer added i that he could get nothing ia London so well made as the colonial article. Tlie letter is written in a plain, business-like, straightforward way, which leaves no ro3m whatever for the slightest suspicion as to the writer's perfect sanity. Messrs Thomas and Fox, fellmongers, Melbourne, failed some three years ago, for about £800, and paid 10s in the pound, receiving a complete release from their creditors. The creditors were agreeably surprised the other day by receiving the balance in full. The master of the schooner Sunbeam announces in the Auckland papers that in future no alcoholic liquors will be received on board his vessel as freight. The long-talked-of dinner to Mr Horace Bastings, late Mayor of Lawrence, came off on the 26th. Ult., when that gentleman was presented j with a silver salver, ani tea and coffee services, | as well as an illuminated address. In returning thanks Mr Bastings said he came to Tuapeka about six years ago. Then there were no streets, footpaths, Town Council, or water in the town. Now they had all these, and handsome buildings, and other substantial marks of progress in their midst. He hoped that Lawrence would still progress, and that those havi ij large stakes in the country would take some interest in those things which were for the public benefir, and remember that money-grubbing was not man's chief end. The Otago Times of the 2nd inst. says :— The sum of £48,374 8s 7d, rental from run% was paid into the office of the Receiver of Land Revenue yesterday ; and a further su>n of Jt£8,370 was to be paid at Invercargill yesterday. This makes a total of £56,714 8a 7 d. This su'ii is exclusive of rent on ruus in the late Province ot Southland, and the biiih of £3,370 mentioned is paid at Invercargill instead of Dunedin fo;- conveniense. There is also a sum of about £220 due on the Ist January naxt for licenses under the old regulations. The amount paid in yesterday does not include assessment on stock on goldfields commonage. The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star, in noticing a debate in the Assembly in Committee of Supply, reports that Mr ]?jx, in the course of hia speech, said : — Lasf year they wer<? told by one member that the Estimates could be reduced by £50,000, and another shouted out £100,000. Where were those i members now ? They were on the Gjvernraent benches, and the House had a right to see how and where those reductions could be mide. Where was that great apostle of economy, Mr Calder, who so vehemently denounced the late Government, that he had not one word to say ? After Mr Fox had had his say, the House was fairly roused, expecting to have a gala night of it, and its expectations were not disappointed. When Mr Vogel rose to speak, members were all in their places, and cheer after cheor was raised at every telling point made in his speech. Mr Stafford luoked unnaturally blue •, Hr lieia gave his usual seli-satisSed, sneering smile ; Mr Gillies was evidently boiling over with rage ; and M r Fitzherbert, with his usual grave-looking countenance, looked, as was wittily remarked, like a cockatoo on a Sun lay — evidently crest-fallen. Referring to the resignation by Mr John M'Lean of his seat in the Legislative Council, the Oamaru correspondent of the Waikouaiti Herald says : — "The hon. gentleman is unmistakeably an honest politician, and what he says be means, and may be depended upon. He has not stated publicly his reasons for resigning his seat, but by reference to Hansard, I find that towards the termination of last session he boldly stated, in a debate upon the Harbor Improvement Bill, that the Council, »3 constituted, was not of that independent character tint should make tne^i ambitious to have a seat there, and that he would take no further part in legislation which could be moulded to any shape or form by the Ministry of the day. At the time, I, with ofcuers, thought this to be only an impulsive expression of momentary indignation, but he has kept his word ; and I understand that the step he has taken is not without a motive, viz., to call the public attention to the fact that a nominee tTpper House for New Zealand ia a break on legislative progress, and the posvtiou of its members such as should not be retained by honest and independent men. If he ever returns to Parliament, I believe it will be as a representative man elected by the people. It would be well if other members of the Council were to follow his example." An intercolonial ploughing match is to take place at Cambridge, Tasmania, on the 17th inst. i

Referring to the great rise in the price of coal which has recently taken place in England, the Economist says :— Within the last two or three years, there has undoubtedly been an immense increase in eTery Bort of maaufacture throughout the -world. Railroads have been extended, eteatoera have been multiplied, machinery in erery trade has been increased, the effect of machiner has been daily intensified by new inventions. The result is that the producing power of mankind is at a higher pitch than it has ever been, and it follows that not only are the raw materials of everv manufacture in great demand, as they are in every prosperous period, but the instruments of production, especially coal, are now in pre-eminent demand. Production has increased so rapidly from a variety of causes that it has overtaken the supply of the instruments with which it works, and coal is the great instrument. Experience and theory combine to teach us that in such circcunistances the article so much in request should go to famine prices. , The returns for 1871, (aaya the Melbourne Telegraph), correct a prevalent idea about the | matrimonial alliances effected by John Chinaman. | These unions are popularly supposed to be an amalgamation of the Celestial and Celtic races, but the Chinaman's taste appears to have changed. There were thirty-three of our yellow-viaaged visitors married in 1871, and of these only three took Irish wives, eight became allied with English families, and the brides of twenty were of Australian birth. The chances are, of course, that these latter were mere girls, who ought to be blushing brides indeed, for they should blush for I shame. .