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Southland Times, Issue 1819, 18 November 1873, Page 2

A short time ago we had occasion to refer to the delay which wai taking place in the completion of the extension of the Bluff wharf. Since then the work has been carried on, under the superintendence of the Government, with very satisfactory results, inasmuch as it is hoped that the extension will be completed this week. The repairs to the old portion of the wharf will, we understand, be pushed on as speedily as possible. The Right Reverend Dr Moran, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, arrived in town on Saturday morning, from Queenstown. His Lordship preached on Sunday, morning and evening, to large congregations in St. Mary's Chapel, Clyde street. A train started from the Invercargill station, shortly after noon on Sunday la-it, for the Bluff, in order to bring up the passengers by the Wallabi, that vesael having arrived from Dunedin in the course of the morning. It does not appear to be generally known that since the 25th of July last, tho Railway Manager has been in possession of instructions from tho Provincial Government to run a train on Sundays on the arrival of steamers at the Bluff. For upwards of three months the necessity for acting on this authority has only arisen once. A man named Thomas Marshall was received into the Hospital on Friday morning with his collar bone broken. He was brought from the Five Kiver Plains station, where the accident occurred, and where he had gone looking for shearing. The immigrants who arrived on Thursday last were all engaged the next day. The Immigration Officer reports that be could have found employment for 150 more. Spencer's Island, in Bluff Harbor, has become the property of I)r Grigor. Tho suitability of this island for quarantine purposes is generally acknowledged, and the General Government are blameworthy for not having secured it, the desirability of doing bo having been repeatedly brought under their notice.

The Registrar of the Supremo Court hell a sitting in Bankruptcy at the Council Hall in Kelvin-street yesterday, in the matter of John Campbell, a bankrupt, on application for final Drder and discharge. Mr Harvey appeared for bankrupt. The trustee's report filed referred to the incompleteness of the bankrupt's accountbook, which had been partially explained by iffidiivit. There w:is only ono creditor in attendance, and no opposition, and the bankrupt was examined by the Registrar relative to payments on account of works under his contract, and the discharge was granted. Attbes-ile' of leases of Educational Reserves yesterday, the followm^ prices were realised : — Sections 31, 32, nnd 35, block 15, Jacob's River Hundred, were s>l.l to Mr Bnird at Is 6d an acre per annum ; secti >n 10, block G, New River Hundred, to Mr Grieve at 7s 6 1 an acre per annum; section 22, block 46, town of Invercargill, to Mr M'Gillivray at £1 per annum ; section . 2, block 51, town of Invercargill, to Mr Stock at £1 per annum ; and section 2, block 4-3, town of Invercargill, to Mr Jaggers at £3 per annum. An inquest into the sudden death of the infant son of Alfred Sylvester was hold yesterday afternoon in the Clarendon Hotel, Esk street. The whole of the evidence tended to show that death resulted from natural causes, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. A man named Thomas Grower, one of the crew of the Wall.ibi, while working among some timber on a truck at the Bluff yesterday, in jumping clear of a log, fell and broke hia right leg. He wis received into the Hospital last evening, when his leg was set by Di % Grigor. A requisition, addressed to His Worship the Mayor, was in course of signature yesterday, with the object of having a meeting of ratepayers convened for to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Council Hall, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proposed diversion of Tay street. The brothers Ford, who were recently remanded from the Resident Magistrate's Court here to Riverton, whence warrants had been issued charging them with, a breach of the Impounding Ordinance, were brought up at the Riverton Courthouse yesterday, before Messrs Daniel and Cook, Justices of the Peace, and discharged. A meeting of the committee appointed to take the necessary steps for establishing a. local Steam Shipping Company was held last evening. The question of direct communication with Britain w.ia considered at some length, an I it was ultimately decided to a 'journ the meeting till this evening, when the advisability of embracing the direct trade with Britain with the local Steam Shipping Company will be finally settled. The Honorary Secretary of the Southland Acclimatisation Society has received from His Honor the Superintendent an extract from a letter of date 2nd October, 1873, sent by His Honor to Mr Auld, British Emigration Agent for Otago, as follows : — I hive this day requested you by cable to obtain another shipment of salmon ova to be shipped in one of the smartest o; Patrick Henderson and Co's clippers, said ova to be shipped at Glasgow for Bluff Harb r direct, together with as many immigrants as can be had for the same port. . . . You will have gathered from my cablegram that unless the shipment can be male from the Clyde, it is not to be undertaken. The object of making this a sine qua non is, that as a rule the Glasgow ships make the pissage in a shorter time than thosg from London, and the success of the experiment depends upon the length of the voyage beiu^ shortened." The Inverc-ir^ill District Road Bo.ird met on Thursday evening last far the despatch of business. P esent Mr John Hare (chairman), and Messrs Brownlie, Gilrnour, Brovn and Burrows. The ratepayers of the Catnpbelltown subdivision wrote protesting against a special rate, and the clerk was instructed to notify that a general rate of one shilling in the £ only would be levied. On the revision of the rate book, the clerk was instructed to inform several persons that amendments increasing the rateable value of their properties had been made. A general rate of one shilling in the £ was made upon all rateable property within the district. Mr J. Maher's contract, at £23 10s, for K.ew road, was accepted. The clerk was instructed to call for various tenders in connection with roads, streets, footpaths, and ditches ; and also to apply to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for leave to take gravel from the banks of the Waihopai river 'for works in that district. The Engineer was directed to report on the best course for the outfall of the drainage at Clifton. Mr Brown's morion, fi-iin » members of the Board for late attendance, having been affirmed, and instructions given for the drafting of a bye-law in accordance therewith, the Board adjourned till Thursday, the 27th inst. The Was^e Lands Board met yesterday at one o'clock. Present — the Chief Commissioner, and Messrs M'Culloch, Baker, and M' Arthur. Mr Brown's application, which had been held over from a previous sitting, was again real. The application was for leave to erect a sawmill for the purpose of cutting railway sleepers in a certain portion of Winton Bush j and the Chief j Commissioner read a report from the Inspector of Forests, which showed that the settlers did not utilise the timber, and that the erection of a sawmill would tend to increase the prosperity of the neighborhood. The Board, however, thought that if it went on granting sawmill licenses all the timber in the district would soon be destroyed, and it accordingly resolved — " That no license be issued in the Woody Kdoll Bush for the cutting of sleepers, but that the bush be reserved for the settlers." A report from the Inspector of Forests in reference to Mr Judge's desire that the Board should grant him a certain portion of land for pottery works in the Waikiwi Bush, was read and adopted. After some discussion the Board resolved — '* That a lease be granted to Mr Judge under the Mineral j Regulations, after Mr Judge has erected his plant, subject to the approval of the Board, and commenced working." In the Provincial Government Gazette of the 12th inst., the following reserves aro notified : — Suction 2, block 3, Riverton, reserved for educational purposes ; section 21, block 1, Riverton as a site for an Athenffiuui ; and block 4, Greenhills township, and the land between the said block and the railway, together containing 6a,. 2r. 16p., as a stone reserve for the municipality of Invercargill. For the supply of 30,000 ft. of timber for the Wuipukurau railway, in the province of Napier, no tender was received — a result said to be attributable to the extraordinary scarcity of labor in that part of the Colony. J

A wonwn named Jane Duke die 1 in the Dunedin Hospital on Friday last, whilst under the influence of chloroform, undergoing an operation for cancer. The prospectus of a Stenm Shipping Company, with a capital of £250,000, is published in the Dunetiin papers. From the 18th of November, 1872, to the 30th August, 1873. the Agent-General despatched 5133 emigrants to the Colony. Their nationality was as follows :— English, 3 1 1 9 ; Scotch, 1282 ; | Irish, 1039 ; Welsh, I'i3 ; Germans, fis ; Danes, I 300 ; Swedes, 15 ; Norwegians, 259 ; other countries, 95. At the last meeting of the Queenstown Municipal Council, the fallowing resolution was adopted :— " That this Council, regretting the delay in the construction of the Winton-Kmgston railway, would urge the Government to take active measures for the completion of the line by calling for tenders for No 2 section." We would suggest that the Railway Committee should also direct its attention to this matter. In replying to the toast of the Ministry at the Canterbury Agricultural Society's dinner, the Hon. Mr Yogel referred to the great progress and prosperity of Canterbury. Remarking upon the railway scheme, he said the conception of the grand idea was due to Mr Moorhouse, formerly Superintendent of Canterbury. The face of Canterbury, with a population under nino thousand, undertaking the construction of a railway from Lyttelton to Christnhurch, at a cost ot a quarter of a million, was comparatively a matter of greater magnitude than the Colorial railway policy associated with his (Mr Vogel's) name. In fact it was the beginning of that policy. Railways should be looked on as ordinary roads, in regard to which the question " Will they pay interest on cost of construction ?" should never be asked, especi illy by the Government, whose onlj desire should be to open up and settle the country. In this way repayment would be equally sure, though indirect. The Lake District Jockey Club have decided to erect a grand stand at a cost of £315. A Dunedin contemporary says that the establishment of Insurance Companies seems to be a popular occupation in that city at the present time, a preliminary meeting of gentlemen favorable to the establishment of a third Fire and Marine Insurance Company having been held. A contract has been accepted for the erection of a Grair.mar School at Qu-eenstown at a cost of £900. The Board appointed to enquire info the tru of the statement that Mr Ross, the teacher of the Tokomairiro Grammar School, had flogged a pupil because lie was not present when the Bible was read, have reported that there exists no foundation whatever for the statement. On the Oamaru-Waitaki railway line the contractors are sai 1 to be using all labor-saving appliances — a3, for instance, a scoip drawn by hor»es, which does the work of ten or twelve men. 1 The carpentere and joiners of Christchurch : are endeavoring to obtain an increase in the rate of wages by Is per day. So far, the masters ! have refused to concede this. The present rates are 9s to 11s. It is suspected that the fires which have recently occurred in Auckland are the work of an ineendinry. The Government offers a reward of £250 for the diseovory of the perpetrator or perpetrators. At the exhibition of the C interbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, held on the 13th iiist., Ml'ssss Sutton Eros., of Southland, took four out of the six prizes for Lincoln sheep. A too' len factory is about to be erected in the Kaikorai Valley, near Dunedin. Mr Carrington his been re-elected Superintendent of Turanaki. The jury in the case of White v. M'Kellar indignantly refused to accept the paltry sum of a guinea each, which the law allowed them for their twelve days' services, and requested His Honor Mr Justice Chapman to allow the amount to be handed over to the Benevolent Institution, which was done. Between the Ist of April, 18V7, and the 30th September last, 7,116,835 ozs. of gold, valued at £27,fi29,336 hare been exported from New Zealand. At Catlin'a River the export trade in sawn timber at present represents an average of 15,000 feet per day. The lo?al paper says that oats are now selliiig at 8s 6 1 per bushel in Cromwell. The Rev. S. Macfarlane, of the United Methodist Freo Church, has left London for New Zealand, to take the oversight of the missions of that Church in this Colony. From a Dunedin contemporary we learn that at the meeting of the Education Board, hell on the lAfh, Mr Donald Petrie was unanimously elected Inspector of Schools. Mr P.'trie, who is stated to be 27 years of a c, hods the position at present of Senior Classical Master of the Scotch College, Melbourne. He is an M.A.. of Aberdeen and Melbourne Uuirersities, is reported to have hid a varied and most valuablo experience, and has been highly recommend d by trustworthy and competent authorities. In all, twenty-nine applications were received by the Board. We would remind our readers that Mr Twinning* mu:nesil entertainment comes off at the Theatre Royal to-irorrow night. It is elsrwhere announced that the Star Mammoth Troupe will make a first appearance before an Invercargill audience on Thursday evening. This company has earned golden opinions in different parts of the Colony, and a treat of no ordinary kind may therefore be anticipated.