FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 103, 11 December 1878, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The “ little war ” with the blacks at the Cape still continues. Father Henneherry is making many converts +o abstinence in Auckland. The shopkeepers of Auckland favor a Sa tu r day h a If- hol i day. Of t!ie LBOO voted for prizes for Volunteer competitions Canterbury receives L 53 Is. The wreck of the Sonthminster was sold on Friday last f>r L7OO. The captain valued the ship (s mod) at L 12,1 01, 'L’h3 Christchur h po ice are making a raid upon persons guilty of indecency in puhli . It is to he hoped that the public who have be n annoyed tliereby will not shirk the disagreeable duty of assisting them. Sir J. L. C. Eichardson, Speaker of the Legislative Counci 1 , and formerly Superin'en lent of Otago, died on Friday last at Dunedin. He will ho buried to-day with military honors. Vo'unteers attending vill be granted free passes. The result of an inquiry into the loss of the steamer Taranaki was that the loss was caused by an error in the compass, and probably by a current wuose rate was unknown, or not allowed for and by incorrect time, only a common clock having been used. She is not much damaged, and may be floated again. The seamen who struck on the A-S.N. Oo.’s boats have assaulted other men engaged for the boats. Diggers are leaving New Guinea. Great hardships were experienced in travelling during the rainy season. No payable gold has been found anywhere. The Missions promise to be successful. Varley the Evangelist is expected in Wellington. It is said that Lord Normanby has been offered, and has accepted, the Governorship of Victoria, and that he leaves for Me'bourne about the end of the month.

The telegraphs of New Zealand are being more and more used every day. The rivers of Westland are still flooded. The Dunedin School teachers think the new standard.syllabus too “stiff.” There have been several cases of children being lost in Christchurch lately. The rights to erect booths, &c., at the anniversary sports, Christchurch, sold for LBS.

The U.S. Co.’s steamer Rotorua starts from Dunedin on the 31st inst. for the West Coast Sounds excursion trip, and returns on the Bth January. The people of Wellington, or some of them, are trying to get up an anti-Chinese agitation. The Opawa arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday last, bringing 290 immigrants, 105 of the number being for Timaru. One life was lost on the passage, a sailor falling overboard and being drowned. The Timaru passengers were to have been landed direct, but the weather prevented this being done. The Sydney ‘ Evening News ’ says Sir Hercules Robinson has been offered, and will accept, the governorship of New Zealand. The statement is contradicted in Wellington. Eleven hundred people joined Father Henneberry’s procession in Auckland last Sunday. The news from the D’Urville copper mines is encouraging.

A heavy rain fell about Wellington on Sunday morning, and did a good deal of damage to both roads and bridges. A severe hafistorm damaged crops and broke windows about Picton on Monday. Christchurch and Sydenham contri uted L3OOO to the Waimate Relief Fund. Mr Ollivier collected L 2640 of this amount.

The Clutha continues to scour away the bank at Balclutha at a rapid rate. Protective works are to be commenced at once.