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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 49, 9 December 1867, Page 304

The people of Otago appear to estimate their province at its full value, judging from the report of a deputation which, on the 25th instant, waited on the Superintendent in order to induce- him to invite the Duke of Edinburgh to visit Otago. The hon. J. Hyde Harris, Mayor of Dunedin, is said to have urged that even if there were no other reasons for asking the Prince to honor the Province with a visit,there were the pounds, shillings, and pence to be thought of, which would be taken to Wellington if he'did not go South. Mr Macandrew, not for the first time in his political career, thought the less said about the money question the better, but Mr Harris drily suggested that as times went the consideration should not be lost sight of. A long discussion ensued, which only terminated by its being unanimously resolved that it could not be supposed tbe Prince had been to* New Zealand unless he went to Otago, and for him to come to the colony at all without paying a visit to Dunedin would be much the same as going to Victoria without seeing Melbourne. Bravo, Otago,-there is nothing like blowing one’s own trumpet after alL—Evening Post.

Bx a telegram received at Melbourne from Queensland, 12th Nov., we learn that a most atrocious outrage has just been brought to light. . Troopers. Cahill and Power, who composed the escort from Rockhamton to Claremont diggings, were despatched to the. latter place a few days ago, but not having reached their destination, a search was instituted, and the bodies of the tw.o men were found in their tent; the money which they had in their possession, to the amount of £4OOO, having been:taken by the murderers. A postmortem examination showed that the unfortunate men had been poisoned.

A Voice ieom thh London. —A bottle has been picked up this week in Exmouth Harbor,, containing a tailorß’s bUI, on the back of .which is written, “Lost in. the ship London—Francis Day; Advertise to my friends that-I have £3,000 in,the Lon-, don-.-and. Westminster Bank.”—Times, September 16. ' • : ' . Sib Geoege Bowen.— The Londonderry Guardiun" August 22, coiitaies the following .obituary .notice{—August 18,{the Rev. Edward Borden, > of deceasedwasfather;;of,Sir,Ge.orge;Bpwen, who iis to ;succeed Sir.'G. Grey :as Governor 7 of New-Zealahd. s--:k

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