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Charleston Argus, 2 March 1867, Page 3

down ago a party of river, and nothing of them till last Thursreturned with 40oz. of gold and then went back to the A small rush proportionate to took place ; the Wanganui was pretty well depopulated, and there betook themselves to the new These are situated between and thirty miles up the river, the gold has been found in a beach and creek about ten miles apart. Gold been struck on the north beach, on the th beach, and up the river ; and, in gold is everywhere. The gold is of ferent descriptions, but everywhere can got, On the sea beach it is fine, as erywhere else ou the coast, and can only secured by the same means. On the er beach it is flat, scaly, and large, some he pieces being nearly as large as a pence, but a great deal thinner. It is e the Totara gold, and is totally free m quartz. Up the creeks, the tributes of the Karameai it assumes a different ■racter. It is fine, flat, beautifully pure, H. very heavy. In the sea beaches it is as in the other beaches on the coast. Be river beaches it is got as on the on a granite formation and on This is rather contrary to Dr theory but I cannot help facts science at times. The gold is scores of people can testify to With respect to the creek, the has been got in an elbow existed, and here, as on the found on the surface. The beds tried, but the gold hitherto and several proofs of it boat that takes this communiMaoris boast that they can the case surely Europeans do more. The Maoris, as been desperately hard and no one need think of cannot hump a good The country is very , and the utmost. A bridle might without difwould, I believe, goldfields on the, present the road prefaculties, and none but encounter them. If the right result to I have stated, otherwise has only consequences. I who have already to return through they gay they a much larger lot generally in the abounds with food not fear star. epen where the and the Karamea have no thoup by the in the offering stated, gin, or That this. i)ii 1 ith

—'-Evening Mail. Newspaper Postage by Panama.— The " Hawke's Bay Herald," of the 2nd instant, says: —The Panama mail forwarded yesterday, contained in all thirty-two newspapers ! A striking illustration of the baneful effect of the new postal regulations, which, by putting a prohibitory tax upon the transmission of newspapers, virtually annihilates a powerful immigration agency, and gives the first blow to the efficiency of the Panama route. It is the most deplor ably short-sighted policy we ever heard of. On this the " Wellington Advertiser " remarks:—We must, however, explain that the Government has been forced into this "short-sighted policy" by the action of the Panama Railway Company, who charge them at the rate <»f threepence per newspaper for everyone sent across the isthmus. As an example of the enormous charges made by this company we may mention that the book packages sent home by Government by this r ute in the first steamer cost something like £IBO for postage, and those in the second about £250. The Government has consequently since then sent all such packages—of which a large number are forwarded by each mail containing voluminous documents for the Home Government —by the Suez route, and receives blue books, «i-c., from home by the same route. We believe that as soon as ever the heavy postage on newspapers across the Isthmus of Panama is reduced, a corresponding reduction in the postal charges will be made here.

As an instance of the decline in the value of property in some parts of Victoria, the Argus mentions that the Lockwood Hotel, ar.d the land on which it is built, on the main road to Sandhurst, were sold a few days ago for £,'2o. The hotel was built a few years ago, at a cost of between £6,000 aud £7,000, and was owned by Mr G. Dodson, now of Port Chalmers. New School for Manners.—The Melbourne correspondent of the " Advertiser," writing of the aboriginai cricketers, says : —" Our sable friends are somewhat Chesterfield Lin in their ideas, as the following incident will show. Yesterday the 4 0l polloi' were crushing round them while at practice, when one of them, Cusens, I believe, remarked to Bullocky, ' Dese Melbourne people got no manners.' The ht- j ter, who is the funny man of the team, replied, 1 Manners! How they know ? bout manners? they never on a station." "Chalking up" is an abolished institution in Southland. In the Southland Provincial Council au ordinance has been introduced to amend the Licensing Ordinance, 1865. The following is one of the clauses: —''Every holder of a license who shall sell otherwise than for ready money any liquor to any person for consumption on the premises, shall forfeit aud pay for every such offence not less than ten shillings and not more than five pounds. Provided that any sale of liquors for consumption with meals supplied to any person " bona tide " lodging in the house of the holder of the license shall not be deemed an offence within the meaning of this section." Feat in Oratory.—A member of the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver's Island spoke in that House recently for seventeen hours, in order to prevent a bill of much local interest from passing before the close of a particular day which had been appointed as the limit of time for making certain payments. The last twenty-four hours of the twelvemonth alone remained, when this gentleman, Mr. M'Clure, began his speech. The "Examiner" says : —"Every effort was made by the majority to put him down and tire him out. With a merciless unanimity they refused to allow him to lean against the table, to put his foot upon a chair for a moment, to relieve himself from the irksomeness of his position by resting his hands upon anvtl ing, or to speak, in short, in any other than a rigidly erect and unsupported attitude During the whole of the time they relieved each other at intervals, going out aud procuring: such refreshments as they needed, and I always leaving a quorum in the House. ' When M'Clure sank exhausted into his seat, Mr. I)e Comos rose, and for the remaining seven hours of the twenty-four i talked against time. On rising, amidst I the groans and hisses of the disgusted and he exclaimed, manner, he Gabriel endurclock pardonable

London" publishes of muider of a jockey BBid M'Keever a match at Cliifago between t .v.» 'i.-'ebratod trotting horses named Cooky ana General Butler. Cooley, a Western horse, was the favourite, and won the first two hea s easily. Then M'Keever, the owner of General Butler, suspecting foul play, determined on displacing the jockey by whom hib horse had been driven, and oil driving the animal himself, the result was that the General won the next two heats. By the time the horses were ready to start for the deciding heat it was almost dark ; the crowd of roughs assembled was immense, and Mieir excitement indescribable; for Cooley had been the favourite at the begining and had been backed heavily. The trotters started for the fifth heat Riley, the driver of Cooley, took the outside track, and was seen to bear hardly on General Butler, so as to force his antagonist close to the inside rail ingy of the course. M'Keever's voice was heard shouting to Riley to give him room ; then came a crash and a cry, and General Butler emerged out of the darkness, and went steaming past the Grand Stand without a driver, followed by Cooley, steadily driven by Riley, who claimed the stakes. But it was discovered that a trap Lid been successfully laid for the driver Butler, by so arranging a from a neighbouring fence that strike him across the face as he along the inside of the course. therefore declared the race to be Riley and two accomplices were arrested on a charge of murd(^^B