THE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3351, 13 April 1868, Page 2

THE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.

By the arrival of they ' Airedale * yesterday in the Manukau, we are in possession of a few days' later news from the South. Every paper teems with denunciations of Fenianism. In every settlement of the colony meetings have been held to express sympathy with the Prince, and the unswerving loyalty of th^ colonists to the British Throne. There is no doubt that the feelings of the people have been moved to their depths, and, although we deeply regret the occasion of this display, we are very glad that, the same mail whi%,topk home an account of the existence of, Ji© Fenian .conspiracy in New Zealand, should also hay« conveyed these unmistakable proofs

of the heartfelt loyalty which -animates the great majority of the colonists. The persons who were arrested by the Government on the charge of riot at Hokitika have been committed, and will probably be brought to Wellington for trial. Fenian disturbances occurred at Addisons Flat on the 2nd instant, bat nothing further of the kind had happened up to the 6th instant, and there is every reason to hope that the commitment of the persons above mentioned will have the effeot of overawing the Fenian sympathisers on the.^est Ooast. ,

We learn that despatches have been sent up from the new Governor to King Tawhiao, [but what their purport was we hare not yet learned, and it is poslible they may never reach their destination. We know, however, that Tawhiao has received a copy of our paper in which wat, in Maori, hit Excellency's reply to the address read by Paul, and also the petition of the people of Poverty Bay. The Whanganui papers contain reports of the farther evidenoe taken before the Pokaikai Commission, which has now adjourned till a few days before the meeting of Parliament. We shall five an 1 abstract of the depositions in to-morrow's paper. To-day, being Easter Monday, there will be no business transacted at the banks. . By the outter ' Margaret ' we have advices from Opotiki up to Tuesday last Nothing of importance has taken place in the district since the attack -by the Hsnhans on the friendly native settlement at Ohiwa.^ About eighty of the constabulary are still stationed in a redoubt at Whakatane. It will be seen by reference to advertisement elsewhere that the committee of ladies connected with the Destitute and Lying-in Hospital, reeentty established in this city, purpose holding a bazaar in aid of the Institute to-morrow (Tuesday), at the Volunteer drill building. Princes-street. It will be under the patronage of his Exoellenqy Sir George and Lady Bowen, and his Honor the Superintendent and Mrs. Williamson. The committee have received numerous contributions of fancy and useful articles, and have been most assidious in their efforts to render the bazaar as successful and profitable as. possible. It is needless to observe that the object for which the bazaar will be held is one eminently deserving of the practical sympathy and support of the people of Auckland, and we trust it will be largely patronised. The charge for admission is merely nominal. The band of the 18th Royal Irish will perform choice selections of music. We have muoh pleasure in reminding our reader l that the grand vocal and instrumental concert announced by Misa Shanaghan will take place this evening, at the Catholic Institute, Wellingtonstreet. The programme is of a varied and attractive ohaiaoter, containing a judicious seleotion of the ohoioest vocal and instrumental pieces. This talented young lady, who is deservedly a favourite with the Auckland public, has been most diligent in her attention and active in her exertions to render the entertainment, in a musical point of view, a complete success. Those who are to take part in the performance are possessed of more than arerage musical ability, while the attendance of the fine band of the 18th Royal Irish, under the conduct of Bandmaster Quinn, cannot fail to be an additional attraction to the lovers of good instrumental music. We have frequently bad oocasion to mention the valuable services >\ hioh Miss Sbanaghan has rendered at musical entertainments on bebalf of charitable and religious objeots ; and, apart from the merit which the forthcoming oonoert will undoubtedly possess, we trust her friends will muster in large numbers this evening to gire her a "bumper" house. The oonoert will commence at 8 o'clock. We are informed that the crushing of 451b. of ■tone from the Albaraia Claim yielded 51£0z., and not 4l£oz. as stated in yesterday's paper. The Riverhead races are to take place to-day, commencing at 12. The-following events are on the card :— Riverhead Stakes : One-mile heats ; value. £10; entrance fee, £1; three horses to start, or no race. Maori Race : 1 wice round the course, for horses the property of bonft fide Maori ' owners ; value, £4. with a fee of 10a. entrance added ; to be ridden by Maoris ; catch, weights ; , five horses to start, or no race. Hurdle Race-: Over three flights of hurdles, 3ft. 6in.; twice round the course ; value, £6; entrance fee, 10s.; three horses to start, or no .Race. Pony Race : For horses. 14 hands and under, once round the course ; value, £6 ; entrance fee, 10«. ; three to start, or no race. Hack Race : Value, £2, with entrance fee added ; entrance fee, ss. The ' Gemini' will leave for Riverhead .at nine o'olock this morning. At the Police Court, on Saturday, - Goldsmith^. Dawkins, Bathurst, Brown, and Crane, the men in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery from the house of Mr. Stevenson, were placed at the bar. The articles stolen are enumerated in the information, and are of the aggregate value of between £50 and £60. Prisoners were remanded till Wednesday. Ws believe that the exaot amount of gold taken out of a ton of stone from ths Manukau Claim was 3240 Z. lOdwt. Any information respecting the whereabouts of Mrs. Emmott, who resided for some months with Mr. Philp, Onehunga, as servant, and whose husband, it is believed, has recently come up to Auckland from the West Coast, will be thankfully received by Mr. King, Relieving Officer, Government - Buildings, Princes-street. They have left two young children unprovided for. We have been requested to remind holders of auctioneers' licenses (town and country) that all such licenses will expire on Tuesday, 14th instant. The anniversary services of the Wellesley-sfcraet Sunday-school were preached yesterday by the Rev. P. H. Comford. After each service a liberal collection was made in aid of the school funds. A tea-meeting will be held in the school-room to* morrow (Tuesday) evening. On Satnrday afternoon an inquest was held by T. M. Philson, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of a man, named Samuel Galbraith, who died suddenly at the lodging-house of Mr. G. Taylor, Albertstreet. The evidence corroborated the material facts we published on Saturday. The jury returned a verdict in accordance, with the medical testimony given. A master mason's certificate was found among his effects, signed Samuel Gilbraitb, issued from a lodge in Scotland, in 1858. It was stated that he belonged to Dundee. He was a seaman, but had been at the Thames diggings for three or four months. A private of the 18th ; Regiment Jiamed James Ryan has been taken into custody ;7or stealing a pocketbonk ci>ntaininglBs. from John Love, in the Wynyard Hotel,, between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday evening. William Bradley, a seaman of the ship 'Maori,' was given in custody yesterday by the master of that Teasel for disobeying orders, and being absent without leave. The members of No. 6 Company, A.R.V., are convened to meet to-morrow morning, at 11 o'clock, at the butts, for t«nget practice. The best shot will have the honour of wearing the cross-rifles for the current year. An indignation meeting, in reference to the recent attempted assassination of the D»ke of Edinburgh, took place at Kelson on the 30th ultimo. A young man named Waiter Green was apprehended yesterday on the charge of wilfully breaking fourpanes of glass in the new Supreme Coort-honne. About three years ago, Green attempted to shoot himself in a dining-room in Shortland-street, and was confined for some time in the Provincial Hospital.^ He says that he could not- help breaking the windows. ------- -- H.M.,,«.i.. * Falcon,* w}th a company, of,the 18th Royal "Irish, destined' fdr Hokitika,' arrived here yesterday evening,' ironic Auckland.' ) Matters wearing a peaceable aspect on the West Coast at present, the Government very wisely bad the men conveyed fin jhqre, and they now-opcupy ,qnar{;ers4tt, Wellington Barracks.— Evening Post, April 6". - The first number of the Thames Advertiser, and Miners' jyeiM^was/ Usued atShortland Town,,Qn Saturday. Owing t|>the arrival of the, Southern and Australian njails wphaVe not space .to notice its contentsuntil our next issue. ' J The Cremorpe Gtrdens.will.be opened $Q-day and to-morrow, when the usual outdoor sports and dancing in tbejnonstoi; .pavilion, will .take place. A full, band will be in attendance. Under the beading, " Wellington, v. Auckland," the Wellington Independent says;— " The Auckland papers appear to pat themselves pn.tjbe.back and to deolare thati notwithstanding all depression', trade in "the North is better tfian in Wellington, and that work of all kinds is turned out quicker and in better at yle^here than here. The last northern 'shave' : s, that his Excellency the. Governor was detained

one day became repairs to the s.s 'Wellington' could- not be completed within the oontraot time by tradesmen in this oity. We know, as a matter of fact, that Sir George Bowen, hoping to obtain fuller and authenticated particular* of the attempted assassination of the Date of Edinburgh, put off his departure for Auckland twenty-four hours, and are, therefore, ready to allow our Auckland oontemporarits to hold any erroneous belief they choose. But when theyfstate as facts circumstances which. exist only in their fertile imaginations, with the object of depreciating Wellington, and extolling their own oity, we put in a quiet, but not the less stedfast, demurrer. In spite of the statements to the contrary of the Southern Cross, Wellington tradesmen perform the work entrusted to them in a satisfactory manner, and our business men need not go out of the place to have all they require supplied with rapidity, eoonomy, and skill." It is quite possible that all the requirements of business men may be supplied with too great faoility. We do nut say this is the case I in Wellington. Bishop Selwyn, at the annual meeting of the Manchester Auxiliary of the Society for the Propagati6n of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, referring to the discouragements of missionaries in the Southern hemisphere, remarked: — "He had spoken of the seeming failure of the work in New Zealand. He had to tell them plainly one of its causes. The people of the New Zealand race stood out for many years agaiust the temptations to intoxication. In the statistical statemeut published in the town of Wellington many years after the settlement was formed, after describing a number of convictions for various offences,including the offence of drunkenness, there was a footnote added, to the effect that intoxication was almost unknown among the natire people. He could not say it was so now. But if the native peopl* of .New Zealand had given away to the sin of intoxication, from whom would God require an account of their sin? It was not a sin of native growth ; it was imported, an exotic sio. They stood against it for a time, but as their faith failed they gave way to the temptations forced upon them by their English brethren. They had heard it said (and they were fearful words) that it was the law of nature that the coloured races should melt away before the advance of civilisation. He would tell them where that law was registered, and who were its agents. It was. registered in hell, and its agents were those whom Satan made twofold more the children of hell than himself. He from the bottom of his heart urged them to do all they could to discountenance the Use of spirituous liquor*." The first committal under the Treason Felony Act lately passed by the N.S. W. Parliament took, place atGoulburn, N.3.W., on the 24th ultimo, when a man named Bartholomew Twomey was sent fortiial. The following was the evidence given :—"Seniorsergeant Fenton deposed : I arrested prisoner this morning on a chargo of having, on the 23rd instant-, used language disrespectful to her Most Gracious Majesty, by saying 'it served the Prince right, he had no business in this country.' In reply, k priioner said, ' Where ? who heard me V I said at Mr. Topham's. — George Topham, publican, Goulburn, deposed : I saw the prisoner last night at my house with a lame man. The man b fore the Court (James Freeuey) is the man,, I heard them talking about the Prince. I understood them to mean the Duke of Edinburgh. Freeney said it was a pity to shoot him. Prisoner said it served him right, or words to that effect, hehad no business in the country. Prisoner had been in my house about two hours. He came about 9 o'clock. Prisoner had been drinking, but was not drunk! Freeney was more drunk thau prisoner. They had only one glass of rum each at my house, with which [ served them, but Freeney had a bottle from which both drank. I heard no other conversation about the Prince. JNo one else was present. — James Freeney deposed : I sawthe prisoner last night I was drinking with him somewhere. I believe I said it was a pity the Prince was shot. I believe the prisoner said it served him right. I had been drinking, and am in the habit of doing so, and was dealt with here yesterday and to-day. We were speaking of the Duke of Edinburgh. I suppose it was he. Some nonsense passed. 1 did not say it served him right. — Prisoner, who, said nothing, was committed to take his trial at the next circuit court. Bui allowed— prisoner in £150, and two sureties in £75 each."