THE SOUTH.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3732, 5 July 1869, Page 5

THE SOUTH.

We compile the following from papers reoeired per g.s. ' Wellington' : — Sir David Monro has returned to Nelson for a short time, in consequence of sickness in his family. Mr. Henry Howorfch has been elected for the representation of the Taieri in the General Assembly, and already taken his peat. Mr. Cracroft Wilson's " Grhoorka"resolutions were temporarily shelved during the debate on Mr. Fox's motion, but are down on the orderpaper for Wednesday, July 7. Seventeen new J'P.s have been created by Mr. Stafford, principally gentlemen residing in the Auckland province, and on the East Coast. The Katoki'a Bay Times says, " As some anxiety may exist through the telegraphic gfcafcement that Mr. Fox said alarming telegrams received on Sunday had rendered immediate attention neoeisary, and as no such telegrams were known of in Napier, we have authority to nay that Mr. Fox has since recalled his expression — no telegrams of an alarming nature having been received." Mr, Tetley, of Kekarangua, Canterbury, whose abrupt departure from the colony some time ago was the subject of poignant regret to his creditors, and whose whereabouts has since remained unknown, has contrived, from his abiding place, io forward his resignation of his seat in the Legislative Council, which was at once accepted. In the House of Sepresentatives, on June 25, Mr. Craoroft Wilgon brought up the report of the Public Petitions Committee on the petition of Mr. Smythie*, to be exempted from the penalties of the Law Practitioners Act, and to b# refunded the turn of £500 which he had been fined, the petitions, from Auckland and Otago in hit favour, a»d those againat him from members of the bar in Otago and Southland. The committee did not recommend the House to take any action in the matter. The proposed conference between representative! of the Governments of the various Aus» tralUn coloniei baa been postponed to October, in consequence of the. representatives of New Zealand being unable to &tten4 on. the date;

' originally fixed, owing to their attendance being required in the Assembly. The oonferenoe will be held in Sydney. The decision of the umpire, Mr. Fitzherbert, on the apportionment of the debt between Canterbury and Westland, has been made publio, and Westland has been adjudged to pay the sum of £207,000 as her share of the Canterbury debt. This is in the proportion of four to nine. The petition for separation from Canterbury which has been circulating in the Timaru and neighbouring districts has been forwarded to the General Assembly. Nearly 1,000 signatures were obtained, and it is stated that this number would have been considerably increased had time allowed of the petition being sent round the outlying districts. The total amount raised at Timaru for the family of Duncan Cameron, who was drowned on the occasion of the late wrecks at that place, is stated to be slightly more than £300. The petition from settlers in the Waitotara district who have sustained losses by the war, and which was recently presented to the House of Representatives, has been reported on by the Public Petitions Committee, to the effect that the committee cannot recommend the House to take any action in the matter: — Independent, Juno 24. The report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the case of the convict Tricker has been laid ou the table of the House for some days, and has, on the motion of Mr. Fox, been ordered to be printed. The report is understood to be unfavourable to the asiumption of Tricker's innocence of the alleged crime for which he is now undergoing penal servitude.— Ibid., June 26. Mr. Edwin William Tennant, of Christchurch, has patented a new machine for flax. " A gentleman in Christchurch has," says the Lyttelion Times, " submitted for our inspection a really fine sample of fibre from the ordinary tussock grass. The sample was soft, silky, and free from vegetable matter. It wiH be sent to England for inspection in the proper quarter, and we may probably learn in due course that the tussock grass of New Zealand is as valuable as the esparto grass of Spain, or more so." The total quantity of flax exported from the colony during the quarter ending on the 31st March last was 380|tons, representing a money value of £7,614. Of this amount Auckland contributed £5,480, Lyttelton £1,640, Dunedin £444, and Wellington £50. The value per ton was thus about £20 0s. 7d. A specimen of wool shorn from some purebred Xeicesters on Mr, Stokes's station in Hawke's Bay* displays a fibre 14in. in length, and a fleece weighing 101b. loz., after skirting and washing by the hot-water process. The Dunstan squatters are about to ereet a boiling-down establishment in their neighbourhood. The undertaking will be started by a joint stock company. The apparatus belonging to the Boiling-down Company lately set ©n foot at Wairarapa has arrived at the site of the proposed establishment.

We are compelled to hold over our report of Mr. Ellis'a speech at the public meeting held at Graham's Town on Saturday afternoon. A correspondent writing on the subject says : — "The affair was a very great success. Mr. Ellis received an enthusiastic re* eeptioD. He had the people entirely with him, and received.'quite an ovation at the close." 'I he latest account! as to Te Kooti's whereabouts represent tfaat he has jgone round to the weit side of Lake Taupo. It will be seen by the telegrams published in another column that the native report as to the capture of Te Heuheu by Te Kooli, which we published in our issue of Friday last, is confirmed. By the barque 'B«1Ia Mary,' which arrived fro*i EfobaitTonn yesterday evening, Mr. Cbadwick hat received a number of fine Dorking fowls imported from England, and Mr. J. Copland a Tasmanian tiger. Some fancy pigeons were ateo brought by Captain Copping for private sale. We regret to learn that Mr. Beekham, R.M., is suffering from the effects of a very severe cold, and that, although he attended »t the Police Court on Saturday in the discharge of his magisterial duties, he was suffering bo severely from pains throughout his body that he was unable to take his seat upon the beech without assistance. We tru»t that Mr. Beckham's indisposition will be of brief duration. We observe that the City Board have commenced the construction of a footpath in front of the Customhouse, Fort-street, and certainly not before it w«b wanted ; but we fail to perceive why the curb-stone which they have newly put do^n is raised fully four mohes above the adjoining curb stone which runs from thence to the corner of Queen and Fort-street. A dividend of 58. per «hare is cow due to tfco shareholders of Dixon's No. 1 Gold-mining Company, and payable at the offioe of the Company, Graham's Town. Last evening nearly a couple of hundred people were assembled in Victoria-street, the occasion being the apprehension of a man named Robert Rose who was in the grasp of Constable Gamble for drunkenness, The prisoner, although much the worse for liquor, struggled desperately in the handu of his captor, whom he kicked most viciously several times. Even when Sergeant Eve.s came to the constable's assistance it was more than the two men could do to convey the prisoner to the otation, so violent was his behaviour ; and we are sorry to say that Amongst tho largo crowd a»sembled were a good many people who hustled the officers in the execution of their duty, instead of rendeilng them assistance. In fact-, we have seldom seen a worse specimen of a street naob collected together. Additional police aisi&tance fortunately came to Evers and Salable, when the refractory drunkard was conveyed to the station. We hav« been requested to give insertion to the following: — "Sir, — I have a private letter from Wellington, which says that Mr. Fox is still ultraprovincial, and bis Ministry is determined to resist any organic changes. One leading politician says; — ' £ expect a dissolution ; the ouly thing to look to now is the electoral roll. * * * * Candidates should be forced to declare themselves on the hustings.' " On Saturday afternoon a geaman belonging to the birque 'Novelty' was given into the custody of I oonsfcablflCarriganfor riotous and disorderly conduct on board that vessel. A man named James Williams was given into custody on Saturday evening for wilfully breaking a pane of glass, value 2s. 6d., in the house of one John Kemp, of Chancery-lane. By tho A rgua of the 19th June we observe that the waighta for the Melbourne Cup had been declared, and that Manukxu, Mr. Redwood's colt, was [to carry 9dt. 41b,, and was » hot favourite at 100 to 4L In the House of Representatives, on June 23, Mr. Carleton moved, "That all papers concerning the case of David David es, and in particular bis memorial praying that his claims for land and compensation at Opotiki might be heard in Auckland, be laid on the table.'' — Agreed to. It ia announced that the quarterly term of the Auckland Grammar School is to commence on Tuesday next, and that the pieliminary examination of candidates for admission is to be held on Tuesday, at 12 o'olook. A meeting of the Royal Exchange, Naval Volunteers, and All Eight claims, X«raka Creek, will be held at the office of Mr. N. W, Maasey on Wednesday next. A gentleman, who returned from Ngaruawahia yesterday, reports that the natives in the Waikato are engaged in gum-digging near that pUce, aud are apparently in every way peaceably disposed. We observe the arrival of Miss Folly Leake and Mi". ft. Roberts, passecgers by the s.s. * Welling, ton.' They have lately played successfully at the Prineeas Theatre, Dunedin. Tho Otogo Daily Times of June 25 contains the following :— " Mr. R. Roberts, the well-known comedian aud impersonator of Irish parts, leaves to-day for Auoklnnd, en route for the Australian colonies, Mr. Roberts has ! established himself as a great favourite with the theatre-going publio of Dunedin, and we hope, and have little doubt, that he will be equally successful in the * fresh fields and pastures new* he i« about to try." We are gl»d to learn from several correspondents that hii Honor the Deputy Superintendent has exhibited great interest in aiding the country flefctler* i in forming or repairing roads and bridges and subsidising ferriei, so far a» the funds placed; at tha I disposal of the Government by 1 the Council will

The monthly meeting of the New Zealand Agricultural Society will ba held at the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu, on Tuesday next, at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. Business : To receive a copy of the report of th« Inspector of Cattle for the quarter ending 31st March. A paper will also be read by Mr, I, W, Hnrrop. An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders In the United Service Gold-mining Company will be held at Messrs. S, Coehrane and Son's mart, on Saturday, the 24th instant, at 4 o'clook, The only busineis transacted at the Police Court yeiterday, was the punislment of throe drunkard* mulcted in the usual penalties. Private information has been received at Adelaide by the mail, that both the Anglo- Australian telegraph companies formed in England propose taking the cable to the west const of Australia. — Post, June 26. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned at , Melbourne against Hugo Levioger, charged with the murder of three Polynesian uatives at the Island of Paamtna, in October last. His Honor stated that he would not pronounce sentence until the full Court had decided if the jury could give a verdict of manslaughter on the evidence. He would grant bail in two sureties of £1,000 each, and the prisoner himself in £2,000. An inquest wa» held at Clyde Hotel, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, on the 25th June, to inquire into the circumstances attending deaths of Andrew Schon and GtaatRvus Reiohardt. The jury being sworn in, evidence was token. The verdict of the jury was "That the two men, Andrew Sohon and Gustavus Reichardt, were accidentally drowned at sea, at or near Wairon, on or about the 25th day of June, 1869." It is notified in the New Zealand Gazette published on June 26 that the colonial decorative distinction has been awarded to Sergeant George Hiil, of No. 1 division of the Armed Constabulary. The service for which the honour has been beatowed was performed on the 10th April la«t, at the assault of Jerusalem Pa, when a _p_arty volunteered for the assault and their success waVdue lira great measure to the ex« ample of Constable Hill, who led them. He also animated the defenders of the pa, vrhioh was very hard-pressed, and assisted greatly in the repulse of Te Kooti. A number of specimen! from the Pride of Karaka Claim, weighing in all 422 ounces, and estimated by Mr. Muir, of the Union Bank assay office, to contain 42 ounces of gold, were purchased by Mr, D. J. O'Keeffe, for £110, who intends to send them over to Melbourne and Ballarat. The stone was taken from a leader two feet thick which is exptcted to yield a good return.