SOUTHERN PROVINCES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4001, 18 June 1870, Page 6

SOUTHERN PROVINCES.

By the ' Taranakf we have later papers from Southland, Otago, Canterbury, Wellington, and Hawke's Bay. Commercial, telegraphic, and shipping intelligence will be found in their respective columns.

WELLINGTON. "We Lave files of the Independent and Advertiser tj the 14th, and of the Post to the 11th. — The property of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company has been withdrawn from sale, the liquidators having received a private offer from a Wellington company, which is prepared to give the sum of £18,000 for the plant The new company proposes to raise a capital of £50,000 in 10,000 shares of ko each. It i3 also proposed to make a considerable reduction in the passenger fares, and to try the system of allowing passengers to pay only for the meals they consume on board. The new company propose to accept the old shaies at the rate of £2 10s. in the purchase of shares in the now company. A parade of the detachment of the Armed Constabulary was held at the MountCook Ban acks on Saturday, m the piesence of the Premier, with the other members of tho Cabinet, and a few private gentlemen. — Mr. Justice Ward and Mrs. Ward ai rived ou the 12th. — The Carandini-j have commenced their enteitainments. — Su David Monio missed his passage by the 'Anedale' on the 13th.— A man iu Willis street made a one-hoi &e power engine and sot i; going, but something went wrong and the affair blew up, considerably damaging the building in which it had been placed.— It a meeting of the Diocesan Synod, held on the Sth, the Ven. Archdeacon Harliield was sole nominee for the vacant Biblijpiic. The election took place on tho 10th.— Mr. Giegory, who such fame by " touching up " the Maoris at Otaki lecently, and has*since been ■l.iing ponanoe in Mr. Raa-l's flotol, for 'xactising medicine without a license, was u.i the 8th discharged from custody.

CANTERBURY. We have files of the Li/ftlctod Thncs and (Jtnterbury Presi to the 13th. — Iu con•ecmence of the now fiequent occur- . uneeof tiojils uu the aieii Plain, seveuil irmers have i evolved to abandon their hold113s. — We lear . that Mr. White's temporary ( »iidge across the ttakaia is completed and open for traffic. — \ white wood hen, wit' out .4 single coloured feather, has been caught by .1 shepherd on the Four Peaks Kan, Canteriimy. Ifed legs and bill are also of a bnghterrod than those of birds of its species geneially aie. X large s iark was caught by a parfcy of fishermen at the Heads. On being brought to town, it was at onca seemed for the Museum by Captaiu Praser, and deposited 111 one of tlie lower looms of the bnJding. — A public meeting has icquosted Mr. Fox to instruct Commissioners in England to procure information as to flax and the machinery. — A body, found on Thursday 111 the Piakaia, has been identified as that of Mr. John Webb, who together with Mr. Willi.im Willis, was supposed to have crossed the Kakaia on the 8fch of February last.

NAPIER. We have file? of the Herald and Tim<>3 to the 14th. — Colonel Whitmore has returned from Wellington.— Mr. Thomas Potter was mortally wounded l>y the accidental discharge of a gun He died in a few horn*. Mr. Sutherland, an Auckland man, has been elected schoolmaster at Meanee. — The Council has passed a lesolution recommending the members of the General Assembly for°Na pier to urge the gi anting compensation to the Mohak i settlers for their horses lost Iibg year.— Mr. H. Beukera and another Merc capsized in a bo it, but clung to it, and w ere picked up.

OTAGO. We have papers to the 8th instant.— On the 1st ot June, Mi\ Miller moved, in the Provincial i "ouucil oMhinedin, ''That the House has no confidence in the Executive as at present constituted." The only charge against the Executive appeared t / be tliat the Provincial Treasurer was obliged to refer to his clerk occasionally for information bef ci e being able to leply to questions which arose in going through tho Estimates. Leave was asked to withdraw the motion after somchttle discussion, in which the mover was very severely handled ; but i t wa3 refused, anrl on going to a division the motion waa lost by 4 to 17. Otago wants to bouw £600,000 to expend as follows :— Southern Trunk Railway £400,000} Water Supply on Goldfielda! £100,000; Immigration, £50,000: Embankment of Rivers, £50,000 ; Oamaru Dock, £20,000 ; Waitaki Bridge, * 10, 000 ; Kakanui Harbour, £6,000; Waikouaiti Wharf, £8,0J0Shag Kiver Budge, £1,000 ; Lower Mataura Bridge, £2,000 ; total, i 650, 000. —The correspondent of tho Oannru Times stales thai Otago squatters seem to be adopts in tl o u«e of horsewhips,- an encounter having lately taken place in Princes-street between Mr. McKenzie, lafco mm \j. . far \I> Dillon Jiell and Mr. L w, of the firm of Campbell a>id J-kjw, m the w!i lf ,« oi wluuit the latter gentleman received a severe eastigation at t'.« ], nfV ls of tho former, S lch ° aUS6d no sm aU excitement.lne £Oo'J.OJ>) Joan scheme ot the PiovinculGovernmjnt is denounced by tho Bruc Herald as a cunningly devised plan to lock up three mtlltons .i acres in the hands of thosquattora. Messi s. Jleid andGillies are accusedof treachery to their supporters throurfi0«t the country for sanctioning the proposal. —Mr. Kirkwoxland his assistant weie semerely injured by the accidental explosion of a blast.— A senous accident happened to a lad named William Jamieson, in the employ wi^i V- harl ° 3 Samson . Green Island While leading t«o horses. to the water, one ot them kicked him on the forehead, inflicting a tnghtful gash. -The body of JameMcBlwame, a packer, has been fonnd in thf f 110 ,^^ 1 " A c ' Campbell, of Tuapeka Flat, lost £3o by a fit e. The Chinese at Canlrona are working the oJ.l ground over oeain are netting from 61. to 10J. per man for the Week's work.

MARLBOKOUGH. The proprietors of flaxmills in Maryborough have formed tueuiselves into an association for " obtaining tlie knowledge (by discussion •jr otherwise) of this best mode of dressing .w& preparing flax for the market ; also, the beat mode of shipping the same; and for the protection of tbe genet*! interests of the"