SOUTHERN PROVINCES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4002, 20 June 1870, Page 3

SOUTHERN PROVINCES.

By the s.s. 'Phoebe,' which arrived in the Manukau on Saturday, we have later papers from Otago, Wellington, Picton, Nelson, and Taranaki. They contain little "news. Commercial and shipping extracts will be found in their proper places.

WELLINGTON. 1 We have evening papera-sio the loth.—' At a meeting of the Diocesan Synod held at Wellington the address to Bishop Abrahams was adopted. After expressing regret at the loss sustained by the diocese by the resignation of Bishop Abrahams, the address proceeds to say :—": — " We cannot but anticipate that the presence of our late Primace and yourself in the mother country will have a most favourable influence in maintaining that bond of union and sympathy between the parent Church and her colonial offspring which it is our most earnest desire to preserve. "

TARANAKI. We have filea of the Taranaki Herald and the JSTews tothe .17th.— The Opunake Company, as a kind "of preliminary to starting work, have been feasting the natives. The weather proved unfortunately, very wet. — vlr. Commissioner Parris is at Oounake, settlingall the little difficulties between the natives 'and the flax companies, and he has been very successful ; he was to start for Oeo on the 18th. Mr. T. Kelly, M.G.A., also was to depart on the same day via Patea en route for Wellington. The Patea settlers have some representation to make to him with regard to their district. — There was a flood in the Waiaua on the 9bh, although there was little rain. It must have rained heavily on that side of the mountain, where the river takes its rise. It rolled down in a body four feet high, without any previous warning — in a few minutes it was at its full height ; but it went down in a few hours.

CANTERBURY. It is stated that Mr. Stafford will again come forward as a candidate for the representation of Tiniaru, at the approaching general election, though solicited by three other constituencies to aot as their representative.

OTAGO. We have files of the Time-;, Star, and Echo to the 11th instant. — The Bruc. Herald understands that a large extent of ground has been taken._up Lawrence and Waipori for the purpose of mining for antimony. This mineral is worth about £4ST a ton in the home market. Good coal has been discovered on the Main South fload, some eight miles south of the Mataura. The discovery was made by roadmen while engaged in digging out the foundations of a culvert. The extent of the seam is nob known.

WESTLAND. Mr. Edmund Barff, members of the County Council, has been appointed Warden's Clerk at the ICanieri, and has, consequently, to resign his seat in the General Assembly for Westland South. Messrs. Hoos, South, White, Button, and a host of others are spoken of as likely candidates. — The question of an. nexationto Nelson is being warmly ta^en up at the Grey, where the inhabitants are weary of the treatment their districb has received as portion of the County of Westland, and, if the Grey Hiver Argus may be taken as an index of popular opinion, are most desirous of placing themselves under the rule of Nelsoa. — One of Thompson's road engines, with indiarubber tires, is shortly expected to arrive in Greymouth from England, to run ( n the tramway between Greymouth and Saltwater, a distance of seven miles.