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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2023, 29 October 1869, Page 2

Telegraphic Extension. —We understand that the telegraph will be open to Wanganui in a couple of days. The Gaol.— Thomas Griffin Green, an old offender, was received into the gaol yesterday afternoon from Port Chalmers, sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, with hard labor, for vagrancy.

A Correction.— We are requested by Messrs Calcutt and Menlove to say that the cancellation of their run, mentioned by us yesterday, only extended to 450 i) acres situate on the boundary of the Switzer's goldfield, and which piece, in conjunction with 5000 acres from "Mr Swanston’s, the ad juicing run, the Government intend to throw open for sale and a commonage to the miners. We regret the error should have occurred.

Cricket. —A match between sides chosen by the secretary and treasurer of the Citizens * Cricket ' lub will take place on their ground to-morrow. Wickets pitched at 1.30. It has been arranged to play eighteen on each side so as to bring a large number of the club into the field. The following are the respective teams : —Secretary’s side: C. W. Gcddes, Wills, Swire, Whetham, F. M. Coxhoad, Dunning, Ferguson, Gardner, Josling, F. A. Coxhead, Wain, Henderson, T. S. Hardy, Marsden, Mills, Taylor, Howell, and Riddell. Treasurer’s side : Watson, Woodilk-ld, Fish, Pledger, Morrison, Peake, Ttompofn, Olarlr, Loam, Millop-, Murphy, Moore, Rossbot:om, Larking, Winter, Hogg, Elam, and Bird. —A match will also be play between an eleven of the D.O.C. and twenty-two chosen from the Press and Stage teams on the gi ound of the former —While on the subject of cricket, we would draw attention to the necessity of preventing the ground being used as a public thoroughfare by the inhabitants of Kensington, &c. Not only is great injury done to the ground in consequence but play is frequently interrupted. Persons too arc in the habit of getting too close to the players. On Wednesday last a man received a severe injury, a ball hit from the wickets striking him in the face.

The English Mails. —The following extract from a report on the Post Office department, Victoria, for 1868, will show how expeditiously the English mail is now sorted and delivered in Melbourne. With the increased accommodation provided in the new building, and the improved appliances which have been introduced, the delivery of the English mail is now far more expeditiously accomplished than at any previous time. Until a comparatively recent period the sorting and delivery in Melbourne of the letter portion of tho English mail occupied over six hours, but this is now done in two hours and a half from the arrival of the mail at the General Post-office. Two patent stamping machines have been brought into use, each capable of stamping 200 letters per minute, and, with other stampers. 1,000 letters are upon these occasions stamped per minute. With the additional officers from the several branches, the mails are sorted and got ready lor delivery at the private box and general delivery offices in a little under an hour and a-half, and by dividing the City carriers’ beats into three parts, and employing extra but thoroughly qualified men, the whole of the town corrc-pondence (say 10,0; 0 letters), is delivered in about an hour afterwards. The same report gives the receipts for 1868, as follows: —Letters. 525,556 ; packets, 26,003 ; newspapers, 1,268,643. The Shake Mania, judge from a paragraph in the Lyttelton Times the share mania has extended to Cauterbury. The latest development of it is thus referred to by our contemporary : The proceedings at the last meeting of the Moonlight Quarlz Mining Company at Greymouth, ought to open the eyes of the public. Three-fourths of the shares of this company arc now held in Christchurch, and have been purchased at rates varying from L2O to i.SO premium on shares of LlO each. Not an ounce of gold has yet been obtained from the mine, and wo venture to assort that there are not two persons in Christchurch personally acquainted with the true posit on and prospects of the mine. At a meeting recently held in Greymouth, the report of which appeared in this journal, it was resolved that the qualification for a director should be reduced to one share. As we have already stated the mine has not yet c -m----menced crushing. But it does not require much insight into its affairs to see that some of the original proprietors must have made a very line crushing out of the Christchurch public. We can only hope after this, that all tho flaming accounts occasionally appear in the local papers will turn out correct, and that the divh tends will be heavy enough to wan ant a special escort from Cieymonth on Mr FitzGerald’s celebrated plan. Sooner or later the public will doubtless learn that speculation in mining property requires rather

more care and circumspection than is usually exercised in other and mure ordinary investments.

The North. —We take the following from our files received per Claud Hamilton The Southern Crons' correspondent writes lam informed by a gentleman who returned from Ohinemuri this morning, that matters have assumed a very unfavorable turn. Some of ibe Natives have been making demonstrations of a warlike nature, —brandi filing spears and otherwise showing off in a bombastic was. The Europeans have received summary notice to quit the district, and those Maor s who have been waiting for an intervi-w with Mr M‘Lean and the Governs, have It ft Ohinemuiiin disgust, at being kept waiting so long. It is said that some of the Europeans have made up th ir minds to leave the place, while others treat the matter lightly, and have expressed their determination to remain at all risks. The sale of the cargo and coal of the s.s. Taranaki was concluded on Thursday, and realised L 1,050. It is feared that the results do not come up to the estimate given to the Wreck Discovery Company, the cargo being fmmd to ha in so much worse condition than was expected —lt will be satisfactory to many of Captain Mundle’s acquaintances here, to learn that he is succeeding in his new profession of gold miner. The Auckland Evening News of the lUh says“ A gentleman from Coromandel informs us that last week Captain Mundls, of the Mariner’s I’eef, crushed one ton of stuff, which yielded the satisfactory return of 4oz 7dwt fine gold.—The Wellington Independent of the 21st instant says “We learn that Captain Gordon, last of H.M. GGth Regiment, has just ridden through alone from Wanganui to Taranaki, stopping at Patea on the road. He slept at Native pahs, and associated freely among the Maones along the coast, whom he found uniformly kind, peaceable, and civil Ftom another source we learn that Mr Kelly, M.H. R., is at Opunaki, arranging with the Natives there for the erection of a flax mill. The introduction of industries such as Ihese will do more towards securing the permanent peace of the native country than a dozen regiments of soldiers.—The policemen of Wellington have received no pay for the last few months. Thatcher’s opening entertainment was witnessed by an overflowing house.