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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 127, 3 June 1867, Page 2

A letter has beeu received from Captain Bensou by the Ruahiue, stating tliat it is not unlikely that iv the course of five or six months, complete telegraphic lines will have been established between New York and Panama, bringing New Zealaud within about 28 days of England, as a contract has been recently arranged for a caWe between JNew York and Havana!', to be completed in June, and with the intention, it is sated, of continuing it to the Isthmus. It is needless to point to the immense imprrtance which this undertaking must prove to these colonies generally. It seems that Major-General Chute has just beeu made a X.C.8., and is therefore now Sir Trevor Chute ; Deputy-Com-missary General Strickland being at the same time made a C.B. The troops in Australia are ultimately to be under the command of Sir Trevor, who will shortly start for Victoria, but while on his journey he will visit Sydney and Brisbane for the purpose of inspecting the troops there. The Home News, with reference to the movements of the Royal Family, states that the charming and amiable Priucess of Wales has been a sufferer from illness of a most painful character. Her confinement passed off well, although she was afflicted with severe rheumatism, but this has unfortunately settled in her knee, and the pain has been, excruciating. One day, it is certain, Ler medical attendants feared that their patient would sink under exhaustion, but the Princess rallied, and when the last mail left, it was affirmed that there was no cause for apprehension, though the process of cure may be tedious, and it is stated that it is by no means improbable that permaneat lameness may result. Everyone must lament so sad a fortune for one who is so young, who has commenced life so huppily,and who enjoys life with all the spirit of happy youth. Her Majesty has visited the Priucess, but i it is stated that the Queen's affectionate j nature was so much excited by the sufferings of her daughter-in-law, as to agitate both herself and the patient more ! than was well for either. The national sympa-lry with her Royal Highness is very deep at home, and will, we are sure, be no less genuine in these colonies. The division on the adoption of the Committee's report, on the Wellington Slip Contract, resulted on Thursday morning | iv favor of the Government — Mr. Pharazyu's motion for ratifying the contract, in opposition to the recommendation of the Committee having been lost by 11 to 14. The report of the Select Committee on Messrs. Kennard's petition is published in the Wellington papers, and is wholly against the attitude assumed by the contractors, recommending that the matter be left in the hands of the Superintendent and Executive. The Lyttelton Times is authorised to state that the farming interest of Canterbury will be but lightly affected by the failure of Messrs. J. T. Peacock and Co., as the total amount of bills under acceptance by them for graiu does not exceed • £506 os. | The Otago Daily Tirres states that an] attempt has been made by Superintendent! Maciudrew to compromise existiug differ-i euces with the General Government : — • " The Superintendent telegraphed to the! Governor, and offered the fairest and easi-j est compromise — oue in fact that met' !- exactly all that the complainers have since) asked for. He said : "Le*. there be noj delegation until the Assembly meets.! There are no practical difficulties in the! way of continuing as we have continued \ since niy election. The gold-fields can be administered as usual j only, instead of

" \■ ■ ' • I. . "' ""- L giving into the Lauds of a number of unfitted persons irresponsible power, let the Provincial Government continue, as ft has since Mr. Dick's retirement, to overlook and supervise. Let, iv short, the power remain iv the G-overnor in Council, buc tlie fid ministration of the gold-fields continue as at present until the Assembly meets." It is stated that the telegram iv as not replied to. The salaries of the Otago Government ofh\ ers were discussed in the Provincial Council on the 20th ult., when £1000 was proposed ior the Supeinteudeut, but au amendment making it £1200 was carried. The Dunstan Times says that the inconvenience arising from the closing of the Government Offices in Otago by the Provincial Government is daily becoming more and more serious, and instances cases iv the local Extended Jurisdiction Court, in which, through the non-pro-duction of documents locked up in the Court-house at Alexandra, numerous witnesses were put to the trouble and expense of attending the Court for no purpose, the. plaintiffs having to submit to a nonsuit. The hot springs on i lie beach at Waiwera — a district lying about 28 miles north of Auckland, midway between the Wade and Mahurangi — are noticed by the Neto Zealand Herald as possessing a most extraordinary curative power in cases of rheumatism. Some ten years ago, au invalid came from Sydney purposely to take the benefit of bathing in these springs. At the [ time of his arrival his left arm was as useless as though paralysed, but after using the bath for about leu weeks, a cure was effected. Later still, a notable instance of the effect of the springs on rheumatism is the case of Mrs. Holmes of the North Shore, who suffered so severely from that disease that she had been for some time completely crippled. A visit to the Waiwera hot springs has completely cured her. The military staff iv Australia, consisting of a brigadier-general, and aide-de-camp, and a brigade-major, has been abolished, and for the present there will not be any staff officer in the Australian Colonies, At the end of the present year 1 , perhaps by September next, MajorGeneral Chute will rt-move his staff to Melbourne, and New Zealand will then cease to be a command — occupied only by the 2-1 8 th Regiment, or, if the measures proposed to be brought forward at the next General Assembly are cariied out, by perhaps no troops at all. The left wing of the 50th Regiment, now at New Plymouth, will, in the course of the present month, be brought to Auckland, they being now under orders to proceed to Australia as soon as possible. The2-18th Regiment is concentrated at Wanganui. A long debate took place in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, on the 9th ultimo, upon the following resolution :— "That, in the opinion of the House, the agreement entered into by the delegates at the Postal Conference in not saitisfactory, nor calculated to advance the interests of this colony." The speeches were generally condemnatory of the Panama line, which, however, is supported by the present Ministry, who delend the arrangement relative to the Pauama and other mail routes, entered into by the delegates at the Conference. The debate was adjourned until the 14th ultimo, when the above motion was negatived by a majority of 40 to 29. Mr. M'Culloch's Ministry had announced their intention to treat fhe motion as a "no confidence" question, and to resign if it were carried. Accouuts from Glasgow announces the failure of Messrs. Weir Brothers and Co., au old and respectable firm in the wine and spiiit trade, with liabilities amounting to £100.. 0)0. A feature of the French. Exhibition is to be a Japanese coffee-bouse, with eight genuine Japanese girls, already on their way to Paris, as waiters. , It is a great mistake in female education to keep a young lady's time and attention devoted to the fashionable literature of the day. If you would qualify her for conversation, you must give her something to talk about — give her education with this actual world and its transpiring eveuts. Urge her to read the newspapers . ami become familiar with the' preseut character and improvements of our race. History is of some importance ; but the past world is dead, and we have nothing to do with it. Our thoughts and our concerns should be for the present world, to know what it is, aud improve the condition of it. Let herhavo an intelligent opiniou aud be able to sustain a conversation concerning the mental, moral and reMigious improvements of our times.