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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 186, 10 August 1867, Page 3

The Evening Post says: —From despatches forwarded from Downing-street to his Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, and laid on the table of the House, we gather that the last regiment of Imperial troops at present remaining in the colony will be allowed to continue its stay in New Zealand until its ultimate destina. tiou be decided upon by her Majesty's Government. The Wanganui Times is informed by a gentleman who has ridden overland from Patea, that Lieut-Colonel M'Dounell has purchased 600 acres of laud, somewhere between the Waitotara river and Whenuakura, which is within four or five miles from the Patea river. This purchase on the part of M'Donnell, on this side of the Patea, has already restored confidence, and settlement will proceed in that direction. The whole country from Wanganui to Patea, on the Waingongora, and indeed through New Plymouth, is said to be as safe to travel as any part of the colony. If occasional outbreaks are instantly met, and sharply put down whilst settlement is going forward, in a few years the settlers and natives will work harmoniously together. The Marlborough Press says that whooping cough is very prevalent in Blenheim and neighborhood, where there is scarcely a family some of whose members are not affected by the malady. The overdrawn account at the Bank of New Zealand, on behalf of the Canterbury Province, was stated the other evening in the Council, by the Piovincial Secretary, to be £92,430 ou the 30th June last. Major-General Sir Trevor Chute, k.c.b., ; embarked for the Australian station on the 2nd. instant in the s.s. ' Auckland,' after 1 terminating his arduous mission as com- | roander of the forces in this colony. The | General was accompanied by his aide-de-I camp Lieutenant Richardson, Major Baker (Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General),and |Dr Gibb (Principal Medical Officer and I Deputy-Inspector-General on the station).

It is estimated that the cost while in Session of the House of Representatives, is one hundred pounds a day, and that each member attending, costs the conntry one hundred and fifty pounds per annum. The kerosine mineral called dysodile, says the Australasian, long known to exist in considerable quantities ia Tasmania, is, it appears, at last to be utilised. Colonel Chesney has for several months been experimenting on the best modes of extracting both illuminating and lubricating oils, and, it is stated, has been very successful in organising a process for attaining the desiderated eud in a mode sufficiently economical to justify the immediate commencement of operations. Commenting ou Colonel Chesney 's experiments, a Hobart Town contemporary gives information about bituminous deposits in South Australia that we never remember seeiug before : — In the south-eastern portions of South Australia large tracts of country have been found covered with a coating resembling indiarubber, of about an inch thick, and this is supposed to be the exudation of an oily substance from below the surface, where they are now digging in expectation of procuring kerosine oil, but with whafc success we have not heard. Holloway's Pills. — Joy for Invalids. — The greatest and best chemical combination of the very finest b»lsains dwells in this excellent medicine, which to be praised needs only a single trial. The purifying power of these excellent Pills strongly recommends them to the use of families in which any constitutional weakness or deleterious taint exists. Holloway's medicine has the most renovating efiect when the system has become debilitated by dissipation, over-indulgence, or long-continued illness. The Pills, acting gently as alteratives, aperients, and tonics, impart strength and energy to the whole body. No mischief can possibly result from the u*e of this world-esteemed remedy: innocent in nature and harmless in action, it is admirably adapted for every delicate constitution. 2934