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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 215, 10 September 1868, Page 2

The general tenor of our advices from Wellington by the Phoebe, which has just arrived, point to the probability that the financial proposals of the Government will be carried, and that Mr Fox's four resolutions will be negatived. The glaring injustice contemplated towards this province has, however, been recognised, and though not altogether removed, is proposed to be mitigated by increasing the payment to Nelson from £90,000 to £150,000. We hope to be able to place further details before our readers in our next issue. As we stated in our issue of Tuesday last, the annual sitting of the Anglican Diocesan Synod of the provinces of Nelson and Marlbrough was commenced with a service at Christchurch on the morning of that day. At 3 o'clock the Synod was opened at the Provincial Hall, with an address by the Right Rev. Bishop Suter, of very considerable length, during which his lordship reviewed the present state and prospects of his diocese, referring to the Lambeth Conference with but partial satisfaction, and advocating the recognition by the General Synod of Bishop Jenner's appointment to the see of Dunedin conditionally. The latter portion of the address was occupied by a reference to the completion of the Bishop's residence at Bishopdale, and to the wants of the diocese. The election of lay members and other business was then proceeded with, and the Synod adjourned until the following day, (yesterday) when a resolution, by the Rev. W. Lewis, to the effect that the Bishop be requested to sanction the use of a burial ground at St. Alban's, Appleby, for members of the Anglican Church, and also another by the Rev. C, H. J. Halcombe, expressing a hope that morning and evening service should be celebrated at Christchurch, during the sitting of the Synod, were, after some discussion, carried. The Synod resumed its sitting to-day.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday the following civil cases were heard : — J. Allen v. E. Barker. Action to recover £3 17s 6d., amount of credit given to the defendant during the passage of the Ballarat from London to Nelson, for ale, spirits, &c. supplied. Judgment was given for the amount claimed, with £l 12s. costs. Mr Kingdon appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Pitt for the defendant. J. Tingle v. T. Hodgson. — Action to recover £3 125., amount for drawing materials supplied to the defendant. Judgment for amount claimed, with 11s. costs. W. Hale v Franklyn and Hurst. — Action to recover £8 9s. 6d., amount of account rendered, with cost of summons withdrawn at the request of the defendants, who live at Turakina, near Wanganui. Judgment for the amount claimed, with £1 7s. costs, T. H. Foy v. J. Cordial. — Action to recover £3 16s. 10d. for butcher's meat supplied to the defendant, who did not appear. Judgment for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, with £2 2s. costs. The farewell banquet to Sir George Grey took place at Wellington at 1 o'clock on Tuesday, at the Oddfellows* Hall, about 230 persons being present, including all the most distinguished public men of the day, whether moving in social or political circles. The chair was taken by Sir D. Monro (Dr . Featherston being unable to attend through illness), the vicechairman being Mr Justice Johnston. After the various loyal and local toasts had beeu giveu, including that of the Governor, the band playing ' The King of the Cannibal Islands,' a farewell address was presented to Sir George Grey, who shortly afterwards embarked. The papers laid on the table of the House of Representatives relative to the escape of the Chathams, contains some curious facts. The plans were laid with such skill that Captain Thomas, according to the report, could hardly have offered anything like effectual resistance. Instead of 31 stand of arms, there were 49 stands of arms taken away, and £500 in cash, and as much flour, sugar and tobacco, as they choose to remove from the Riflemau. Besides these we learn that they robbed all the houses on the beach with the exception of one lady who hid a bag of sovereigns £300 in a teakettle, while boiling over the fire. The number of prisoners escaped were 163 men, 64 women, and 71 children, being 398 souls. The quantity of ammunition taken was 4684 rounds. Three pounds of powder was taken from private stores. The Marlborough News of the sth inst., says that the road to Nelson, between Havelock and Wilson's, is impassable, owing to the trees which have fallen, across it. So much so, indeed, that it is estimated there is work for two men for five days to remove the timber. '. The Southern papers state that so much wool has been offering lately that some of the steamers have been obliged to refuse in consequence of having no room. The snow was lately one hundred feet deep at the West Taieri. Sheep were living beneath the snow, and sheep food was ' few and far between.' Alfred Julius Sickler, Esq., has been appointed Warden of the goldfields in the province of Marlborough. A telegram in the Hokitika Evening Star of the oth inst. (received by the John Perm on Tuesday), states that a rush had taken place that morning, four miles south of Brighton — one mile in-land from the beach. Two hundred miners are already on the ground. Twenty-five feet sinking. Five feet dirt by forty-five wide, supposed to be a lead. The prospect has yielded one grain to the shovel. There was great excitement at Brighton. Every available section taken up, and enormous prices are asked for property. The Westport Times of the 7th instant, gives further particulars of this recent rush near Brighton. It appears that the ground is situated *4£ miles from that place, that the prospect is half a grain to one grain to the shovel, and the sinking about 20 to 25 feet with three feet to four feet six inches of black sand. The news seems to have created quite a sensation in the almost moribund town of Brighton, though the ground, as far as yet discovered, is very limited. The prospector's party, three in number, have taken up nine men's ground, and there is very for anybody else, unless some other patches are struck. Nevertheless, the discovery seems to have infused new life into Brighton, jumping sections, both those which had already been occupied by tenantless public

houses and stores, and those from which buildings had been removed, being the order of the day. Considerable changes have taken place in newspaper affairs at Hokitika during the past week, the two moruiug papers — the Westport Times and the YVestland Observer — having become amalgamated, the proprietors of the latter journal having purchased the premises and goodwill of the former, and so much of its plaut and machinery as might be serviceable, inaddition to their own stock. The name of the older journal will be adopted, and the Weekly Leader is also incorporated with, it, the Evening paper, the Despatch, formerly issued from the Times Office, having ceased. It is stated that the storekeepers at the Hauhau have unanimously agreed, to give no more credit, and each person exhibits in a conspicuous place a clock without a pendulum, with the somewhat" significant legend 'no tick ' written underneath. It is said that a young man, a clerk in. one of the Auckland bauks, bought a share in a claim for £100, a few months back, and sold it the other day for £14,000.