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New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2484, 17 July 1865, Page 2

Up to the time of oar going to prow, thin was no sign of the English mail, or any fail* news. I - We understand that the members of Am* bly will leave by the * Kgraont,' oo Wedosfr day, the 19 th. and not to-nurrow, 'as was |tt» viously intended.

To the particulars published by oar omt«av porary the Southern Cross on Saturday, iJMpii ing the horrible murder committed at Ipso*, we are able to add the following informatioa, It appears that not only hat the murdtrer noceeded hitherto in baffling the polios, bat tkt 1 most strenuous exertions of the latter fsiwttoearies have altogether failed in disc vwiug whs 1 was the victim, how, why, and wherefore,bscr •he was killed, or even what has becum of tat % body. What adds to the mystery, is that M one seems to be missing from that neighs*. hood, and consequently the myrraifons of ths law have no clue to guide the-n in this diflesk matter. It has been suggested by s me tW| . the Southern. Cross ought to be hel'l rospgasisll for this murder until further evidence, stslsf that it appears to know more about it tfcss atr one else- Some sceptical persons tare ski hinted that our contemporary's informaut fat in that condition which so well becomes gesaV men of convivial habits, and so ill becomes uW money market (we neea-net supply the morii), . and that In ibis instance the max in of »'»#tM Veritas has been signally reversed. Hoatfsf this may be, if no murder has been conerfttst, a little sensation has been made, wMehaaf answer the purpose equally welt sad Mil pleasantly. Saturday was St. Swithin's day, or ths fe thai day of St. Bwithin, who was Bishopef ■ Winchester about the middle of the ninth ess* tury. Tradition says that if it wins ou tbissay it will rain for forty succeeding d»ys,a»s«f/ one well knows ; bat as we have already tai, pretty nearly that allowance, tt is to be nopal that the saint is not about to giveasaassV ditional quantum of wet weather, though H looks very like it. The tradition is, that til bishop on bis ieathbed asked to be borisd si the churchyard of his cathedral, bat bis 0* gregation insisted on laying him sriifcfci *• church itself, as a mark of the gnat v«e*fsjl« in which they held him. The saint .M Jltf able to persuade them to give him ths/ip* lowly resting-place, told them that if thsf ■*" sisted, rain would come down from he** in sufficient quantities to wash his body ess" the church into the garden,; and so it did, son at the end of forty days the body »*• •■M into the place where, when it lived, its "»•*,§ wished it to be placed. Ever since then th« »■* on St. Swithin's Day and the follotri'l *¥• occurs as a memorial of the event. SnafcilpJ js generally received tradition; hatoaslfaw.v; foundation for this pluvious visitation is gi*»V which is derived from the cUcnmstauoo **•* some particular constellations, wbich , ai*»f|£|L posed to have the character of porteadiif «■%;> rise with the sun about this period ##!# fv<\ thereby show that some wseU' i*lJj be expected if it commences about of July. Those who behove these tie**" will look forward wkh but little phi**? ;'.■■. wading through the streets of ths *»*»■* ano-her term of nearly six weeks. By the • Novelty,' irhich arrived hut, we learn that the chimney «*****,;£. the engine of the Coromaadol QoM M. Company was blown down, daring ikajffi gales oa Tuesday hut, and all 1 that company are consequently stopped time being. The Kapanga Company ing very rich quart* from the ne» ** ta struck. ~ 1 ' By the «Bylph,' which have intelligence that entertained as to the safety of Cameron,' schooner. She left tfct lands, for Awanni, on the 10th, and since been seen or heard of. which hate lately prevailed oa the <*»Pffi nscauMtohavegrav»fea»Mtots»«« ~w I the¥ * Me '* . I A person, in a •% hU J* tof "* T-Jl ' passing up Grey-street, on Saw**? |- ;;. f

.jmd on reaching a shop, threw himself right through the window boards, shoaling for " Sixpea'orth of brandy hot." The place «ot being * public-house, the intruder was ejected into the middle of the street —no small penalty for his crime in the present state of Grey- . street.

We are gl» ( ' t0 ieo tn *t che Commissioners are taking active steps to make a commencement in Mechanics' Bay, as a large quantity -O r bricks is now laid down for the construction of the viaduct and cnl verts in that portion of the Auckland and Drury railway. An unfortunate Ban /el' down in a fit on the pavement in Qaeen-scraet on Saturday aftersoon, cut the side of his face, rather severely in "hi* fall, am? with the heaviness of the fall made the blood start out of his ears. He was evidently snbject to this sad affliction, and when restored, managed to find bis way home again wi hj tVe assistance of one of the police. We have lately seen some specimen* of a new art in New Zealand, that has been introduced by Mr. Pric-, a gentleman who has recently arrived from England. We allude to chotographie likenesses colored in oil. These likenesses have the troth of the photograph •with the artistic finish of the oil painting ; and as the coloring is laid on an enamelled surface, time cannot affect them, and they will look as -bright in a hundred years hence as they do now with the softened tone that time always gives to oil-coloring. Mr. Price is at present engaged in coloring photographs taken by Messrs. Bartlett and Taylor, which are well 'worth an inspection as samples of the perfection to which the combined arts can be brought. Amongst others, we may mention that of a child lying on a conch and partially covered wi.h drapery, as particularly striking, although as yet nnfinixhed. The unconstrained attitude ■of the figure is most felicitous, and the beauty of the coloring gives it % lifelike appearance that the unassisted neutral tints of the photograph cannot attain. But the gem of Mr. Price's collection is certainly a likeness of the Princes* of Wales—a half-length figure, dressed in evening costume. We understand that this portrait has passed the inspection ot the Prince of Wales himselt, and met with the warmest encomiums from him, at which we can hardly wonder, w'en we inspect it through a powerful magnifying glass, and find that that searching ordeal only confirms its merits as a chefd'ouvre. Mr. Price has many other of these miaia'ure works of art, some being small enough to fit in lockets, aad all equally well fitted to pass this

On Stturday afternoon »n accident happened at Onehonga to a young man named Mintern, «bich might have been attended with very i-tere, if not fatal, results. It appears that Wil litres' Hotel, in Que -n-street, which has been lec'.mly erected, wat incoone of being painted, sand If intern and another were on a scaffolding •€ied iutiide the rerandah, at about a height of about SO met from the ground. The other workman wm jnet Mapping on to the verandah, when the lesbians g«.ve way, and Mintern was pre- - cipitated violently to the ground; the whole of Ike polar, planking, fcc,, falling upon him. He was picked ap in an almost insensible condition (for betide* hit bodily injuries, some of the taunt had got down the poor fellow's throat), and conveyed to the house, where a glass of b rawly >ome what restored him He was se•r erely bruited and shaken, so much so, that the meuieal man who attended him declared it -woald be quite impossible for him to resume work for at lei at a week. The host of the Alexandra Hotel, Te Awaasstu, which was opened on Monday, the Srd instant, gave a nocturnal banquet on thai evening, to iaargnrate the event -in • becoming laaaner. The supper was of a very substantial and the liquids were in such superabundance as to remind one of' Anderson's in--aalisastibJo bottle. After appropriate toasts and spstchse, Mr. Charles Montrose, the only ■ember of the Imperial service present, re. -•ponded to a toast in connection with the Imperial Army, in a trite and soldierlike manner. "the party did not separate until an early hour •em the morning of Tuesday, and the gallant host <w!m» is an ex-sergeant of militit) was as, well . < mtitted with his guests as they were with his liberality, affability, and kindness, which no •doubt will be thoroughly recollected by the }«rtidpa|pra, all of whom appeared of a very j jvial stamp. A earn of a cart being bogged occurred on lalaiday in oar principal street, Queen-street, opposite Mr. W. J. Young's store. The elites] efforts of three horses only had the effect of breaking the shafts off the cart, but did not move it from the place where the wheels had 4 * taken root." The Marllarowjh, Press has changed hands, its former proprietors baviog sold it to a Newspaper Company (Limited), consisting of about * store of persons residing in the locality. The manager of the paper, we should think, »wiil have soma difiavlty to please the public -tat) rhe individual proprietors.--xVefso/t Colonist. IWe quite agree with our contemporary as to ai» latter remark—Ed. M.Z.] - A new copper mine has been discovered in Wsagaaoi. A specimen of the ore bat been brought ap by Captain Rackatraw, of the * Jh ▼*/ tcbooner.

▲ party in Picton, says the Mdrtborongk jftoas, is now profitably employed in curing hmwifs, which an so abundant in the Sound ifawiy 1,400 doses have been tent to Melbourne, sod more than doable that quantity ia soH far the Sydney market. A large quantity save alto fetched a lair price in this market The following advertisement copied from a Tsrasshi sapor will be of interest to the relstjfsi and Wends of Miss Brig«s in this prowises :—" The undersigned, acting ss agent for Miss Brim, one of the passengers wrecked at -tsslsaw » the ' Lord Woraley' steamer, will Savory happy to psy cash to any persons who looted jewellery sad other property from the satires in the recent' expedition beyond Wans, snder Colonel Warm, C.B. Miss Brigga' list of property lost, comprises family relics, which csosot be replaced.—W. Hal*s." Urn following is given by s correspondent of the Wmgmmi Cknmich, as the remarks of one «rf our native allies on the late bungling in not 4ssJng the Wereros Ps:—" Too much the walk shoot, too much the 'korsro,' too little the tight There are oalys hundred men in the V*— we could now eaaily take it; next week, when the big gun aad plenty of soldiers come em, there will be hundreds ot fighting men from sJI around the pa, and soldiers march swsy *gsio sum aa «ther dsy. Too much the *kaUno{' thspskehsd d fool." Tus gold shipped by the Tsrsros yesterday far Sydney, was ss follows : Old. Bssk of N*w Zealand 5,700 Bank of New Bomb Wales ... s.:>o<> Union Bsnk of Australia ... 5,158 _ ' 'T/otal «. ... 16,858 This is not so large s shipment as was made the preceding month by nearly 3,000 ouices, 9 the qssstity exported in June being lt.lßß The resaon of this foiling off is not in ♦he yield of gold, but throoL'h there having been ' wo steamer from Bokitika for the last ten days. It was understood the hut steamer that came ■«*> le't s large quantity of gold in the hands of she Bask agents at the diggings, which they hsd sot been able to eeod to port— NiUom ■TessiniivJulyi.

COROMANDEL. (fboh our own correspondent.) July 12,1865. The ' Novelty,' p.s., arrived here this afternoon at 4 p.m., bringing a mail and thirty-two passengers, but unfortunately it being low water, the passengers were compelled either to stay on board, or make up their minds for a mudlark, there being no convenience for landing. The weather is very bad, and our roads are almost impassable. At Rapanga they are being metalled, but what is the use of patting metal on mud ? The conseque-ce will be in a week or two the metal will find its way to the bottom, and we shall have the same old thing over again, knee deep in mud. It is a great oversight on the part of the Government in not having commenced the roads in the early part of the dry season, when the money might have been spent effectually. The accounts from our gold-fields are socewhat encouraging. The Kapanga of late has been raising some very rich stone. This claim has sent nearly three thousand ounces of gold to the market this year. It may well be said from the small amount of ground that has been spent in opening up the claim it is second to none in the known world. The manager is now erecting a Chilian mill at the tail of their battery, through, which all their tailings will pass. It is expected that by this process a great saving will be made in gold that would not otherwise amalgamate. About forty men are employed in working this claim.

The Union Reef Company is about to crush five hundred tons of their stone at the Auckland Quartz Crushing Company's Battery. The raising of the stone is to be done by contract. Tenders were accepte d to-day for raising the amount at seven and six* pence per ton. delivered at the battery. Thn reef will average from 3 to 4 feet in width, and 36 feet in length, by 60 feet high. When it is opened up ready for taking away, this will contain some thousands of tons. A prospecting shaft has also been sunk by the company close to Murphv 's, for from the reef that Murphy is working upon, which was struck at 45 feet, and driven along at a distance of about 25 feet, some specimens of gold have been taken.

At Murphy's, the adjoining claim, they are raising a pile of quartz for crushing, and it appears from their proceedings that they are well satisfied with their late crushing, and I believe their intention is to erect crushing machinery for themselves.

Allcock's, or rather another part of ■ the Murphy's Reef Gold Mining Company's claim, is raising some very rich wash dirt. During the heavy gale of last night the engine stack of the Coromandel Gold Mining Company fell to the ground, which has brought the works to a standstill, but it is to be hoped it will soon be built again and the works resumed. At this claim the well-known Kapanga auriferous leader has been struck at a depth of eighty feet below the level of the Driving Creek, being also the same leader that shows such favorable croppings at Scottie's No. 3 claim, on the banks of the creek. The engine shaft is 216 feet deep; there is a very sanguine hope entertained as to the ultimate success of this company.

PAPAKURA.

(from odr own correspondent.) July 16. Thomas Lilly was this day brought before Charles Melsop, Esq., R.M.. charged with vagrancy. Corporal John Bain, 2nd Waikato Militia, quartered at the Miranda Redoubt, Thames, proved that the prisoner was found in, or near, that post in a most destitute coudition, with no apparent means of support, and not being able to give a satisfactory account of himself, was consequently apprehended. Constable King proved bis apprehension, and to some former convictions against him. The charge being fully proved, and the prisoner having nothing to urge in his defence, he was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labor. His Honor the Superintendent paid a visit to Pokeno this week. It is to be hoped he will cause some improvement to be made to the roads, &c., in this district. Lieutenant Calvert (son of the late Captain Calvert), Waikato Militia, V.S.C.T. Corps, arrived here last night from Wanganui.

CAMBRIDGE. (from our own CORRKSPONDENT.) July 12. The detachments recently stationed at the posts on the Wairoa line, and at Razorback, belonging to the 3rd Waikato Regiment, have arrived here to join the head-quarters of their regiment. It is expected that these detachments will relieve the men irhoareat present on pay at this post, and at Pakekura (an cut-post of about four miles distance), until Government have got sufficient land surveyed for this settlement. The 3rd Waikato Regiment have now nearly settled the whole of their men ; the only ones on detachment are a company at Rangireri, and part of a company at the Surrey Redoubt, on the Thames. It seems tire general opinion of experienced persons in this district, that the land here is of ▼ery good quality, and I believe it will ultimately be one of the most flourishing settlements on the Waikato. The men are building whares on their allotments, and to all appearance purpose becoming permanent settlers. As far as I can ascertain, everything is at present very quiet amongst the natives in this district. I have not heard anything of Thompson's movements since my arrival, as I have had so short a time to make enquiries, but I trust to be able to give you all the news at greater length in my next. A number of men who have been struck off pay are employed Jmaking the road from Cambridge to Hamilton, under the able supervision of Captain Richards. This road is beir.g made on the proper left bank of the river, and when finished, will be a great advantage to the settlers, as the present road is almost impassable in wet weather, being intersected by several deep gullies, which, when the water is flooded, are not safe for passengers to cross.

WELLINGTON. (raou ova. spkoiai. ookbespondknt.) July 5. Tub delay in the arrival of the English mail has to-day reached the number of daya we had to wait last month, and people are beginning to ask how often we are to suffer, this vexation of getting seventy deys' news instead of fifty-six, for which the contract provides, and for which too we pay, and that liberally. In Victoria they are quite roused to a sense of the nuisance which a constant disappointment in the English mail causes for both public and private correspondence, and the Assembly has taken the question into consideration. A fortnightly mail, under more stringent terms of contract, will very probabl> be the result, and they may even propose an arrangement for the use, under certain conditions, of the Panama mail line, so as to secure the receipt of a portion of their correspondence with some certainty. On the supposition that our General Assembly approves of the Featherston contract with the Panama company, of which but few can entertain auy doubt, the Australian colonies will at last be secure, little short of absolutely, against the provoking suspense they have to endure now so frequently, for nnless there was s general European war, or an outbreak between England and America, of which people have no longer the smallest fear, it is scarcely possible for any one cause of delay to operate on both steam lines, each traversing a different hemisphere. New Zealand is in so doubtful a condition just now not—exactly between life and death, but in that crisis, as it were, of a malignant fever, when a men accident may cause sudden dissolution, or bring about convalescence for the patient, her fate is hanging so perilously ia the balance—that the nervous system of our social and political life is sensitive to s painful degiee to the intelligence from home. At this moment it would be actually worth thousands to the country to know whether the Imperial Governmeat still approve of the Weld policy, in the matte* of the troops and of the removal of the Government, bnt we most now probably wait till the next mail is due before anything mora can be learnt on what affects the most vital interest* of

the colony. I see that the Auckland papers •peak of an intended visit to England, as the reason for Mr. Weld's relinquishment of the Secretaryship. Were it not that the most accurate and trustworthy intelligence of doings in Wellington often reach Auckland, and are- published long before they are even heard of here, I should say it was a mistake ; but nothing of the sort has become known here as yet. It is on the face of it extremely improbable, when the session will soon demand all the attention and weight that the Government can command in order to secure them even an existence.

It is some time since any incident of the war has called forth such an expression of feeling as the Wereroa Pa business has done. The tone of public opinion runs pretty generally one way, as might be presumed, where Imperial and colonial powers are thud found in an attitude of direct antagonism. The accounts of the dispute have no doubt reached you in as ample a shape as we have seen them in ; so that I need not recapitulate the points of the quarrel. The Governor left here on Monday evening for Wanganui, for the purpose of making an inquiry for his own satisfaction; but unfortunately—or, perhaps it would be more correct to say, fortunately for the colony, fo'r his Excellency is not usually successful in makiug peace —the 'Eclipse' could not look at the bar,'nor could he be landed over the heavy surf which was rolling in; and so he has returned this evening. One regret in considering the matter is more prevalent than any other, and that is caused by the resignation of their commissions by M'Donnell and Von Tempsky. It is to be hoped that these officers, who have, ever since their courageous exploit together at Paparata, rendered great service to our side, not so much by what thej r have achieved, as by their intrepid bearing before the rebels,- may be induced to resume command. The fact of Colonel Logan having resigned his post as agent to the General Government for the Wanganui district, must surely afford to the former gentleman all the satisfaction which the affront might be supposed *o require; and it would be at no risk of any relinquishment of the amende honorable which they were quite right in expecting as officers, and as the legitimate captors of the Wereroa Pa. The good result will certainly follow this episode, of checking the overbearing pretensions of ambitious Queen's officers, and making them somewhat more cautious than they have been all through the war, of riding roughshod over the privileges, to say nothing of the rights as gentlemen, which pertain to the officers whose commissions may only entitle them to wear a sword in this colony. July 9. Still there are no signs of the mail, and we are making up our minds to having to wait till the 22nd, when the May news is due. The plans of business men, of the Government, of the troops, and of his Excellency as much as any, have all been disturbed for the last fortnight by the state of suspense in which we have been kept, and there will be no small difficulty in adapting ourselves to the changes which two months' intelligence from home may occasion. The irregularity of the steamers has been hitherto borne with very patiently, but it is certain that another delay such as this will call forth from all these colonies a protest against the interests of all classes being thus contemptuously treated as a mere trifle by the company who have been favored with the mail subsidy. The Governor has again left for the seat of was but a different one from that which he last attempted to visit, and it is to be hoped it will be to better purpose. The ' Eclipse' steamed out ot Port Nicholson last evening for Napier, and very possibly the trip may extend to Waiapn, where so gallant a resistance is being maintained by Te Mokena to the fanatic horde assembled in the Walapu valley. As an old acquaintance,! was a good deal moved at reading MohiTurei's account of the straits to which the loyal combatants had been leduced, and many of your readers were so too, I have no doubt; for Mohi's pretensions to the ministerial office, and to open sincerity and truthfulness, at which it is the fashion to sneer when claimed for a Maori, are entitled to a'far greater respect than those of most Maori clergymen, in whom, as a body, Ido not at all believe. My wonder in reading his description of the fight at Pukemaire, was that Morgan's men escaped so easily, for knowing the position well, I can say it would be as hard to assault is any pa in the island. The village is on the summit of a hill overlooking the valley, which slopes evenly down on three sides, all of which, except where a bit of dense bush would prevent, could be swept by the rifles of the. force holding the position. The fourth side consists of the rising ground connecting the spur with the main range of hills, and could be easily protected by a stout palisade. By this time Morgan's party are of course in possession of abundance of arms and ammunition, and I know their chiefs pluck will be quite equal to the difficulties of his position. Wellington was considerably " moved " one morning last week from a different cause altogether than sensational war news. About halfpast ten we were treated to a gentle rocking as we sat in our chairs, sufficient to swing any pendent article in a room visibly out of its place, as I witnessed for myself. To those even who felt it most plainly, the earthquake occasioned no kind of alarm, and the motion was gentle enough to be rathe ■ pleasing than otherwise. It felt to me as it the hills were indulging in a shiver ; it was a quick shake, three or four times repeated, and over in eight or ten seconds. Only those felt it who were seated at the moment of its occurrence.

The Wellington Provincial Council assembles on Tuesday in the Supreme Court House, and many bills are in course of preparation for it to consider. After the close contest for the Superintendence', a great deal of interest is felt in the probable strength of the opposition, and it will require all Dr. Featherston's tact to weather a session, which promises to be a stormy one.