MARLBOROUGH AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 174, 3 June 1864, Page 4

MARLBOROUGH AFFAIRS.

'['hi: Suprrintrndnit of Marboroitgh has opened the Provincial Council with llic nniuiinimiinit that the sum of i.'2'J.OOO is at. present in the Treasury. Hi' re cuiiiinc'inls the construction of roads tin thv.-ith. and ' int.'litis t.> introduce a Loan Hill for tin- purpose of i:ii.-iiiiC tin- necessary fluids fin- t lie construction of a rail or triiuwav between Pieton anil tlio V, airau j jiiain. The whstrl'nire accommodation of I'icton, : i u.'iihi'iin. and liavelork —the la.-t lias horn declared 1! a ! *. >1; of ' Kntry—is to bo at once externa d, and a drain to iUcililate the e-cape of tlio water from the !"», r p.>itii>u of tin' "Wairau plain is to bo const nut od. A new dailv jajicr. In ho railed (lie Anju*. is to he established al" Havelok, the men and plant for that purpose having arrived Iron! Huiiedm. The Ma.-lhuromjh JW** reports tliat Pic!oil is remarkably orderly " not w ithstaiidiug the enorinou.s inci'ea-e'to the population." It further observes that: -••Till' ' Albion" steamer, ■which arrived here a lew tlavs sinee, brought over from Dunedin, .Mr. Morton, Inspector of Police, Sergeant .Moore, and Constables Herein. Ouickshanks ami KinseUer. This small but wrlfsrlerted force have not commenced duty. It was. we believe, proposed to place them at Hnveloek, bid llirir prrselice in the township would be almost useless without the presence of two .) usi irrs of the I'eare to adjudicate upon sin-h cases as might be la-might before them. 'l'heiv is 110 lock-up at I lave- ' 1111■ k. and nil building which could he used as ii Court ; House. L'ntil the necessary preparalions are made i lor holding a court of pelly sessions, I lie presence of the police al ilavflock won'ld prove of very iittie rc;d service." i With reference to the diggings the special correspondent of the JWxx, under date May 22ud, writes: —"Tlio intelligence I have to forward you in this communication is certainly not of the most cheering or encouraging character, The late ruins have Hooded the river, all the good claims are under water and quite unworkable. 11l short I may say that, every milling operation is al a complete standstill. r i here ; have net'ii numbers out prospect ills; now ground, but ; wilhou! having been successlul. All the diggers are idle with very few exceptions.'' J hiring last Monday and Tuesday the following steamers arrived at Hawick from the South, viz : — the 'Albion,' ' Hero,' ' Moa,' 'lady of the Lake'; and (lie 'Storm Uird' from Wellington, and the • • Cilv of Dunedin' at l'icton, together with a number of vessels, including thr luosijuilo licet irom \Vrllin:i>on, the 'Tyne'froin Wellington, and the 'Zcphvr' from Auckland ; the whole of which wore loaded' with passengers. — Adrcrtixcr, i ; Arav 20. :• * i A I'\i:AOii.\l'll is going the rounds informing us I 'Mhat a new steam whi-tle to arouse workmen six | ; feet high and lifteeu inches in diameter has been 1 creeled on Coil's revolver factory, ill .Hartford, ; I Connecticut." The whistle Duly wakes tall lucil of j ; considerable diameter it would appear.

Tirr T>.\nne-"\Vkj:ke.—Sir Kmcr-c n T iment givea in the turrent number of Sole* and Queries some learned and interesting antiquarian and historical notices of this ancient Danish defence:—" Torfaius says the name is not Dana-verk, ' Dnnnruin-opus,' but Dana-virki, ' naiiorimi vallum,' or the ' Danish entrenchment.' Mr. I.ainir, in his version of the ■ ' Hoiinskrinsrla,' says in a note at ]). 2!UI, vol i., that it va raided by Ilarald I'.laatanil to resist the incursion • t'' 'harle'majrne. liut whatever the date of its original formation, this remarkable work was in com- ! plete preservation and ellieiency in the time of the Kins: Olaf 'I't-'-girvi-.-on, who reigned in Xorway ! between A.I). !)!>•'» anil JOfiO; and his Sag,-i recounts i the two expeditions conducted by the Kmperor Otlio, I to compel the Onii"S hy force of arms to conform to Clu'istianity. History (remarks Sir Emerson. Tennent) it is said repeats ilselt : and the l'esidt of the assault of the Kmperor Otlio 1;;:j 11 parallel itl thl) pvrsi nt war between tiie Prussians and the Danes; when tlie former, instead of persevering ill the attack 011 t)ii' 1 >anne-verke. turned tlie flank of the defenders hy a movement across the Sehlei, by \vliich they succeeded in landing then* troops in the real'of the irreat embankment. Precisely the samG stratOLlV is stated, in the to have been lesorted to by the (ieimaii Kmperor nearlv a thousand years before. Karl Hakim, who c<>niiii:iTiile<! the side oi tho Djuioh, su every assault oi tilG om-mv, that Otlio fell Lack towards the South, colleeted iiis ships of "war at tlie mouth of tho Scldei, 'anded them to the north of the Danne-verke, and eventuallv achieved a victory." —European Times, February 2ii. A Scotch correspondent says that a noted dlSSOlltfT reeenttv had an interview with the Tope which was very friendly, his Holiness chafliifir the Scotch L'l'lltleiimn (who could not see it) about the doctrii.e.-i of his persuasion. Out.' blow was. however, too powerful, and the Sn,;e> man saiil h- was suddenly seized with l ain in his " wnme," and would like to retire. "What's that;-" said the l'ope. "liis wame's jist his eoncience, your Holiness,"'said the Scotch interpreter, " which" he thought you were toiielitnsr too m ar." And so exit the dissenting gent, backwards, to the yratiiication of the l'ope, who enjoyed tin.- .joke.