THE SOUTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 649, 11 December 1865, Page 4

THE SOUTH.

Bt the arrival of the Queen, we have our full files from the South. 'Ihere is no netvs of startling importance. We perceive by the New Zealand Gazette, of the 29th November, that the Superintendent of Taranaki has declared the Waipingara valley, about H miles north of the military post at the White C liff, a quarantine ground for infected cattle, and has permitted the landing of cattle from infected districts anywhere on the sea beach for three miles north, of the above military post. The Wellington papers contain no news, hut the following criticism, not very creditable to the political character of the late Colonial Treasurer, Mr. Fitzherbert, appears in the Advertiser of the 4th inst.:—

Since the resignation of the Weld Ministry, and the meeting of electors wh'ch was subsequently held at the Hutt, wo have heard nothing of Mr. William Fitzhorhert. hut by tho last Provincial Government Gazeiie w-! find that he has again turned up in bis old capacity of < 'ommissioner of Crown Lands. No doubt tho peculiar state of things hy which so convenient an arrangement can be made meets with the approbation of Mr. Fit2herbert ami his friends, but, while we honestly recognise the service* rendored by tho lato Colonial Treasurer as a Mini.-ter. wo canntt hesitate to denounce tho system as beinsr vicious, which allows of a gentlen an prostituting his pnWw position in this way. When Mr. Fitzherbert becamea Vliniser it was certainly his dutj to have rev'gn-'d his Commissionership. and th»n, hail the office b-cn still vacant when ho cea?ed lo bo ' oionial Tro surer, few people would have been disposed fr>- quibble at his rc-appointme' t, but to hold both offices Ht one and the .-ame tiu.c, and to quietly loturn to his old pastures when he le't the new ones, is highly discreditable, a d not at all in aeo >rd incft with nccep'od rule* of pnlcical honesty. We have been told thM Mr. Fitzherb'-rt had no" wi-h'' to bold both ofiK-es. but, whether that ho so or not, the fact is before lis that he did eo, aud by official amrMim-ement vre are told that on e more ha reclines in ease as Commissioner of Crown Lands f.* tho Province of Wellington.

Tlie Wanganui Times of the 21st ult., contains the following : — " In our la~t i c sne we mentioned that tho body of tho lute Mr Charles llroughtoii, innrd red by tho native son the Bth nltimii, had been found about two miles up the Patca river and buried on tho fp't. Shortly after publication wo were favoured, ht tho request of Rrigndier-Neneral Wnddy, withthe following particulars. The body of Mr. B'ouehton was discovered about a mile nni a I'.alf from tbe Patea Redoubt, on the bank of tho river, and quite nakod. His ring was on hi fiuger, thr< e tomahawk woundsdeep cuts—on the back of ihe heal, but no further mutilation. The body was too much decompo-ed to h> removed, and was" therefore buried whoro found. We are told that the giave will bo enclosed, and a head-stone oreited hy his fi.mily. From tho above facts it is now certain that there was no foundation for the statement made in the Southern Cross a« to cruelties having bven jerpe'rated on tho body after tho foul murder was committed. Let us hope that condign puni-hment will ore long overtake the perpetrators of that cold-blooder 1 murder. Mr. Broughton's appointment as Native Interpreter to the Colonial Defenco Department is in*w filled by Mr. VVilliim renkins, wlioie services '8 Government Inspector have extended over a period of seventeen or eighteen years." We regret to say that the small pox has ajjiuu mndo its appearance on board tho Blue .Jacket at Lyttleton. The Times reports that— On Saturday tho Health Officer (I>r Rouse) and Captain Armstrong, Emigration Officer, went down to Camp Bav, t" decide whit was best t> be dono under the circumstances. The conclusions come to were these:—The wholeof theemigranls to bounded and housed in the barracks, the invalid- to bo placed under canvas in the opposite gully, at a dist inert from the other entrants- A'l ommunicatiou strictly forbidden, and Dr. Macdonald, of the Tudor, was engaged to assist Dr, Wilimhurst.