ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. 'PHŒBE.'

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2003, 20 June 1870, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. 'PHŒBE.'

LATEST SOUTHERN SEWS. The s.s. Phrebc, Captain Worsp, arrived in the Maiiukatt this morning, bringing later news from the Sjutli:— DUXEDIX, .Tune 15. Two men have been drowned in attempting j to cross I..ake \\ anaka. ( One hundred and thirty tons of stone fi-jin j Iloughan's reel, near Cromwell, have been crushed, and have yielded 2i ozs. of retorted gold to the ton. | The Provincial Council lias ben prorogued. In his address, (he Superintendent guru ex- | pression to a conviction which he s.iid had been long foreetl upon him, that the present, system of Government, both General and Provincial, "was unnecessarily complex, and costly. There was, he thought, 100 much state about it, and some change should be maile. The subject required due consideration, -.111(1 the new form of Government should emanate fr.»m the intelligent convictions of the people of the colony. THK WAIKAtf GOLDFIKLIH. There has been no communication with the new field during the week, owing to the bud weather. On Moml.iv some of those who have been there from the commencement of the rush returned, and some reports «'■ re prevalent of good liud-, but. they luck corroborat ion. Dorreen (or Marshall), ot llavelock, the finder of the 27 dwt., nugget, is said to have found others weighing respectively 1 oz. and i oz. The only authentic information we can give is contained in the following letters : — " Hurt hit's Gully, dune 2nd. — Sir, —1 wish to contradict any insertion in your paper, or ,itiv other, respecting me and my mates. We have noL struck anything to cause any men to come from a distance to this place. In the prospectors' guIW there are some three or four claims paying about ten shillings per day at present, and there are parties in different gullies prospecting; but up to the present time there is nothing found to cause any rush to this place.— \ ours, Ac., Cuahi.i:s Thompson ami mates." —M<trlborutt'jh J-i.rpress, June 11.