VICTORIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 98, 10 March 1862, Page 4

VICTORIA.

PROBABILIT V" O F W A 11,

PANIC IN MELBOURNE.

(From our oion Correspondent.) Melbourne, Wednesday, February 23. 2 We have now given up all hope of this month's t mail, and have >:ottled down to wait patiently for the next one. Rumor has been very rife, mid every little scrap of intelligence lias been very 1 eagerly looked for, and although in reality ive ', have no later dates—as we had telegrams up to 1 December 2—we have newspapers per " Suffolk 1 two days later than that brought by the mail. 1 These give very full particulars of the capture of i Messrs Sliddell and Mason, the Southern Com- - missioners, by the Federal steamer " San t Jacinto." It appears that on receipt of the intulJ ligence in England the whole of the Press dei nounced the capture as an insult to our flag, and s several warm public meetings had been held con - demnatory of the outrage, and calling upon the 1 Government to demand simple redress. A vessel s from the Mauritius, three days ago, brought us one or two additional items to the effect that the matter was formally discussed in the Cabinet, a '" case drawn up and submitted to the British Crown s Law Officers, and that they have decided that this It act committed by the American captain was a violtiit tion of the rights of nations and of international law, and an insult towards England, and that satis.- ---" faction should be demanded. From the same s source we have the following additional item . dated :— London, Dec. Ist. The Times, and the Morninij Post admit that y probably the Northern States will not yield to the cloe mands of England. If the Federal Government ro- „ fuses satisfaction,* the English Minister will quit ' Washington. c The export of saltpetre has been prohibited in Engt land. The intelligence spread through the coiony, and was considered sufficient to prepare us for n hearing that war had actually broken out. Our -- neighbours at Sydney report, they were also very c much excited at the above information. So great a was the feeling here, that yesterday people felt very uneasy at a telegram which appeared in the "Argus " -from .Cape Shanck, mysteriously liint- * ing about cannonading having been distinctly )f heard at sea on Saturday night for at least two hours. Of course it could be nothing more or . less than the Americans off our coast; and during the day it oozed out it was actually an '". American vessel that had been firing, and that i- she had actually taken—uot the battery- at the y lighthouse—but a pilot! It was simply an ore dinary firing after dark for a pilot, and the return salute of the pilot schooner " Corsair." This little incideiit received needless importance from c the fact that the telegram did not come in the s usual waj, but was sent to the Government, and J the CLief Secretary had sent it to the " Argus " c at four o'clock in the morning, as something very startling. 2 But the rumours did not end here. The a "Laughing Water" arrived during the day from n Mauritius, with dates from that place a month i old, and was presumed to have later news on board. Later in the evening it was asserted the Government were in possession of 1.4 days' later news, and that war had been declared. Every pound of tobacco was immediately out of first hands I Whether the captain as well as his ship was a "laughing" kind of individual, I don't know, but no satisfactory answer could be got from him, except that he left just as the stunner supposed to be the mail was entering Mauritius. The rumour this morning was, that the captain had actually later and important news, and, finding how matters stood, wished to turn tin honest penny, by refusing to divulge anything until paid for it. There does not appe.ir to be any truth in that rumour. The ''mysterious" does not end here, but is the " order of the day," and the latest is that something' very important has transpired in India, of so very grave a nature that the Governor-Gene-ral had chartered a special steamer, at a cost of Xl;),000, to convey the expresses to London. The following are the particulars as thoy appeared, in the Argus, as nai rated by a passenger per last mail ; why he has kept it secret till now is another "mystery" :—He met at Suez the captain of tha P. and 0. Company's steamer "Ganges," then lying at anchor in that port, and learnt from "him that the " Ganges" had been sent off, at a very short notice, from Bombay, to overtake the regular steamer, ami to carry an officer with special and highly urgent despatches from the Indian Government to the home authorities. The captain of the Gauges was ordered on no account to allow of any coiaimmication between any of his crew and the shove, either at Aden or at Suez ; and he was to wait at the latter port for a reply to the despatches. At the time of the Benares leaving Suez, the Ganges had been a week in port, and her .appearance there under the circumstances, and as a supplement to the regular mail steamer, was exciting considerable curiosity. The Indian papers, we are informed, were strictly forbidden to take any notice of the Ganges sudden departure, jv to indulge in any speculations as to her errand ; but we gather that it was generally believed that she was flic bearer of some extraordinary news, of auature uot to bo trusted even to the Mediterranean telegraph wires. Whether the mystery- refers to the discovery of another rebellion in India, the appearance of a foreign enemy on the frontier, or any great financial difficulty, it is, of course, impossible for us to conjecture." The Land Bill has got over some of its worst difficulties. Not only Mr. Service, and Mr. Loader's amendments have been negatived by considerable majorities, but others of not much less importance have been disposed of in a manner equally satisfactory to the Government and their squatting friends. The bill has now reached the 29th clause, two clauses having been postponed. Its main, features are preserved, and only very unimportant amendments have yet been made in it. There has not yet been any rain, and the upconntrv districts arc beginning to feel the effects of the/long continued drought. Ballnrat is hcgining to get afraid that unless rain fall speedily. their water will be entirely cut off, as not more than six inches remain in the swamp whence they draw their supply, and the Municipal Councils and local papers advise the people in the meantime to. be very economical in the use of the water." The All England Eleven, after suffering defeat at the hands of the combined Elevens of Sydney ._ mid Victoria, have been playing inllpbart Town, where, so far as the game has gone, they appear - to be very successful. A curious instance of the working of the new tariff in Tasmania has come to light ; on the arrival of Sir William Don, he was charged ,£lO as ad valorem duty on his private carriage. Mr. M'Culloch, the ministerial candidate, was returned for Morningtou by a large majority. Michie retired at the last moment ; indeed never consented to stand ; and the Opposition, or Ilealcs party, arc so politically dead and pecuniarily done for, that they could not get up another candidate, and left M'Culloch to walk the course. The local publicans did not believe in this, acd started a Mr. William Notley, lately retired from business (in their own line.) He appeared to have no programme, and could not " spout," and • therefore, to all intents and purposes, he was a sham candidate. A rather disgraceful scene occurred on Saturday morning in the Assembly. Mr. Wilson Gray said O'Shunassy had ouce been a brawling democrat, when the last-named hon. member promptly replied, had he said so in another place, lie would have applied the toe of his boot to the hou. member. j\ftcr some angry recrimination order was restored and business proceeded. " the City Council have becii so famed for scenes that it is not every day desirable to call attention to them, but on Monday last it was rather beyond ordinary, and the expressions of "beasts," "geese," and "liars," were freely bandied about. It is considered advisable to bring in some stringent measure into the legislature to provide a remedy-for

th's kinrl of ujironr, which scrionslv reflects upon the credit of the city generally. The Mayor is not able to maintain order, and at times he is'himself aspaileil in a most'discreditable manner ; at last meeting he was culled a "wretched muff'" (which is no doubt all the more offensive because it is true) and that he had " no business in the chair." Hynes, a Balliirat farmer, sentenced to death for shooting one of his men, has Ik-cii reprieved, and sentence altered to imprisonment for life, first three .years in irons. Sir Dominic Daly, the new Governor of South Australia, lately arrived by the Suffolk, is on a visit to Ballarnt. He leaves for his new sphere of duties by the Havilah on Saturday first. The markets lately have been very dull on account of the non-arrival of the mail. Flour is declining, and quotations for best Adelaide are twenty shillings lower than last advices to your port, being now .£l3 10s. Ordinary brands' are j£l2 10s. to .£l2 155.; wheat, ss. 3d. to ss. 4d. Onts are firm and even a shade higher, but the first rains we get will immediately lower this and other descriptions of horse feed. There has been tome speculation in American imports.

LATER PROM ENGLAND. Tho following is from the A.ge of February 25th. From our Mauritius files we have some Inter intelligence from England, which renders more intelligible the telegram which was despatched f-om the Bank of Australasia in London to the local manager here, dated the 2nd of December, and which we published in our columns on the 14th ult. That telegram was as follows :—" London, 2nd December, 1861.—Probability of warl with Federal States of Amevica. War premium of insurance. Vessels already sailed from Australia, one per cent.; to sail before 31st December, two per cent." The telegrams which we are now in possession of, via Mauritius, are dated respectively the 29th of November and the Ist of' December, and read thus:—"London, 29th No-1 vember. The law officers of the Crown, having1 been consulted, have decided that the act committed by the American captain was a violation of the right of nations and of international law, an insult towards .England, and that satisfaction will be promptly demanded." "London, Ist December, — The Times and the Morning Post admit that probably the Northern States will not yield to the demands of England. If the Federal Government refuses satisfaction, the English Minister will quit Washington. The export of saltpetre has been prohibited in England." It was no doubt these circumstances that induced the despatch of the telegram dated the 2nd of December by the Bank of Australasia, and the missing link in the intelligence thus supplied only makes us still more anxious for definite intelligence of the progress of the events subsequent to that date, as from the tenor of tho foregoing, it is just probable that ere this war may have been declared between Great Britain and the United States.

THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE. The Havre journals state that General "Winfleld Scott, who arrived at that port in the Arago steamer, was, on landing, honored with quite an ovation, improvised by the officers of the American merchantmen lying in the port. On Tuesday, much astonishment -was create • on the Liverpool} Exchange, in consequence of the following announcement being posted in the . news room ; —•' The Bermuda has arrived at Havre with 1780 bales of cotton." This is the same vessel which ran the Savannah blockade [ Borne months ago with a cargo of supplies for the Confederates from Liverpool. The arrivals ■ of the Nashville and the Bermuda show clearly that the blockade is anything but efficient off 1 Savannah, and it was confident^ stated on Tuesday that the Bermuda is not the only vessel which has run the blockade within the last - month. l

MORAKI. (From our own Correspondent.) On His Honor the Superintendent passing through the town of Hampdun in the Moraki District, he received a Deputation consisting of Messrs. Leggatt, Thompson, Spiers, Moorcol, Young, &c., who presented a memorial signed by a considerable number of flockowners and freeholders, pointing out the peculiar disadvantages to which the District was subject from the want of a Jetty in Mornki Bay, and a road connecting the shipping place with the jnain North lino, —both of which disadvantages could be remedied at a cost of only £1,800, and they adverted to the fact that the revenues of the Province had received no less a sum than £10,000 from the sale of land in the District. They adverted also to the enhanced value to future sales from these necessary facilities being accorded, —and especially to the large shipments which would take place from the interior, at this the nearest and best Port.

His Honor having attentively listened to the observations of the Deputation, assured them that the Government were fully alive to the importance of the communication which had been made, and that it would receive, as it deserved, their serious attention. He informed them that on his return from the Qamaru he would n^ake himself personally acquainted with the wants of the D'striet, by investigation on the spot,—itnd suggested that in addition to the memorial which he had received, the District through their representatives should bring the matter before the Provincial Council, and he had no doubt that the interests of the memorialists would receive that consideration which the fine District through which he had passed was entitled-to receive.

Allusion was then made to the difficulty experienced by the freeholder of limited means obtaining land under the present system of dividing the country into large sections' of 80 to 100 acres, instead of 40 or 50 acres, by which their flnp ftgnpulfttral country—well watered and well timbered—was passing beyond the reach of the agricultural settler.

His Honor entirely agreed in the views taken by the Deputation—he had already Riven instructions to the Survey Department to divide the land into smaller sections. He expressed his conviction that the practical working of the present system was utterly subversive of the original intention of affording every facility for the man of limited means obtaining land at a reasonable price, and in small allotments. He adverted to the inevitable tendency of the system to destroy £he attraction of the country to the lahpring man, and the settler pf small rqeans, an 4 assured the Deputation that success could only result from combined action and respectful representation. If n grievance existed, it was a duty they owed to themselves and their families to make it*known, in order that it might be redressed. If they were indifferent, they might not expect an over-zeal from any Government.

His Honor expressed his regret at finding this fine District, so peculiarly adapted for agricultural occupation, passing into private hands, and assured the Deputation that as far as he was personally concerned, ami he thought he spoke Hie opinion f)f the Government also, every possible means ghpjild be adopted for securing thp possession of {igricultiural land to thp ngi-ipiiltiiris't. The Deputation then thanked His Honor for the considerate attention they had received, and retired. '

THE TUUF. The late Coloxel Bobbins. (From Bell's Life in Victoria.) William Pitt Robbins was born in the West of England, we believe in Gloucestershire, in the year 1812, and having gone to India as a cadet, obtained a commission in the 15th Bengal Native Infantry in the year 18SG. During the early years of his life we do not find that he was engaged in any active service, and we are therefore inclined to believe that the pleasures of horseracing, and of the more daring sports of the East filled tip the greater portion of the time of the young soldier. •As a staunch patron of the turf, he occupied the very first rank amongst the Indian sportsmen, and as a matchmaker he seems to have held very " pride of place." Those who knew him in India assert that he never allowed a challenge to pass him, and whether he had a horse " good enough" or not, he was always prepared to take up the gauntlet. The trumpet of war, however, sounded at last, and when the Sikhs broke out in 1845, the pleasures of the turf and of the chase were cheerfully cast aside for the perils of the battle-field. Throughout the entire campaign of the Punjaub, Colonel (then captain) Robbins remained with his regiment, and was present at the battles of Chillianwallah and Goojcrat. The Sikh war having ended, a fewyears' relaxation was enjoyed by our gallant hero, when the Indian mutiny broke out iv 1857. At this time the 15th Bengal Infantry was stationed at Nuserabad, and indications of revolt soon became apparent amongst the troops. On the evening of the 28th May, a servant rushed into the bungalow of one of the lieutenants of the 15th, announcing that the regiment had risen. The officers hastened to the lines, and there found the regiment drawn up in companies, martial array being maintained in mutiny, as it had been in regular drill. The men looked sternly at their officers, and soon worse news arrived. We do not care at present to follow up the particulars of the mutiny at Nuserabad, it will be sufficient for the purposes of this short memoir to state that Major Robbins had to ride for his life, and that the mutineers completely destroyed his racing stud. In 1858 we find him promoted from his majority fo the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, and he was shortly after despatched to Australia by the Indian Government for the purchase of cavalry horses for the Indian army. No sooner had Colonel Kobbins arrived in Aiistralia than he set vigorously to "work to carry out the object of his mission. He appointed buyers of suitable horses in both this colony and New South Wales, and where there was plenty of money there was but little difficulty in obtaining the class of horse suitable to the requirements of the Italian army. It may be true that in many cases much higher prices were paid than was necessary, but despite all that has been said to the contrary, the cavalry authorities were quite satisfied with the selections of their Commissioner. Had they not been so, they would most assuredly have countermanded their order long before a quarter of a million from the Indian coffers had been spent. Finding that in all probability he would be a aojouruer in Australia for a year or two, Colonel Robbins had to look about him for a delassement, and his Indian pastime—horse racing—at once suggested, itself to his mind. He accordingly attended the first sale of the Woodlands yearlings in 1858, and became the owner of Flying Jib and Banjo, for both of which colts he paid a very respectable figure. They had not, however, been in his possession many months, before he sold them to Mr. Lang, who undertook to bring out one of them at the first Spring Meeting following, and to share with " the Colonel" the first stake that the Jib might win. Colonel Robbins was induced to part with his joung ones because he thought it likely that he might be called upon to return to India before the racing campaign commenced. Such, however, was not the case, and when Flying Jib made his debut on the Melbourne racecourse, the Colonel was his most enthusiastic backer. We can call to mind Mr. Lang giving permission for the jockey to be changed at the last moment, "just to save any mistake," and all turfites must remember how delighted Colonel Robbins was at the victory of that rare colt.. At the following meeting in November, he raced the Lord of Clyde and the South Australian mare, Blink Bonny, who, at the previous meeting, had won the Great Metropolitan, after that desperate race with Mariner. But the star of the light bluejacket and white cap had gone down a wee, and neither the mare nor the three-year-old could score a trick, the nearest approach to one being a head between Red Deer and Lord Clyde for the Maiden Plate. At the ensuing February meeting, however, the Colonel was in some form, and, with the addition of Wild Irish Girl to his string, lie did his friends some service, although in the Australian sweepstakes he broke down that game mare Blink Bonny. With Lord of Clyde he won the Maiden Plate ; with Blink Bonny the Great Handicap, after a severe race with The Moor, although she had been previously beaten in the Free Handicap, owing to a bad get away ; and with Wild Irish Girl the Steeplechase after running second to Modesty for the Hurdle Race. For the Turf Club Leger Colonel Robbins and his friends made the Lord of Clyde an immense favorite, although he had opposed to him Brownlock, the champion of his year, and Eed Deer, who liad already conquered his Lordship over the same distance. Heaps of money were laid as between Brownlock and the field by the public, and between Lord of Clyde and thejo field by the gentlemen who laid odds, and verily if in this race the fielders had a throw in, for Brownlock breke down after he had gone a quarter o c a J mile, and Lord of Clyde having tired at a mile, g was collared by the outsider, and beaten all to nothing. When all was over Co:onel Robbins n could scarcely believe his own eyes, and so si " fond " of his colt was he yet, that he backed E him against Red Deer in the T. C. Handicap, first past the post for a good stake. The Leger 31 verdict, however, was not reversed, and the Colo- *- nel again came off second best, As against these P reverses he won the steeplechase with AVild Irish j' Girl, on whom he stood a perisher. At the close g : of the Melbourne season he sold Blink Bonny to r Mr. Rawdoh Greene for the Woodlands Stud, a and Wild Irish Girl became Mr. Warby's for his n breeding establishment at Taminick, whilst the o Lord of Clyde was packed oft to India. t We nextfind the Colonel buying Sailor for the s S"irst Champion Sweepstakes, immediately after a his triumphs over Hometmsh, and, in addition to 5 the New South Welshman, he had Quiz-the-Wind t for the Great Australian Race. Anything that s the Colonel had was sure to be backed ; and all D through the winter of '59 Sailor remained a good s favourite, whilst " Quiz" was kept in the market t by the friends of the stable. But the St. Kilda t division was -a.ll but in the grand inter-colonial contest, and indeed a series of reverses attended c the stable all through that famous Jockey (Hub t gathering which followed it. By the time the? ■Turf Club meeting came round, the : Colonel's team was separated, whilst lie himself remained B A quiet spectator to the close of the season.. The j famous Tarras controversy occurred about this o time, and although the ill-natured did not scruple fi to assign all sorts of dishonourable motives to the stewards of the Turf Club, amongst whom was a jreat friend of Colonel Robbins, for their decision on,that knotty point, it was afterwards declared a by the great Solon of the Turf, Admiral RdUs, ° that they had given a verdict according to strict a racing law. By the following June mail Lieut.- Cl Colonel Robbins returned to India, to find himself promoted to the rank of full Colonel ; but a feeling that the excessive heat of India was play- b ing havoc with his constitution, he re-visited Melbourne in'6l, on sick leave, and lost but little time.in returning to his old love, the turf. He b at once became the possessor of Kyogle, and, si moreover, sent a consignment of blood horses to g India—a speculation, which it is to be regretted, resulted in a complete loss, as the ship which con- t lamed the horses was totally, wrecked. At the '' Ran'dwick September meeting Colonel Robbins' iuck seemed to have taken a turn, for with £ Kyogle he won the Derby and the Maiden Plate, S1 and the colt was forthwith shipped for Melbourne, 0 en route for Tasmania, where he was engaged tl with Talleyrand in the Champion Sweepstakes, tl The raking son of William Tell and old Cassan- ti drawas not able to come to the post; and here si ended our gallant Colonel's career as a thoroughly sl honourable and most enthusiastic sportsman. Soon after the Colonel's return from Sydney with Kyogle he began to ail, and before the time tr ihe Champion Race came round he was unable to ci

leave hia room,—a sore disappointment, as he yearned to see his colt win the great Tasmanian prize. "From that time to yesterday week the worth}- Colonel hecanie worse and worse ; on the morning of the Friday he seemed to rally somewhat, but the temporary convalescence was but us a flicker of a candle, and towards noon he breathed his last, the cause of death being disease of the liver. His remains were conveyed to their iinal resting' place in the Melbourne Cemetery, close to the grave of the late Lieut.-Col. Neill, on Monday last. The cortege left his late residence at St. Kilda, at ten o'clock, and proceeded to the new military barracks, where it was received byj a detachment of the Royal Artillery, and a company of the 40th Regiment. At Prince's Bi-idge the Ist Victoria Volunteer Cavalry was drawn up, waiting to join the procession, which was subsequently augmented by the band of the Collingwood Rifles. A large number of persons assembled in Swanston street to witness the funeral, which passed through Melbourne about half past eleven o'clock. Following the gun carriage, on which were placed, in addition to the coffin, the sword and hat of the deceased, were his charger, and the carriage of Sir Henry Barkly, whilst amongst others present were Major General Sir Thomas Pratt, Colonel Anderson, Colonel Ross, Major Dickson, Colonel Carey, Captain Bancroft, Drs Ford and Campbell, and the Rev. S. Lloyd Chase, who performed the funeral service. Colonel Robbins leaves as his executors his brother, Percy Bobbins (to whom he has willed all his effects), and Messrs Burstall and James Little, who is expected by the next mail. No man who ever entered into the sports and pastimes of this colony was more universally beloved than was the gallant hero, whose life we have so imperfectly sketched ; and we fear that we may long look for a sportsman, whose death is so deeply deplored as is that ot the late Colonel William Pitt Robbins.

th Wheat a Weed. —It has long been suspected that ccc cereal grains are but cultivated examples of wild b real grasses—that they were not created as corn. tut that they have been improved by culture into heir present condition. This supposition was con-, firmed by M. Fabre, of Agde, in the South of France, who, in 1838, sowed some grains of the ' .ffigifops ovata,' a common cere.il grass, and by successive sowings in garden soil, produced in 1846, crops of real wheat as fine as any to be found in the neighbourhood. This experiment is now being carried on by the Professor of Geology and Botany iv the Royal Agricultural College, and the grass is gradually undergoing the tame transformation into the true cereal grain.— Ones a Week.

Induction op tiie Rev. William M'lntyre.— The Presbytery of Sydney has appointed Thursday, the 20th instant, for the induction of the ' liev. W. M'lntyre, of Maitland, to St. George's Free Church, Sydney. The Itev. .Tiunes Cameron, of Penrith, will preach and preside on the occasion.— Maitland JEnsic/n.

leiby the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated nifi'om the specific purposes to which they shall have ie jbeen severally dedicated, except under the provision's ie of an Act of' the General Assembly, entituled the , " Public Reserves Act, 1854;" aud a full and cbm- ~~ piete description of" every such reserve and of the purposes to which it shall have been dedicated shall, ie as soon as possible after it shall have been made,. be ie published in the Government Guze.tte of the Province, ir and set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land f, Office. Provided that the Superintendent may,"if n the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily :e reserve land for such purposes until the next session i e of such Council. 20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and y foot-paths, shall be made by the Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the authenticated maps in the > c Land Office. The Superintendent and the Provincial n Council may by Ordinance alter the line of any such J- highways, bridle-paths, and foot-patlis, and dispose of ?- the land theretofore used for the same. 3- 21. The Superintendent may temporarily reserve 1 any land for the preservation or sale, of the timber it thereon; but such land may at any time cease to be * n so reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial Council. 22. The Superintendent may, upon the rccomr' mendation of the Provincial Council, by proclamation J* in the Government Gazette, reserve from.the operair tion of these reputations any tract of country in which s, the precious metals may be found to exist: and the t, land within such tract of country shall be disposed of fl according to regulations hereafter to be issued and 3 ] published in that behalf; in the same manner y and under the same authority as these present regulations >' VI. —TOWN LANDS. '" 23. The sites of towns shall be determined by the T Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the y Provincial Council, and shall be notified by proclai- mation in the Government Gazette of the Province. y 24. Town Lands shall be sold by public auction, in r sections, the size and upset price of which shall be , s determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; and having been so determined, for each town severally, shall not again be altered. 25. The time and place of every auction sale shall ■* be fixed by the Superintendent, and shall be notified • in the Government Gazette, and one or more news- '• papers of the Province, at least thirty days before 0 *ueh sale shall take place. '- 26. No such notification of any sale of town lands '■> .shall be published until a map ot the town, signed by IS the Chiet Surveyor, shall have been laid open for '- public inspection In the Land Office; and such map d shall set forth, accurately delineated, all the town '• sections numbered consecutively, so far as laid out, - showing the sections to be submitted for sale, and the - public reserves in connection with them. c 27. Town sections may be put up to auction, either '•> by order of the Superintendent, or upon the application of some person who shall, at the time of making - such application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset c price with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board. '. Such deposits shall, if no advance on the upset price !, oe made, be considered as the deposit upon the sale [1 at such public auction. i- 28. It any section shall be purchased by other than the original applicant, the deposit money shall be forthwith returned on demand. - 29. Ten days at least before any such auction sale, a list of all the sections about to be offered for sale shall be published in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province. 30. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the Commissioners in open court as hereinbefore provided. <T 31. The person who shall be declared the highest bider at such auction shall immediately pay a deposit of ten per cent, of the purchase money to the Treasuror, and in default thereof, the section shall be again immediately put up to auction. paid to the Treasurer in full, within one week after '- 32. Tlip remainder of the purchase money shal Hip ;, the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the pur if chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and also al right or title to the land; and the section may be c sold to any person applying for the same for the price :at which it was knocked down at the auction; and, 0 if not so sold, the section may be again put up to auction at any future sale. v 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in full, n the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a c " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in c Schedule A to the Waste Lands Regulations, and such License shall be restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. j VII. —RURAL LAND. 3-1. All lands not included in any of the foregoing c regulations shall he open for sale as rural land, at an c uniform nrice of forty shillings per acre. 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of 1 Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty acres; but any section so limited by frontage lines or 1 private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may 1 be sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of 1 sale, and payment of purchase money to be as nearly s as may be in accordance with the regulations horein 1 contained applicable to the sale of Town Land. Proi vided, nevertheless, that if any section so limited i shall be included in a Pasturage License with Pre--1 emptive Right, the holder of such License shall be s entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Eight under these Regulations unon payment of the sum of forty i pounds for such section. 36, Every section of rural land shall be in one • block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a recti angular form, and if bounded by a frontage line ,slmll be of a depth of half a mile (or 40 chains) from such ; frontage. t Note.—A. frontage line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a road, river ; or public reserve, or any 1 stream or watercourse which shall have been declared } by notification in the Government Gazette to constitute a frontage for the purpose of selection. i 37. Whore, from the frontage not being a straight ; line or from the interference of other frontage lines, i natural features, or the boundaries of private lauds, the above rules in respect of form cannot be accurately ■ observed, the form of the section shall be determined ■as nearly in accordance with these rules as, iv the > judgment of the Board, circumstances will admit. I 38, In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded Iby a frontage line, alj the sides may be equal, but one • side may not be less tljan oue-tl;ir<l of the other; and , such section shall not bo less than half a mile distant , from a frontage line. I 39. Auy person possessing a section of land may at ■ 'any time select another adjacent thereto, of such , .form that the two together, being considered as one j!section, shall be in the form required for a single section under the foi-egoiua: rules. ' 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase 1 money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commisi sioner.s a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth ijin the Sdiedule II hereunto annexed; and as soon i j thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be ii laid off by a Government Surveyor, as nearly in ac- ■ jcordance with the description given by the p^rehaseri ijin his application as these regulations will admit; f 1 provided that whenever the lands selected lie without ' 1 the surveyed districts, the expense of the survey and f 3 of connecting such survey with the existing surveys shall be borne by the purchaser, who shall at the time of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost n of such survej-s with the Treasurer of the Waste ' Lands Board, which shall be made as soon as practicable, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Provided n always, that should any section when surveyed prove c to differ in any respect from that intended by the ° nurchasep, t^e Government will not be responsible F for any lo3s or inconvenience which the purchaser ' may experience, nor will the purchase money be re- . turned. Provided also, that if the Surveyor shall find that the whole extent of land in the. selected l locality falls short of the quantity paid for by the l purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the r purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be ? conveyed. The "License to Occupy" shall, in any J such case, be amended by the Commissioners, in ac- .' cordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the ' Crown Grant shall be made out in accordance c therewith; and the "License" shall be returned to . the Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be " issued. ? 41. Any person making a ditelj and bank fence to ! lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Ci'own.may take ! out of such lands half the land required for thn ditch r and bank: provided that no ditch or bank shall be t more than six feet in width. £ VIII. —COMPENSATION LANDS. f 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons « should be enabled to receive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lands taken for roads or for a other public purposes; if any person shall be entitled ii to receive any compensation in respect of any land (1 which shall have been taken for the purposes of a road or of any other public work, or in respect of nny n damages done to his property by the taking of such a land for such purposes, such person shall, unon appli- j( cation to the Waste Lands Board, he entitled to a n grant of rural land in such situation as he shall select, ii subject to the conditions as to form aud frontage in 0 these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre 5 for every two pounds sterling of the amount of com- p pensation which the applicant shall b,e entitled to s! receive in respect of the land taken for such'purposcs a or"in respect of such damage as aforesaid. . 0: 43. It any person shall contract with the Superin- n tendent to make and. complete, within a given time, f< any public road, bridge, or drain, or any part of any ai such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security c as the Superintendent may require for the due completion of such contract, and shall select such portion t< of rural land as he shall be wiling to accept by way a of payment or compensation, or by way of part pay- s; ment or compensation for such work; ij; shall be law- si ful for the Superintendent to reserve such portion o k I

I land from public sale for such given time but no ; longer; and such person shall, on the completion ol a such contract, be entitled to a free grant of such lan 1, > or so much thereof as the Board shall adjudge, nol . exceeding one acre for.every two pounds sterling ; which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste ; Lands Board to be the bund fide value of the work so ; done by such pei^on according' to the prices for work . and materials at the time of performing such contract 1 current in the district. f Every such reservation of land from public sale r shall be published in the Government Gazette of the i Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulations.' 1 No such reservation shall continue in force for a I longer period than twelve calendar montlis from the ; date on which it shall have been made. 1 No land included in a Pasturage License with Prei emptive Right shall, as against the holder of such f Pre-emptive Right, be so reserved or granted until he shall have been allowed the option of purchasing 3 such land in the manner prescribed in clauses 64 ana r 66 to these Regulations. 3 No greater amount of land than 250 acres shall I under the provisions of this clause be reserved or granted to any person under any such contract, un- - less in payment of work for which a vote has been i passed by the Provincial Council. No greater amount of land than 1000 acres in the i aggregate shall, in any one year, be reserved or 3 granted under the provisions of this clause, without f the special sanction of the Provincial Council. 1 Provided always that every parcel of land so granted p shall be subjected to the same conditions as to form t and frontage as any rural land sold under these Regulations ; provided also that no application for less than 20 acres shall be received under tliis clause, but ; that where any amount of compensation awarded by ; the Board shall he of less extent than 20 acres of land, . the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase i of rural lands under these Regulations. j IX. —NAVAL AND MILITARY BOUNTIES. 1 44. Whereas the Superintendent and the Provincial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury ' are desirous to aid in making provision for the main- ' tenance of such persons of Her Majesty's land and ■ sea forces as may be discharged as unfit for further ' service in consequence of wounds or loss of health incurred in the present war with Russia, and also for 1 the maintenance of the widows of those who,may be ' killed in such war:— Any such person or widow shall, upon application > to the Waste Lands Board, and upon the production 1 of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities as i to such discharge or death, be entitled to receive a ! free grant not exceeding 30 acres of the Waste Lands within this Province, subject to the conditions as to : form and frontage contained in these Regulations; ■ provided always that such application shall be made > to the "Waste Lands Board by such person or widow fc in person within tlu-ee years after such discharge or ; death. 3 X. —PASTURAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public puri poses as herein provided, the Waste Lands may be } occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holding licenses from the Waste Lands Board, to occupy the , same. j 4G. Any person applying for a pasturage license ' sliall state to the Commissioners what are the boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the 5 number and description of the stock which he pos- ' scsses, or will undertake to place upon the run within twelve months from the date of the license. t 47. The extent of run allowed to each applicant _ shall he at the rate of 120 acres to every head of great ' cattle, and 20 acres to every head of small cattle. The words " great cattle" shall be construed to mean ho:-ned cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male and fe- , male, with their offspring above six months of age; r and the words "small cattle" shall be construed tn j mean sheep, male and female, with their weaned off- , spring. \ 48. Every pasturage rim shall be in one block, and, ' as far as circumstances will admit, of a rcctaugulai form: the frontage, under ordinary circumstances, shall not be gTeater than one-half the depth. '49. The fee to be .paid for the license shall he at the following rates: —For every run containing less than 1000 acres, twenty-shillings for every hundred acres; for every run containing 1000 acres, and not less than 5000 aciss, two-pence per acre for the first thousand and one penny per acre for every acre in addition. For pvpi-v rim rontaminc 5000 wres or unwards. one farthing per acre for the first and second years, one half-penny per acre for the third and fourth yeans, three-farthings per acre for the fifth and every subsequent year; provided that the first year shall be taken to be the time elapsing from the date of the original license to the first day of May next following. 50. No pasturage license shall be granted for a less annual fee than £2 10s. 51. The fee shall,be paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Land Board every year, in advance; for the first year on the issue of the license, and for the second and every subsequent year on any sitting day of the Board, between the 20th day of April and the "first day of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed by payment of the required fee, on or before the first day of May, shall, unless good cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered as abandoned. 52. Every pasturage license shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer shall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being duly given to the Waste Lands Board, and not before. A pasturage license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right pf pasturage over the land specified therein upon the terras above stated. Such license shall be renewed by endorsement from year to year, until the land specified therein shall he purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations j and the fee to be paid in respect of such license shall not bo altered until the Ist May, 1870. Such license shall give no right to the soil or to the timber, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right of way shall be allowed through all pasturage runs. 53. If at any time during the first four years after the issue of the first license the quantity of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during- the next three years less than twice that amount, or during any subsequent period less than three times that amount, the Waste Lands Board may declare the whole or a portion of such run to. lje forfeited; provided always that with regard to runs granted prior to the issue of these Regulations such first period of four years shall commence from the date on which these Regulations shall come into operation : provided that one or more runs held by the same individual or firm may for the purposes of this clause be considered as one run. 54. In any case in which a runholder can prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that he is precluded by arrangements entered into previous to the passing of these regulations from actually, for a given period, placing his stock'on his <?\y# run, it shall be sufficient if he prove to the satisfaction pf the Board that he jra'ssesses within the Province the requisite amount of stock, and will undertake to place the same n the run at the expiration of such peoiod. 55. Every holder of a license shall, at any time, upon a written order from the Waste Lands Board to that effect, make a true und complete return of all the stock on his run; and if ho shall wilfully and knowingly make any fal=e return, the Waste Lands Board shall immediately declare his license to be forfeited. 56. Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as above provided, shall be put up by tlip Waste Lant!s Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the (Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of'the Province. A license granted after forfeiture shall be deemed to be an original license. Upon appeal from any person whose run has been forfeited, within 60 days" from the date of such forfeiture, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve or tuspend such forfeiture either wholly or in part. 57. Every person taking out a lirensc for a run which is not stocked will be required to deposit with the Treasurer the sum often shillings for every hundred acres included in the license, which will be returned without interest as soon .is he sliall have fulfilled the conditions ill resnect to stocking the run within the prescribed period ; but if sur.h conditions be not fulfilled such deposits sliq.ll be forfeited. 58. The above rules in respect to stocking a run, and to the lodgment of deposit money with the Treasurer, shall not apply to runs containing less than 5000 acres. 59. Every holder of a licenso may be required at any time to pay for the actual cost of the survey oi his run at a rate not oxeeodingSOs. for every thousand acres. CO. Every holder of a pasturage 'iconic sliall, upon nppHcntion to the Waste Lands" Board, be entitled to a pre-emptive right over portions of his run, as follows :—For a run of not less han 1.000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land comprising and circumjacent to his homestead to the extent of 5 per cent of the acreage of the run. For a run of 5,000 acres and upwards, over 250 acres of land comprising and circumjacent to his homestead or principal station. And for all runs, over all lands occupied by any buildings, enclosures, plantations, cultivations, ov any such other improvements as shall in the judgment of the Waste Lands Board l>e deemed sufficient1 for the purposes of this clause, together with1 fifty acres comprising and circumjacent to the lands so occupied or improved. 01. The License? shall at the time of his application to the Board give a sufficient description of the lands over which he claims such pre-emptive right, to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor. And the same shall be marked off on the authenticated Maps in the Land Office.

02. The lands Included in such pre-emptive right may be of such form as ths applicant shall choose ; but any land purchased by him in the exercise of such right sliall be subject to the regulations as to form and frontage herein contained. G3. The Waste Lands Board sliall not receive nor entertain any application to purchase, from any parson oth<;r than the runholder, the aforesaid block around the homestead or principal station which does not include the whole of such block. 6i. The right of pre-emption hereby given shall be exercised within due week tor all lands within twenty miles of the Land Office, at Christehurch; and within one month for all lands at a greater distance therefrom'} such time being reckoned from the date of service of a written notice from the Waste Lands Board, setting forth a copy of the application for any of the lands included in the pre-emptive rig-ht. Such notice may be served either personally on the ruuholder, or by' leaving the same at his last-known place of abode within the Province, or at the principal homestead or station on the run. 65. The applicant for any rural land included in any pre-emptive right shall deposit with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. per acre of the purchase money, and the remainder he shall pay within one week from the date of his application being granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, however, shall be immediately returned on demand, if the holder of the pre-emptive rig-ht sliall give notice of lus intention to purchase any portion of the land applied for, and pay the requisite deposit. 66. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied for, lie shall forthwith pay to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre of the purchase money of such portion; and, if he shall not within six weeks thereafter have paid the remainder of the purchase money, he sliall forfeit, such deposit, together with all light or title to the land. If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause 60 of the Waste Lands Regulations shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land applied for, such portion shall from and immediately after such neglect or refusal be released from nil right of pre-emption and open to purchase on the terms of these Regulations, as if the same had not been included in any pre-emptive right. 67. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right in connection with purchased lands, whether under the Canterbury Association or the Ci'own, shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be pasturage licenses over the lands included therein, upon the terms of these Regulations, with a preemptive right over all such land, to be exercised subect to these Regulations as regards notice of application, payment of deposit, purchase money, price of land, and size and shape of blocks. If the land covered by such pre-emptive right shall he included within the limits of a run held by license under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof in paying rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid by him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emp-tive right. 68. Holders of pasturage licenses * without preemptive right shall be entitfed to hold such licenses or to have them renewed upon the terms of their contract with the Canterbury Association or the Crown, as the case may be; but if any person holding a license under the Canterbury Association or the Crown shall voluntarily resign the same, he sliall be entitled to receive a license under these Regulations, and shall from the date of such exchange hold his run at the rate and on the conditions specified in these Regulations. 69. If any person exchanging lus.license sliall for any period included in the new license have paid rent at a higher rate than would be payable under such license, such overpayment shall be adjusted at the next payment of rent. 70. In the event of improvements having been effected by the licensee of a run on any land which shall be reserved by the General Government or by the Provincial Government under these Regulations, the licenseee shall receive payment of the value of such improvements, such value to be decided by arbitration under direction of the Waste Lands Board, and to be paid by the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board out of the land fund. 71. All payments on account of pasturage runs shall in future be made on or before the first day oi May, in accordance with clause 51, at the Land Office, at Cliristchurch, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Treasurer to receive the same. 72 All payments to be made on account of pasturage runs before the first day of May next ensuing sliall be made for the portion of the year only which shall elapse between such day of payment and the said first day of May. 73. In calculating the amount of the license fee and the stock required to be on the run, the year commencing on the said first day of May shall be deemed to be the same year as that for which sucii part payment shall have been made. 74. Notwithstanding anything contained in these egulationSj it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon rim recommendation oi the Suneihitpndent an/I Provincial Counil, at any time, and from time to time, be proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province, to reserve for the purposes hereinafter mentioned any lands within the Province, adjacent to or in the neighbourhood of any town, now or which may hereafter bo formed, and to declare that on and from a day to be named in such proclamation all depasturing licenses issued under these regulations, in respect of such reserved lauds, shall cease and be of no effect; on and from which day, all such licenses sliall, ns respects such lands, cease and be of no effect accordingly. And it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, hereafter, by regulations to be issued in that behalf, according to the provisions of the Waste Lands Act, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, to regulate the occupation "pf the Waste Lands of the Grown, within such reserved districts. TIItfBISU. 75. If any tract of land shall have boon reserved for the sale of the timber thereon, such timber may be sold by public auction at an upset price and subject to conditions to be fixed by the Superintendent, and the purchaser shall airree to reraovo the same within a certain time ; and all the timber not removed within such time may be again put up to public auction. 76. No person shall, without a license, cut. or remove any timber from any Waste Lands of the Crown (except timber which-he shall have purchased under the last clause); and any persons so cutting or removing timber shall be liable to pay the cost of such license fijr qne year together with the costs of recovering the amount of theV^e. 77. Every license for cutting or removing timber shall be issued for one month, or for one year, at the request of the person applying for the same; and a fee of 10s. shall be paid upon every monthly license, and of £0 upon every yearly license. 78. A license shall entitle no one but the person named therein to cut down standing timber, but it will authorise him to employ any number of persons, during the term of the license, to saw, split, or remove the timber so cut; and such license shall not be Iransflbralile." 79. A license to cut timber shall extend Qnty tp the district named therein, ; 80. If any person duly licensed shall have established a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person shnll cut timber within 50 yards of such pit without consent of the person first occupying such saw-pit; provided that it the person establishing such pit shall not use the same, aud shall not cut timber within such distance as aforesaid from the pit for 28 consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any other holder of a license to enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though such pit had not been established. 81. If any person shall, for the purpose of removing thither-, have, giade a road upon land being the Waste Lands of the Crown arid nbt being a highway, it shall not be lawful for any otlicr'person to tise the s'am6 without the permission of the person making the same first obtained; provided that if such road shall not be used at any time for 90 consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any holder of a license at any time therealter to use the same. 82. If any person holding a timber license shall be proved before the Waste Lands Board .to have offended against any regulations herein contained respecting timber, or to have wilfully or negligently inured pr destroyed by fire or otherwise any timber belonging- to. the Grown, suph license shall be, and shall beimmediateiy'declafed tip b> fqrfeitpYT,' and'if sljall be at the discretion pftlie Board to refuse to issue another timber license to the same person, j

SCHEDULES, Schedule A. Province ") ■ of I Canterbury. ) LICENSE TO OCCUPY TOWN LANDS. Whereas of hath been duly declared the purchaser for the sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, of the sectiou of the Waste Lands of the Crown hereinafter described, and hath this day paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lauds Board of the Province of Canterbury, the said sum of':" ' "pounds. "" shillings, nnd pence, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, NOW KNOW ALL. MEN AND THESE presents witness, that We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the said Waste Lands Board, do hereby authorise and empower the said his heirs or assigns, nt any time after the date hereof, to enter upon all that section of land;

tuatccl in street, in the town of marked, No. in.the authenticated map of the said town in the Crown Lands Office and containingacres, or therealwuts, bsiua the section of and so purchased as aforesaid, and to hold and enjoy the same for his and their absolute ass and benefi*.' Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board held at on the day ot 18

Schedule B. Province ~i of [ Canterbury. ) LICKNSiS TO OCCUPY RURAL LAND^ Wbekbas of lmth been duly declared the purchaser for the sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, of the section of the Waste Lands of the Crown hereinafter described, anil hath this day paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lauds Board of the Province of Canterbury, tiie said sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, NOW KNOW ALL MEN A.ND THESE presents witness, that We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the said Waste Lands Board, do hereby authorise and empower the said his heirs or assigns, at any time after the date hereof, to enter upon all that section of land situate and bounded as hereinafter described, that is to say ; and to hold and to enjoy the same for Jus and their alKolute use and benefit, subject nevertheless to the Kegulations now in force ibr the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Canterbury. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at on the day of 18

Schedule C. Province ) of \ Canterbury. J LICENSE TO DEPASTURE STOCK. Whereas of hath been duly declared to be entitled to a license to depasture stock upon the Waste Lands of the Crown witliin the Province of Canterbury, upon the terms and upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned: Now therefore We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the Waste Lands Board to the said Province, do hereby grant to the said the exclusive license,_ from and after the date hereof, until the first day of May next, to depasture stock upon the land situate and bounded as hereinafter described, that is to say— and containing acres or thereabouts. Subject nevertheless to all the provisions and conditions contained in the Waste Lands Regulations now in force within the Province of Canterbury. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at on the day of 18

ENDOnSEMENT. I, the within-named for valuable consideration to me paid by of do hereby transfer to the said the witliin written Pasturage License, and all my estate and interest therein. Witness my hand this day ot 18 Witness APPENDIX I. Clauses 35 and 43, which were repealed by the Waste Lands Regulations Amendment Ordinance, Sess. VII., No. 2, 1856, originally ■ stood asfolloios: — 35. No section of rural land shall be sold containing less than twenty acres ; provided that any section so limited by frontage lines or private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may be sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillings uer acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode ot sale and payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may be in accordance with the regulations herein contained, applicable to the sale of Town Land, 43. If any person shall at any time have made and completed at his own cost any public road or bridge or any public main drain, or any part of such road, bridge, or drain, such person shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a free grant of rural land in such situation as he shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to such an extent as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every four pounds sterling which he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that he shall have actually expended in the construction of such road, bridge, or drain. Prov!^:! always that it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the" Board that the money so expended by the applicant lins been beneficially expended for he use and advantage of the public. Provided also hat no application tor less than twenty acres shall be received under this clause, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the Board shall be of a less amount than twenty acres of laud, tho party entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants to purchase rural lands under these regulations. Claused 67 and 08, which were repealed by proclamation of the Governor, dated lith August, 1856, ptwlished in the Provincial Government Gazette, Vol. 111., No. 17, p. 63, 4th September, 1856, originally stood as follows :— 67. Holders of pasturage licenses with pre-emptive right in connection with purchased lands, whether under the Canterbury Association or the Ci'own, shall be entitled to claim pasturage licenses over tho lands included therein u'pqii the terms of those segiilatipns/vfi'th a prc-emptiVo' right qyei: such land, iq be exercised subject to, these regulations as regilrds notice of application, payment of depqsit and p'ur^ chase money, price of land, and size and 'shape of blocks. If the land covered hy suah pre-emptive right shall be included witliin the limits of a run hold by license under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof, on paying rent for the same, may take credit for the amount paid by him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emptive right. GB. Nothing in these Regulations shall be interpreted to alfeet the legal rights or equitable contracts made by the Canterbury Association or the Government with holders of the pasturage licenses; but if any person holding a license under the Canterbury Assoqiation or the Government, shall voluntarily resign the'same to-the Government, he shall be entitled to receive a license under these Regulation^ and shall from the date of such exchange hold his ruil at the rate and on the conditions specified in these Regulations. APPENDIX 11. Clauses Nos. 33, 51, 52, 65, 66, and 71, which were repealed by the " Haste Lands Regulation Amendment Ordinance, Sess. IX., No. 1," originally stood as folloios: — 33. Immediately on tne payment of the purchase money in. full! the purchaser shall receive frpm tho Commissioners a >' License to. Occupy/Mi} tljfi'foMft set forth in the Schedule A hereto annexed, winch ha shall return again to tho Commissioners when ho shall receive the Crown Grant of the Land. Such "License to "Occupy" shall be transferable by endorsement, in the form set forth in the Schedule. 51. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer thea Waste Lands Board every year, in advance; for the first year on the issue of the License, and for the second and every subsequent year on the first day of May; and every pasturage license not renewed by payment of the required fee on the first day of May shall, unless good cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered'as bandfooiied. ' 52. Every pasturage license shall be jnj.the fprm set forth in the Schedule C hereto annexed, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in the Schedule; and shall entitle the holder to (he exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified ■ therein, upon the terms above stated. It is intended that such license shall be renewable from year to year until the land specified therein shall be purchased, granted, or reserved, under these Regulations; and, i? so renewed, the fee to be paid in respect of such licenses shall not be altered until the first of May, 1870. Silo]} ljpense shall give no right to the soil or to the timber, and shall' immediately deter.mine :q\>eij any land which may be purchased, granted, or re^ served under these Regulations. A' reasonable right of way shall be allqwed tlirqugb all pasturage runs, 65. vThe applicant for any rural ltmd included in any pre-emptive right shall deposit with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. per acre of the purchase money, and the remainder he shall pay witliin one week from the date of his application being granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, howe%rer, shall be immediately returned on demand, if the holder of the pre-emptive right shall purchase any portion of the land applied for. ' - 66. If the holder of the pre-ep-ptive right decide npon purchasing any portion ,t land applied for, iie shall forthwith pay to the ensurer. of the Waste Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre of the purchase money of such portion; and if he shall not within six weeks thereafter haye paid the remainder of the purchase money, he 'sTiaH'fbrfeit such" deposit together with all right or title to the land.' '■ ■■•■"'■ • . i v 71. All payments on account of pasturage runs shall in future he made on the first day of May, at the Land Office, at Chvistchurch, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Treasurer 0 receive the same.

DISARMAMENT. ; Tlie Fa trie conluins an article undur the head-j ing of Vliujjitssibilite dun Dcsarmemeut, which is calculated to create a sensation. It begins by setting forth that the perusal of M. Fould's manifesto suggested to some people the idea that thej test way of eileeting' a real and imnieilinte economy in the expenditure was the disarmament Of the country. After some rery obvioiu remivrlcs on the expense of an armed pence, we are then told that— " For a country like ours a disarmament is of far greater import thnn an administrative economy ; it is essentially a political measure. on which our influence in the world depends, and -which is connected with the peculiar international condition of the gveiit European powers. However heavy this burden imposed on the treasury by the present state of things, illusion on a such a subject would be still more dangerous thnn reality. Were it to be entertained as a hope by the public relying on the language of certain papers, it would ere long lead to a deception. " France, who is able to satisfy the legitimate requirements of her glory and her rank, does not rcquire,to have the sacrifices requisite for the maintenance of her greatness concealed from her ; she lias always accepted and fulfilled them." The article then proceeds to say that France could not disarm without coming to an understanding with the other powers to do likewise, and that among the great European states, some amunwilling whilst others are unable to disarm. Austria (the Palric proceeds to state) is not in a position to disarm ; " the eve of the disarmament would be the eve of the dissolution of the empire." It then proceeds to show that Italy can no more disarm than Austria. Russia is compelled to keep up a large and efficient army by the state of affairs in Poland. The paper of M. de la Gueronniere, after thus disposing of Aussrir, Russia, and Italy, turns to Prussia and England : — " Prussia, whose vacillating policy is solicited bT Germanic aspirations, far from giving up her military apparatus, is now abandoning the defensive organization of her forces, to resume the traditions left her by the great Frederick, and use them as fresh elements of supremacy in Germany and influence in Europe. Can any one suppose, moreover, that England, the only European power which her position protects against the anxiety inspired to other states by their territorial conditions, is willing to consent to suspend her armaments, to stop the works going on in her dockyards and arsenals ? Can any one suppose that she will cease to surround her coasts with that girdle of iron, behind which he enemies accuse her of seeking impunity for her political ambition? Is she disposed to dismiss her volunteers, whose organisation leaves her land and sea forces always at liberty? Is it to be supposed that the ministry which has retained* by spreading alarm in Parliament and throughout the country, a portion of its falling popularity, will ever so far humiliate itself as to confess that these manifestations of patriotism were only called forth by the phantom of fear? "Neither Austria, Russia, Prussia, England, nor Italy .are ready to disarm, and it is in these circumstances, when so many formidable problems are agitated, which the second empire has not called into existence, but anxiously seeks to solve, that France is recommended to break the victorious sword of Magenta and Solferino. Would it be good policy—would it be national ? It would not be the disarmament of the government, but the abdication of France. " Such a measure would not consolidate the peace of Europe, it would everywhere raise the hopes of reaction ;it would compromise for ever the laborious work of the second empire. France •would not only behold her prestige diminished, she would lose in public opinion the advantages of our late campaigns, and desert the cause of right and justice, which her policy now upholds in the councils of the powers, after having caused it to triumph in the field,"

THE ZAMBESI EXPEDITION AND MISSION,

(From the Qraliam's Town Journal, 0ct22.,) H.M. stenmer, "Sidon" arrived in Simon's Bay on Monday week from. .Quillimaino, and has brought some further news concerning the Zambesi oxpedition "captain Craufnrd, of the " Sidon," !n a letter to the Bishop of Cape Town, states that the Rev Mr. Burrup had written on the 20th September, reporting that lie and his party were well, and hoped in a fortnight to start up the River to join the heart garters of the mission. Mr Burrup adds that he is accompanied by a Maj or Tito, who volunteers to be their Champion as far as teta, and they are residing at present with the Major at QuiUimainc. Sir. Rurrup says also that the news of Bishop McKenzie and party is good ; they were well, and that Dr. Livingston had purchased some land for the mission from an independent chief, at a place by the Maysinhlaa Mountain, called Chibisi, below the cataracts, Mr. Burrup, however, seems to think this requires confirmation. The " Pioneer" is reported to.be firmly _ aground and between two rocks or large stone 3 ; but It "is fully expected she will be got afloat shortly as the river becomes full. Dr. Livingstone makes excursions from her into the country for some days; and it is ■probable he was absent on one of these when the " Sidon" called at the Kongone (mouth of the Zambesi} on the 22iul September, in the hope of hearing something further. Captain Crauford wrote a .few lines to the Doctor, offering coals and any assistance within the means of the " Sidon" ; but unfortunately the officer sent to communicate with him waa told that the Doctor had gone some distance into the interior and would not be looked for at the Kon^one until'the end of December. The Lord Bishop of Cape Towu, from whom we have received the abqve information, has'given the following letter, received fiv the '■ Sidon," for publication :— py ™« i. >~Q uillimaine, September 11, 1861. '■'■ My dear Lord,—We arrived here quite safely on Monday last, the 7th, having started from Mozaiur biaue on the Sunday previous in a schooner of Mr. Soare whose Christian kindness, and hospitality we ha/1 so fully'experienced while at Mozambique. " He cave lisa house rent frea. He entertained iv at.his table daily. He provided us with tjpythirip that we wanted ; and when we were sick he himself njiniato'red to our ailments ami 'visited us.' WJien we ■wanted conveyance to Quillimaine lie insisted on our taking passage free of expense on board his own tradin" schooner, the Uagia, and sent provisions on Voard for us there. For all thes« things he would re , ceive no other return than our wannest thanks. 1 ■wrote to Mr. Strong, and begged him to forward, U approved l>y the Committee, two pairs of strong hoots like our strongest, which he admired much, and expressed himself anxious to have some like them. Whether, and what other and more valuable acknowledgment should be made of such conduct, remains notfor me to dictate ; but I may be allowed, perhaps, to urge most fervently that some valuable, and appreciable acknowledgment should be made by our Committee. ' . . ~ , , , " "We are now experiencing similar and equal attentions from a former of Tette, Major Tito Ajrnstklo Licard who is a friend of Livingstone, and befriended him as the pood Samaritan. He has been most, kind tqusqn board. He Ims given us quarters in his h l6u^e'her.e at Quiilininine. He puts everything at our disposal, and befriends us in every way that is possible. He is poing up to Tette, and he has offered to take us with him up the river in his own boat. I ■shall have the pleasure I hope at some future time of civinc you particulars.. We received, besides every possible attention and kindness from the Governor nnd people of Mozambique. They allowed ourhiftiratre to £<J through the Custom House free of duty. We are receiving the same here at Qiiillimaine. We have paid no dues nor expenses of any kind. "I am glad to say we are rJI in perfect health, and are fortunate in teing here at this the best season of the year, both for residence and for going up the river. "We expect to go up the river in about a fortnight Major Tito has so much preparation to make. We'have good news of the'party. ' It'seems pretty certain that the Pioneer is aground upon stone at the bottom of the river, but they expect to get her off in December. Our party has settled down m the territory of a chief, quite independent of the Portuguese Dr. Livingstone and party make the Pioneer their head-quarters, and make expeditious about the Nvassa &c, of a few days. They were all well. Our object will be to get to the Pioneer as soon as possible and get the benefit of Livingstone s aid to join the' Bishop. I must now, I think, conclude, as I have several letters to write, I wrote last to Color.el Eustace. Clarke is most invaluable. He knows ev.erii.hinE, and he docs everything, and he is always willing to do everything. Mr. Dickenson is proving, besides the introduction and commendation that his professional knowledge bear with it, to all everywhere, what an additional advantage an affable'manner and amiable disposition can effect. I feel that much of

(m^kifcA r^ptißK is sins to iVi^ss.' lia J« iageaevs-l request, and always ready find willing ivith Ins professional aid. We try to keep ourselves well employed. We go out on fchuotinj; expeditious at sunrise before the heat, remain in duriug the heat ot the day, mid go out before sunset. I am, &c, " Heshy de Wist Biwrpp. — A dvrtiscr ami Mail. A PRISONEI~FOiT~FiPTY YEARS—A STRANGE STORY. Tha Registrar Winslow attended at the Queen s Bench Prison on Thursday, for the purpose of liberating prisoners under the provisions of tlusflewi Bankruptcy Act. lie attended William Miller in his own room. The Registrar: "I am Eorry, Mr. Miller, you cannot come to me. I wish to ask you some questions." The prisoner was then sworn. IheKe-'rL-Arar : " You were first arrested in ISIS 1 Ao : It w tho 3rd of September, ISH. I have reason to remember." Registrar: " What were you ? '1 carried on business as a carpenter and general cabinet maker, in Christchurcli, Hampshire. I was bori) there " Be-istrar; What was your debt contracted for ?" " There was no debt. I owed nothing to the man who arrested rae. You will see on the document on which I was arrested there was no sheriff's name attached." Registrar: "But the £1,000 for which you are detained was recovered in some court?" " au, there were no proceedings in any court whatever. ' Registrar : " Have you over petitioned the Bankruptcy or the Insolvent Court Ift1 ft " No, I could not ; as I owed no man anything." Registrar : " Have you any property V "Yes. T have a life interest m some house property." Registrar :Do you receive the rents'?" " Not since I whs imprisoned. Registrar : " Have you got any relatives living'! " " Yes, I have sisters, poor people. My mother was aiive when I was arrested ; but she died since. Cull, who arrested me. seduced one of my sisters." Registrar: "Do your sisters receive the rents ?" " No. I donot know who receives them. The only money I received from them was from one tenant, who sent me from time to time £10." Registrar: "Did Cull take the rents?" "I don't know. I was in prison, and wuld learn nothing about them." Registrar: " What became of Cull?" "He has been dead for years. Registrar : Was he the only one who had proceedings igainst you?" "They were not proceedings. He iiad no right whatever." Registrar : " Well, say unlawful proceedings. Are you willing to be made a bankrupt." "I can't. I owe nothing." Regis;rar: " I don't ask what you can do, but what you • are willing to do. Are you ivilling 1" "I am not." The matter was adourned. On Friday, Mr. Registrar Winslow gave udgment .as follows :—" In this case I have deternined not to adjudicate this man abankruptas I have :orne to the conclusion he is not a person who, prior ,o the commencement of this Act, was liable to the bankrupt Laws, as a trader. There is no doubt that le was in trade in the year 1814, when he was first irrested ; but the 6th Geo. IV, cap. 16, which was i lassed in the year 1824, repealed all the old Bankrupt . jaws ; and it has been decided by the Court of King's 3ench and other Courts, that trading which ended jefore the passing of the Act would not support a com- ! aission which issued after the passing of the Act, not- ( withstanding that the debt of the petitioning creditor . vas contracted during the trading. As the Bankruptcy Act is to take effect from and after the 11th lay of October last,- and as I consider it was not in- ' -ended to have a retrospective effect, I must hold in his. as in other eases, that the lying in prison must, n the case of a non-trader, be for two mouths after he 11th of October. If Mr. Miller wished to be | idjudged bankrupt, and to be dischargerl. I should ■egret that I could not do so ; but, as he does not vish.it, and at his age, and in his state of health, an djudication a-rainst his wish might be injurious to lim, no possible harm can be done by leaving him as le is. I hope that.the Registrar who may visit this ; irison when the time shall have arrived to enable us o exercise jurisdiction, will find Mr. Miller suffiiently recovered to bear the shock of an adjudication ,nd release from custody, if they should be found neessary. I can see no reason to doubt the regularity • f the proceedings under which he was committed to he prison, and perhaps, if he had wished, ho might ongago have obtained'a release from his imprisonQ.eni."—jDispntch, Nov. 24. MELBOURNE EXTRACTS. ' Singular Death.—A most remarkable instance s if death from fright took place on Tuesday last in the 5 'arish of Talangatta, near Allansford. A young named woman, named Louise Übergang. sister-in- j aw of the well known German farmer, Charles Über;aug, was '.valkins; with her sister-in-law on the i'arxn if the latter on Monday afternoon. Whilst walking 1 hrough some long grass, they were talking about makes, and Mrs. Charles Überjcang suddenly cried. ■'There's a snake." Deceased then said, "He has )itme." On looking at her leg, two small drops of jlood were observed just above the ancle. Charles Jbergp.ng then took out his'knife, but not finding it rary sharp, the whole party proceeded home, - listant about five minutes walk. Before deceased c -cached there, Übergang had obtained a razor, and at >nee he proceeded to cut out the part affected, but he lid not biud the log in any manner. Dr. Clarke was nstantly sent for, and on his arrival he hound up the imb, and proceeded to make incisions in the wounds The doctor sucked the wound, and he left deceased ipparently all right about eight o'clock, p.m. She jassed the night apparently very well, but next j morning on taking off the bandages she got worse. Dr. Clarke was again sent for, but by the time he t irrived (about twelve o'clock, a.m.,) the woman was v lead. A most remarkable circumstance connected with the case is, that about a month ago she t Ireamt that a snake had hit her, and that she would die in a month, and tliis dream seemed to [jave taken possession of her mind. Dr. Clarke thinks that she died from the shock her nervous , system received, as the effects of the snake bite had passed away. Deceased was a fine young German .voman, aged 23, was only married about a month . igo, and arrived in the colony about three months igo. The ill-fated deceased was buried yesterday in ■ ;hc Wamnambool cemetery, followed by a great lumber of persons, including many Germans. — War- s lamhool Examiner, Feb. 14. s Tho lialluarui Star hears that a Melbourne firm ( ias offered .£IOOO for an allotment of land frontng the terminus on Soldier's Hill, which the f jwner declined to accept. This offer, it is said, ■nay be taken as evidence of the high value of land , n the locality. But we. want the size of the allot nent as a guide to the value. j \ The nardoo plants raised by Messrs. Lang and El. t liott are now some eight or ten inches high, and have v handsome quartrefoil foliation like a Maltese cross- t A. scroll of the stem and leaves sculptured on the pro- i posed Burke and Wills monument would be a very ippropriate and a very handsome ornament. Specimens of the Cooper's Creek bean tree, Jjauhbiiit, ■ md of Stuart's wide spreading shelter tree are to be seen in Messrs, Lang & Oo.'s nursery. — BaUarat Star. ' Mn, F. J. Drake. —We clip the following from ; the Argus of the Bth instant : —Francis J. Drake ( Inspector of Markets at Hobart Town, was "brought 1 up by Detective Duross, charged with absconding from ! his trust, and with having failed to deliver to th ; Town Clerk of Hobart Town certain moneys and ( vouchers, the property of the trustees. The prisoner j liad been arrested without the warrant, which is still in Hobart Town, and the Bench at once ordered !iim t<j be discharged. ,