INVERCARGILL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2056, 7 September 1868, Page 3

INVERCARGILL.

(prom otra own correspondent.) Ist September. During the last month we have had a most unprecedented dulness in all branches of trade. We scarcely ever witness up-country drays taking away their usual loads. The hope is that we have now witnessed the worst month during the year. For 14 or 15 days at a time we have not had any steamers arriving at the Bluff. The subsidy for carrying the mails to and from Melbourne ceases after the next trips of the 6th and 9th, when it is to be hoped that a more regular system of arrival and departure of steamers will be adopted. The outward mail via Suez always leaves here three;days before the. inward mail arrives; consequently, such a system is perfectly useless to New Zealand as a means of quick communication with England. ; X think the Postal authorities, considering the large subsidies paid to. the Peninsular and Oriental, as well as. to. the Panama steamers, should so arrange the services as to give us a a fortnightly communication, instead of the wretched and untimely- service now adopted. |; The- tidal wave caused some irregularities in the rise and fall of the sea both at the Bluff and New River. At River ton, it jv^as noticed as coming.up in the.form of a large wave, and report says the good people of Riverton took to the hills for Shelter. lam sorry to have,to report the death of Mr Cameron, of your town, surveyor. This gentleman was sent by the Otagq Government to Preservation Inlet, to.lay " off a township. He had been out shooting, and\ in returning after dark through' dense scrub, whilst feeling his way with the butt, end of;r his. gun,; it went off, and lodged the charge in his arm near the elbow. This occurred on Saturday, the 15th. The whole pasty left the next day, in a small whale-boat, and arrived at Riverton on the" Wednesday following,' , after being four days and nights exposed ito very severe frost and , inclement, weather. Mr Cameron wits brought to Invercargill the same day, where he had the constant attendance of the medical men ; but I regret to. say that he died on the Saturday following—just one; week after the accident.