News of the Week.

Otago Witness, Issue 566, 4 October 1862, Page 5

News of the Week.

(from the daily times.) The Provincial Government i 3 advertising for tenders for the construction of 4 mile 330 chains of road, from the township of Ivutaugata to the Southern road. Cobb's coach will recommence running to Tuapeka this day. A public meeting, attended by the leading men of the Province, was held at Christchurch, on Thursday evening, the 25th September, on the subect of the distress in Lancashire. At the closi of the meeting, subscriptions to the amount of £488 were procured. The wreck of the steamer Lord Worsley has been purchased where she ;lios, for the General Government ; the object, apparently, being to obviate the difficulties that might ensue from private purchasers demanding their property, and being refused access to it by the natives, in "which case the Government would be obliged to interfere, and war be precipitated. It appears that Otago'.s hope of a visit from the Governor is again to bo deferred. We learn from the letter of our Wellington correspondent that His Excellency was at once to proceed to Auckland, with a view to the adjustment of the Kaipara native quarrel. According to the published statement, the revenue of the Province of Auckland, for the quarter ended June 30th, amounted to L 14.253, incluling the three- eighths gross receipts of the Customs' dues. The expenditure for the same period amounted to L 12,349. Many thieves of much notoriety in Victoria have recently arrived here from Melbourne. Merchants, shopkeepers, and householders, would therefore do well to look with more than usual care to the safety of their premises and property. The pickpockets who have come amongst us are known to be especially clever, and ladies, with their " outside pockets," are likely to be amongst their chief victims. The cutting away of Bell Hill is about to be commenced. Yesterday, Mr Swyer, provincial engineer, was engaged with members of his stuT in taking levels from the hill side across the beach towards Rattray-street, and other preparations were being made. Speaking of the removal of the restrictions on the importation of cattle to Otago, the New Zealand A d»ertiser, (Wellington) says :— " The experiment of importing fresh meat into Dunedin from Wellington has been tried and has failed — not because meat could not be imported into Dunedin by the exporter at a profit, but owing to a combination amongst the Otago butchers not ito take it at any price. While cattle can be bought here by the ship-load at £5 a head, the Provincial Government at Otago will not be justified in removing the restrictions on the importation of cattle from those places where pleuro-pneumonia is known to exist." The following appointments are notified in the Provincial Government Gazette of Ist October :—: — Benjamin Eox Duncan, Esq., to be Mining Registrar, Receiver of Fees, and Gold Receiver for the Nokomai gold-field; Charles Worthington, Esq., It.M , to be Commissioner for the Nokomai gold-field ; Jackson Keddell, Esq., to be Commissioner for the Dunstan gold-fields. It is stated in the Provincial Government Gazette that Mr Alexander Fleming, of Tokomairiro has duly submitted for examination, a registration certificate from the General Council of Medical Education and Registration in Edinburgh, to the effect that he the said Alexander Allan Fleming is a licentiate of the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The "King" Natives have started a newspaper. The New Ze iland Ad-ertiser (Wellington) says :—": — " It is perhaps not generally known that the first number of a purely Maori newspaper, printed and published by natives under the authority of the Maori King, has been issued price 3d. It is printed on a sheet of foolscap, and we are told that it is really a creditable production." Mr. Justice Gresson, and Mr. Crosbie Ward, Postmaster-General, were amongst the passengers who arrived yesterday by the Airedale. The excellent character of the soil in the neighborhood of the Dunstan Diggings, has induced s.uie persons to commence garden culture there, and a supply of seeds has been sent for from Dunedin. The enterprise should succeed well and we wish the speculative gardeners good luck. The Southern News of 20th September, says — "gold continues to drop in quietly from the Nokomai and Wakatip diggings. Mr. Jamieson, of the Bank of New South Wales, has purchased 8J lbs. of good nuggety gold within the last month, and there is no doubt there is yet more to come in from the scattered small parties who. have hitherto been the only prospectors." As showing that there is plenty of gold yet to be had on the old diggings by those who can resist the allurements of the new rushes, we may quote the following from the last report received from Major Croker, the Commissioner at Tuapeka, nnd dated 20th September :—": — " Douglas and party, five in all, ground sluicing in a spur in Munroe's Gully, washed up this week, getting143 ounces, the result of seven weeks' labour. One-eighth share in White and party's race Rnd claim on the blue spur, Gabriel's, changed hands at L2OO. Parties on the flat at the head of Gabriel's arc still doing remarkably well-" Gold has, it appears, been found in payable quantity on the Teviot, a tributary of the Molyneux. A brief account of it will be found in the letter from Waitahuna, which we publish in another column, The sitting of the Supreme Court for the despatch of criminal business is announced to commence on the Bth October (Wednesday next) • and the civil business on the 15th. ■ * We observe by an advertisement that appear* elsewhere, that the Government intend to offer for sale, a variety of township lands throughout the Province, during the ensuing few weeks Lands are advertised for • sale at Greytown (Scrogg's Creek), on the 2Qth October; at Outram, near the ferry (Bowie's), West Taieri, on the 21st October a* Palmerston, Waihemo, or Shag Valley v on the 22nd October; at Lawranoe^ a.t the Camp, Tuapeka ; on the sth November; and at Havelock, at the Camp, Waita] huaa; on the 7th November, It will be seen by an advertisement which appears in the Baity Times that a mail will be made up for the DunstaH, and that it .will from this date be despatched weekly. Tenders are called fbr this day by advertisement for carrying mails weekly from Waiwera Post Office to the Nokomai diggings, leaving every Wednesday morning, and returning so as ' to reach the Waiwera office oo Tuesday evening. Tenders will be received ui> to the 4th October A w.h,ale was caught a few days ago by the men belonging to the pilot station. It was about twenty feet long. It being comparatively valueless to the captors, it was presented by them to the Maoriea at the Heads.