LATEST PROM NATAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 654, 11 June 1864, Page 20

LATEST PROM NATAL.

The Union Steamship Company's steamer Dane arrived in Algoa Bay this morning, bringing dates from Natal up to the Ist April.

The appointment of Mr Hawsou as Lieutenant-Governor was looked upon by the Natalians as almost a certainty. Great satisfaction was manifested through the colony at the probable arrangement. Natal had been visited with heavy rains. The communication with the interior was seriously interrupted, and a very strong outcry was raised for the construction of roads and bridges. The Commercial and Agricultural Bank of Natal had declined to amalgamate with the Standard, preferring to coalesce with the oldest local institution, the Natal Bank. The electric telegraph to Maritzburgh was in course of construction, and would be completed in a few months. Mr Elliott, representative of the Natal Central Railway, had returned, and made it known that he represented the Natal Coal Mining Company, which now proposeß to make aline of railway to iVUrban, by the way of Maritzburgh, in place of via Tugela. The Natal Star sailed for London on the 25th ultimo. Amongst her passengers were Chief Jus-

tice Harding and family, and Mr and Mrs Finloyson. It was reported that three professionals had reaped a golden harvest in the sister colony. The local Parliament was to assemble on the 17th May. Much important business was in hand. Roads, bridges, railways, defence, water supply, the labour market, and annexation, were amongst the most prominent of the subjects to be introduced. It was rumored that Bishop Gray would visit Natal by the next mail steamer, with the view of carrying out his sentence of deposition on Bishop Colenso.— " Port Elizabeth paper." The Colenso Trial.— Bishop Welby of St. Helena has fully and expressly concurred in the sentence pronounced by the Metropolitan Bishop against Bishop Colenso. In a letter received by a late mail, he says : — " Your Lordship, as Metropolitan, has called upon me to say whether I do or do not concur in your judgment. It is therefore my very gainful duty to state that, after having carefully and fully weighed the whole subject, I consider ail the charges fully proved, with the exception of that of contravening the eighteenth Article, and I do concur in the judgment delivered by your lordship, that the Bishop of Natal is " unfit, so long as he shall persist in errors of which he has been convicted, to bear rule in the Church of God, or to exercise any sacred offices whatsoever. "—Port Elizabeth paper.