LATER NEWS FROM NEW CALEDONIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 1239, 28 August 1875, Page 15

LATER NEWS FROM NEW CALEDONIA.

(FROM OUB OWN COBBESFOXDBXT.)

'• Auckland, August 21st. The Konilvrorih, from New Caledonia, report* fre«h nickel mines discovered at Kanaia and" Onilon. They promise to prove very rich. Several prospecting parties are. out in different localities There is every reason to look forward to a very prosperous future for the Coloiiy as regards mining. ■- The extension of Government worka and reclamation of land are now being carried on with rapid progress. At Noumea a very marked change for the better may be observed by people revisiting that place. Fresh detachments of soldiers' and couriers are continually arriving out. It is roughly i stimated that th« French have about 15,000 convicts and deportes in New Caledonia. These, together with, between four and five thousand of military, make nearly 20,000 mouth* which have been tilled' at the coit of the French Government; ' ' - '

The new Governor is resorting to very stringent measures lor the prevention of the etoapeof .piUbnen.. Every foreign trading ' veMelha* been iv the custody of a French military, officer, who resides ou board 48 hours previous to her departure from port.' The custody of the- vessel is then vested in pilots/ who are 'abb Government officers. The pilot taking ~a vessel out is responsible for her safety Until she has cleared the main