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Southland Times, Volume 3, Issue 102, 16 October 1863, Page 4

Our usual monthly summary for Europe, will be published to-morrow morning. Early application should be made for copies.On the occasion of a division on the Cemetrie B Bill in the Provincial Council, at the morning sitting oi Wednesday,- the Ayes and (lie Noes got inextricably mixed. First, the Ayes were told to Z,o to (he right of the table, then to tlie left, where they found themselves in the teeth of the Nors. They, of course, immediately rushed over to the right again ; now, however, pursued by the N<;cs, who had begun to fancy that (hey were in Dip wrong. Both the tellers luckily escaped from the confusion, and, rushing upon two scraps of paper> began scribbling for their lives. Meantime, the Speaker madu desperate efforts to restore order to the ranks, and after some time, succeeded. However, to the end, the individual members did not recover their confidence, and even when (he Speaker pave his casting vote, some of them looked around in a bewildered unconsciousness as to whether they were positives or negatives. In mentioning 1 the amount collected by the Fi ance C immitiee of the Volunteer Fire Brigaii -, in last issue, a misprint occurred. Ll4 ought to have read Ll4-0, ns the sura collected towards a Hook and L'iddor Company. A new light has recently been thrown upon (he Maori tilles to land . — "For a long time past, says the Courier des Ehtfs Unis, " the means of cheating one's neighbor has been a subject of study cvervwhere. Oar lawsuits thus List for generations, and very often afford clear and appreciable results only to the lawyers. A New Zealand chic*" has just simplified the procedure. He bad taken up his residence upon a piece of land, his right to which was contested- ' I have an undoubted right to the property,' he ob erved, ' as I ale the preeedirg owner ' Alluding to the increasing tendency of the Wai. kato war to spread over districts nfc present quiet, the R. AT. Herald snys: — " Meantime the Genera] Legislature is convoked for 19th. of October, and thus they will be the very undesirable concurrence of war and legislation. The great public danger may lead the members to submit to some restraint, and confine themselves to a few necessary acts which may ensure their quiet return to their homes aiid looal duties. The experience of the world is Against legislative interference with the details of a campaign, and unity of action requires a freedom {a the commander not readily conceded by Governments founded on the suffrage of a ballot-box. Nothing will so influence the general sympathy of E'igland with the colonists as the prudence and dignity of their proceedic»s, and their power to comprehend that (heir great present duty ;s 'o protect that colony from a semi-civilized, not to say savage invader." The Daily Tdegraph of the 13 th in3t., describes thus the intense excitement which the intelligence of the new rush has produced in Dunedin : "Oft? to the Diogin'GS. — From an early ho r yesterday morning the city presented an appearance of more thau visual activity. Immense crowds tbrongwl the streets, evidently equipped for a march to the new goldQeld, and every street and alley seemed to give forth its complement of gold seekers. The streets were full of drays and waggons, all bound for the same destination, some loaded with diggers, accompanied by their wives and household chattels, and others filled with merchandise, long handled shovels, pickaxes, and other mining implements. In Stafford street the two rival conveyances, owned respectively by Messrs Colo, Hoyte and Co., and by Messrs Quick and Co., were drawn up on either side of the street, and each, loaded with passengers started punctually at ten o'clock. We noticed three drays proceeding up Ilattraystreet, loaded entirely with American longhandkd shovels, and we iinderstand that competition ara->ngst the dealers in such implements who are located in the Arcade ran high during the day. One lucky shopkeeper candidly confessed in our own hearing that he had "netted one hundred notes before breakfast." Various, too, and amusing enough, were the claims held out for the patronage of purchasers — ono dealer alleging that he had not paid for his stock, whilst his opposite neighbour and rival salesman had done so, a convincing proof, he said, that he could not afford to undersell, and that the better bargain might be driven with hi'uself. It is computed that at least three thousand persons must have left town, and this morning will also witness a very considerable exodus from the city. The Gold Secretary's Office was literally besieged with applicants tor information, and for miners' rights, only to be referred to the proper authorities at the Custom House." At Port Chalmers tho furore has been no less. The same paper says : — "The news of the recent gold discovery was only generally known in Port Chalmers yesterday forenoon. On the receipt of the intelligence several, comprising the surplus labor, got under weigh, packed |up, and set off, in the Middy steamer, for the new Id Dorado. A large number are awaiting the confirmation of the newywhen they Vill likcwi*e set off, and leave Port Chalmers comparatively deserted." On the 20th ult. the new Supreme Court BuiHings were opened in. Wellington by. the Superinj teudent. The foundation was laid a year ago by the Governor. The buildings are statod to be com. modious and handsome, nnd combine Court accommodation for the Resident Magistrate. Something of this kind is wanted in Invorcargill.

, "Am >ngst recent official appointments, wo notice that of Mr Justice £ylmer to be Gold Receiver and Mining Registrar for the Dunstan, in the province of Otago, and that of Mr W. H. Aylmer to be Clerk to the Council of Southland. Upon the recent discoveries of Dr Hector and 4 their relation {to Dunedin, tha Daily Telegraph says:— "And so the mystery of the -West is solved. Prom the head of the Wakatip Lake to that which, according to' the Maoris, we must call the Old Wakafcip Lake, is barely,- a3 tho crow flies, thirty miles. And although the available passes do not appear to lead to the head of the Lake and the valuable alluvial plaiQ watered by the Dart and the Eees, which we may hope will ere long be the seat of 'a flourishing township, yet in so short a distance we may reasonably hope. that asufI ficicntly available track will be found. But if uot A the course actually pursued by our explorer, by ' the Greenstone, the Morarua, and the Von rivers, is by no means particularly circuitous, and presents notMng that can be called a difficulty in the way of road making. From Dunedin to Martin's Bay even a railway might be constructed, broken only by the water passage from Queenetown tc the Western shore of Lake Wakatp, without. the necessity of any unusual gradient, and far more direct than we cqiild have ventured to expect."