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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 15, 11 December 1863, Page 2

In our report of the inquest on the body of Mrs Anderson we said, "Yesterday o r rcrnoon the remains were ■ conveyed to the Police En-racks." It should have rend, "as soon as the fire was extinguished,'' &c. Tiie performances of the Ghost at the Princess' Theatre, still draw large and wondering audiences. The entertainments altogether have been re-arranged, and approach now nearer ■to the regular dramatic performances. O-i Wednesday nig'-t tho company performed for the first time, tho humorous fnrce ff the Happy Man, very well. Mr Small infused a srreat deal of hi* genuine Irish humor into the part, of Puddy Mur- hy, tho Happy Man, and hy his comic abilities, was mainly the cause of making the piece the great success it achieved. Tho per formancos. are, on the whole, a great improvement on those pic.-iously given at fche Cri'erion. The sa ne pieces were repeated last night to a fuil h mse. We see by our Victorian exchanges, that the ! Southland Prospecting Association, are taking active measures to circulate the offer of the reward for the discovery of a gold field here. The ABendign Advertiser, the Ovens and Murray Advertiser, and the Geelong Advertiser, specially call attention to the offer, in their reading columns. The latter named j -urnal states that " immediately upon this news oozing out coteries of diggers might be seen about the Melbourne wharves evidently bent on exploration." The usual weekly meeting of the Town .Board lapsed on Wednesday afternoon, wanting a quorum At the expiration of the fine allowed for holdinothe meeting, there were the Chairman, and Messrs Scandretfc and Garthwaite only present. State of the Gaol f->r the week ending lOfch of December, lSt.3 — Sentenced to hard labor, 1 ; committed for trial, 3 ; debtors, 3; lunatics, 2; total, 15. Received during the week, 2. Discharged during the Aveck, 1. At an adjourned meeting of tho General Licensing [Bench, held in the- Resident Magistrnfe's Court on Wednesday, the following licenses, which had been postponed from the previous Wednesday, were granted, viz. : — J. G. Hughes, Grand Junction Hotel, North II md ; J. N. Norman, Red Lion Hotel. Waikavi Hush. We believe that. Mr Aldis, who for a consirlerab' 0 period has givt n his services as organist at the Church -of England; has been preseuted by the members with v testimonial. A work of a very useful character is in process of completion hy a party of busbmen, adjoining Yarrow street. The}- are constructing a tramway at a considerable outlay for the purpose of supplying the town with firewood, piles, &c. The late rains have made the back streets, in some places, nearly as bad as they were during tho winter. A friend of ours suggests that a member of the Town Board should be sacrificed to the fur 3' of the populace, and hung opposite the Government Buildings. The idea is worthy of consideration. -- It will be seen by our advertising columns that the directors of the Caledonian Gathering, to be held on the two first days of the New Year, have issued a well arranged programme ot sports, the prizes for which are so considerable that something like good competition may be espected. The Argus of 2nd December, states thafc " at a meeting of the International and Intercolonial Cricket Committee, which Avas hold at the Clarence Hotel yesterday attemoon, Mr S. Woolley in the' chair, ifc was resolved that the first match tobe played in the colony on the arrival of the English team should be. twenty- I woof Victoria against the AU Engl»nd Eleven, and thafc ifc should take place on the Ist; 2nd, and* 4th days of January. It was also agreed that in the event of an eleven of the Albert Club of Sydney accepting a challenge, sent from the Melbourne Club, to play an eleven of the latter here, ol which there is at- preseafc some prospect, they. should be asked to play in an united twenty-two match against thc-Englishmcn."

Miss Rye, writ ins; to the TiuteS, gives the folio ving anecdote': — " Talking of Wages, a -good; st-iry v as told me the other ..day .-of, a 'new chum,', a single man, who, came to be hired. His agriy cullimu and pastoral experience was nil and 'his; wages at home about la a week; bat he was a 'hand,' and would work for the gemmsin if his place worn' t. too far up country.' ' What wages?- --' Why, now, meester, I'll bo asking £150 per Vmem, aud I beer going to marry zoon, and my mi«sus 'ull want rations, and sharnt let ear work.' 'Oh/ said the master, * stop a bit; I think I'll marry, and you shall tnke the station and give me £150 a year, and my wife shan't work, that will suit me best.' And so man and master parted, no more being said, an example I shall sarely do. well to follow." We are informed, says the ArgM, by the secretary that the produce from crushing afc the Bt. Arnaud S lyer Mines, for the Veek ending 21st Novem-Vier, amounted to I.OOOoz. of amalgam.. The AEAobart Town Advertiser of November 20th 1 sars — '• Tlie wnni of regular steam coin munieation with Jicw Zealand and the other colonies is just now felt most severely, and unless some prompt action be taken in the matter the trade of the port is likely -to suffer a cousiderable decline. We must confess that it is to us a matter for surprise thafc i -ur merchants have not long ere this taken the matter 'up and brought about an improvement upon the present- stale of things. We know by a sailinn* vessel which arrived at. Launceston on Tuesday, thafc the steamship Gothenburg, from the Southern Provinces of !*ve.V Zealand, had arrived at Melbourne on Su-idiy, an-1 she has b°en most probably dispatched again before this time, and will be afc Dunedin before advices by her are received at Hobart Town, fbr the next steamer from Melbourne is not expected at Launceston before Thursday next. Melbourne merchants and exporters have by this time acted upon the news from New Zealand, and when goods from this port arrive there, they will probably arrive to an overstocked market. The effect of this delay in the rcceipt-of advices upon the markets is even now perceptible, for exporters decline to operate, an I sales ca i vv ith dilfieulty be forced-. We trust that, for their own credit sake, those wh o are immediately interested in this matter will. -obtain so tie alteration of existing arrangements, aud we feci assured that it requires but a little determination aud perseverance to accomplish this desired end." The Liverpool Albion gives, the following account of tho gallant conduct of the captain 'of the Aboukir' duri-ig her pass-i^e to London from Otago.— "O-i Wednesday, Ctptain Peter Wilkie, commande.- of the clipper ship Aboukir, was presented in Glasgow with a purse of 150 sovereigns and an address engraved on vellum, in recognition of his gallant and seamanlike conduct in bringing home Ids vessel while in a crippled condition from New Zealand to London. Ihe presentation was made on behalf of the underwriters of the ship and cargo in London and Glasgow. On the Ist of April last, the Aboukir, one of Messrs Potter, Wilson aud Co's liners, sailed from Otngo for London, .under the command of Captain Wilkie. After being nine da\3 at sea, the ship, while in lat. 55 = 40' S, long. 153 3 W, was overtaken by thick weather, in consequence of which she got fou! of an iceberg, and was dismasted. At noon of the same day (9ih of April) the fojj cleared off, when the vessel was found to be completely surrounded by ice. In eonsequc- cc of the loss of hor mnsts she became unmanageable, but under the direct ionsof Captain Wilkie jury masts were rigged, by means of which the ship wjis extricated from her helpless and -perilous condition, and en.i'.'Vd to co! tiiiuc her voyrge. When near Cape H->rn a eery heavy gale was encountered; but the ship behaved splendidly under her jurymasts, and the storm w-ns weathered -without mishap. On the Ist of May the Horn was rounded, aud in eighty-eight clays after leaving New Zealand the voyagers reached f'-e "[f'liames." From the AHobart Town ULcrcwy of tho 2 tth November, we learn thafc — " The discovery of a new pine forest on the "banks -of the Forth, to the north of the island, has been repotted during the past few days. The timber is said to be of a very superior kind, and answers admirably for boards, into wliii-h that already procured had been principally sawn. The discovery was made some time ago by a person in search of gold, who cut down some of the trees, squared them, and left the winter floods to bring them to the sp-it on which he wished to cm vert them to his own uso. The only drawback is that there is no road to the forest, and thafc a dense*scrub interposes betweon the forest and the place on which it would be desirable to have the timber sa.vn up and prepared for shipment. A tram way or a cheap railway, is spoken of as the likeliest method of overcoming the- difficulty, but this can hardly be looked for as the result of private enterprise. If tho Government, however, were to take the matter into their own hands, it is believed that the licenses for cutting timber, and tho charge for carrying it to the coast would more than pay, to say nothing of what would follow from the opening up of a splendid tract; of new country." The Bendigo Advertiser relates the following instance of Young Australia's rapid striding in the march of improvement : — " Two smart little boys went into the Bmk of New SjuUi Wales gold-office, at Riywood, and sold eleven ounces of gold. Some curiosity was oppressed as to how two such precocious specimens of Young Australia became possessed of so much gold, and the question wasasked of them. They answered that they had sunk a hole on a strip of ground between two claims, and bad dropped right on the top of the nuggets. When asked what they intended doing with such a lot of money, they said they were going to buy a horse each to ride on." The following arc the most impot tant items j from late Adelaide papers : — '* There has been a severe thunderstorm. It is reported that a man has been killed by lightning, A tnnper has been despatched for inquiry. Thompson, who was apprehended at Sandridge for embezzlement, has been brought before the Magistrates, and remanded. A new small bore rifle club has been started under the title of the City B-ifie Club, limited to twenty-one members. Government is preparing a pamphlet on the northern territory foi- transmission to England by the out-going mail.' It contains information to guide intending purchasers. There will be no expedition for the north till the end of March. Twenty thousand bushels Avheat of the new crop, for delivery in January, were sold at 4s ana 4s Id, Samuel Goode, Mayor of Adelaide, is unopposed, The flower show -was largely atteuded, and Avas a good exhibition Parr's fourth wool sale — Fleece, ls 2d to Is 3d; greasy, 8d to 9§d."