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Southland Times, Issue 643, 13 March 1867, Page 2

At the Eesident Magistrate's Court yesterday, Kenneth M'lvor was brought up charged with wilfully damaging public property, viz., a portion of the Oreti Railway. He pleaded Not Guilty. From the evidence it appeared that Mr M'lvor has certain outstanding claims against the Government for land taken for railway purposes. His demands not having been met, he adopted the expedient of closing the line, by placing a chain across, at a point where he asserts the right of ownership of the land on which the railway i 3 formed. The local Government, to test the question, caused the arrest of M'lvor under the provisions of the Police Ordinance, sub-division 3, clause 8. After a careful hearing, an adjournment of two hours was agreed to, to -enable the prisoner to communicate with his counsel in Dunedin. On the Court resuming, the Resident Magistrate said that on consideration he had come to the conclusion that the prisoner had not acted with malice, but in the assertion of a supposed right. He should, therefore, dismiss the information. Mr Harvey, who appeared on behalf of the local Government, gave notice of appeal. Misb Eloise Juno takes a farewell benefit at the Theatre Royal, on Friday night. By referring to the programme appearing in our. other columns, it will be observed that it is a farewell not to Invefoargill merely, but to New Zealand. We understand Miss Juno proceeds, at tha close of her present engagement, to Australia, and does not anticipate returning again to New Zealand. -, During the . somewhat lengthened sojourn this accomplished actress has made in these Islands, she has acquired an universal, and well merited popularity in every town she has visited, nowhere perhaps, is sha better appreciated than in Inver* Mn ai__^ l^_^£ 1 mfiimfliitl3g_B>ft fag} fi»»f»i w » .AilL

house will greet her on the occasion of her last benefit in New Zealand. The bill for the evening is in every way attractive, and we would merely call the attention of our readers to two of its items, which we anticipate will form in themselves a treat of no ordinary kind, viz., the reading, by Miss Juno, of Bell's Poem, " Mary Stuart," and Eamsay's ever fresh and charming pastoral, " The Gentle Shepherd." We would call the attention of our readers to an announcement in our other columns regarding the Church of England Bazaar. It will be seen that the Bazaar will open on Thursday (tomorrow) evening, in Henderson and Bonar's old ' store, at 7 o'clock. We understand a large colcollection of very suitable articles will be displayed, which, considering the object, will no doubt meet with ready sale. We understand that two gentlemen have come forward as candidates for the vacancy in the Provincial Council for^the district of Waianawa, arising from the resignation of Mr Pearson. The candidates are Messrs Boyd and B. H. Reinecker. The latter gentleman is well and favorably known as an extensive landed proprietor, and holding most liberal views. From the support which we understand has been promised his return may be considered as certain. The clipper ship Chile which arrived from Dunedin about three weeks since, in ballast, to load wooi at this port for London, is all but filled up, and will be ready for sea in a few day. We notice by an advertisement in another column, that in consequence of additional demand on her space, the portion of the ship reserved for second class passengers will be allotted to cargo. It is satisfactory to note that this fine vessel as well as her predecessor (the Water Nymph) completed their outward loading in a shorter space of time than any ship loading from the senior Provinces, and considerably within the date advertised for sailing, and speaks well for the advance Southland is making in the growth of the staple production of the colony. From the previous quick passages made by the Chile from New Zealand to London, we anticipate that she will be amongst the first arrivals with the season's clip. The Witch of the Tees (the third ship of the season) is also rapidly filling up, and will likewise have quick despatch. We have to remind our readers of the opening of the Horticultural and Floricultural Exhibition this day, at the Theatre Eoyal. The doors will be open for the reception of exhibits at 6 a.m., and all must be arranged for the admission of visitors by eleven o'clock. We understand the show will be a complete success. The new Railway Terminus at Bluff Harbor is rapidly approaching completion, and when finished will greatly help to improve the appearance of Campbelltown, as serving to fill up the largest of the many gaps which exist between the buildings at that place. It will afford ample accommodation for the growing requirements of the Bluff Harbor and Invercargill Railway, and is constructed with an especial regard to strength, in order to withstand the heavy gales that prevail off this portion of the Middle Island at certain seasons of the year. Notwithstanding having experienced a Westerly gale and head sea until after rounding the West Cape, the * steamer Airedale, on her recent passage from Hokitika, made the ruu from port to port in the almost unprecedented short space of 42i hours. We notice that Mr Munro will hold an auction sale at his rooms, on Thursday, the 14th inst., of a very extensive and miscellaneous lot of goods. We understand the whole are to be cleared off. The catalogue, which may be had on application at the mart, contains upwards of 200 lots. The following specimen of rhetoric is reported by the Otago " Daily Times " as having emanated from Mr J. G. S. Grant, at the late declaration of the poll f or tne Superintendency of Otago. After giving in extenso the remarks of Messrs Dick and Macandrew, that journal says : — " Mr Grant was called for ; and after a while he came forward. He said : You are very loud, long, and persevering in calling on me to address you. I had intended, as a matter of courtesy, to thank the two electors who voted for me ; and I now do so. lam not at all disappointed at the result of the poll. I candidly confess my delight in the change that has been worked ; for any change, however bad, cannot be for the worse, and may possibly be for the better. I am also delighted that the man of your choice has told you that he will go in for reform, by all means. If he does so, and if he sets to work to weed out that wretched nest of corruption behind me here, then I will give him all the help my pen can give ; and I will point out to him the heads that he is to ' devote to the infernal gods.' I am here before you probably for the last time* You profess yourselves to be lovers of much fair play. I gave my vote to Mr Macandrew on the Emigration question ; but do you think that I have got fair play in the Council for the last two years ? I have no desire to go into the Council again, but for the sake of my friend, Yogel. He said last session, ' Oh ! never mind trampling on the Standing Orders. We will reform them again next session, when we have got rid of the honorable member f«r Dunedin. lam quite of the spirit of the aged Buchanan : I have the perfervidum ingeniam Scotorum — that spirit that will go through the flames of hell rather than be disappointed; and I want \o give my friend Vogel — he who put me in Gaol, you know — the chance of judging whether he has done more service to the working man than ' The notorious J. G. S. Grant.' I saw by the West Coast papers recsntly, that while ' the notorious Sullivan' was mentioned in one column, ' the notorious J. G. S. Grant' was mentioned in the next Although I am not a murderer, I believe I have killed out some very wretched and rotten pretences in this Province. I will come forward again as a candidalb for the city, You may reject me or accept me ; and you may take the assurance that I will not break a blood-vessel over the matter. lam a candidate for Dunedin. If you believe in the policy I have honestly tried to ejiunciate and to act by — if you believe that ' Honesty is the beat policy,' and that a man should speak his mind freely and openly — then, elect me. If you believe that I have been a traitor — that I have done you no service — then, thiow me to the devil, if you please. lam glad that the choice of the people has, at the eleventh hour, come round to be a supporter of Separation. He did oppose it ; but I am glad of the change, though there is an adage amongst the theological world, • Beware of sudd-jn repentances." If Mr Macandrew is sincere in what he has said, there is no man will help him more than 1 will, to know who are th)se people, heads of departments, who have public money in their possession. I am speaking of men who have been lashing at Mr Macandrew, but who still have public money in their own possession. If I get anything like fair-play, I will co-operate with Mr Macaudrew in every measure of purgation of the wretched Augean stable of Otago, from that accursed abomination which vitiates the lungs of the public atmosphere." The Otago "Daily Times" is authorised to state, as a reason for the limited stay Sir George Grey is making in the various Provinces during his present tour, the receipt by His Excellency of , a despatch from Earl Carnarvon, which is dbmewhat to this effect t~ H You will accordingly jmdaMtmcLthaiL-fadiih.Qiiß-fliiOflDtiont Jiawoftan tj\

be noticed) you are not at liberty to exercise any control over the movements of Her Majesty's troot>s; and I shall request the Secretary of State for War to inform Major-General Chute that (with the same exception) the disposition of all those troops will hereafter rest exclusively with him. That it is not his duty to seek your authority for moving them, but that he is at once to concentrate them in such a • anner as will be most economical and most convenient for embarkation, and then to embark them as speedily as he can obtain transport. Tonr duty will be confined to that of providing, to the utmost of your power, that G-eneral Chute receive erar^ facih'ty that your Government can afford him^>iri'.^iving effect to his instructions. It will resfKttith the Colonial Government to be prepared for the consequences of a withdrawal of troops, on the propriety of which the Imperial and Colonial Governments are agreed, and on the faith of which Her Majesty's Government has entirely ceased to interfere with their native policy." Commenting on the above, the "Times" says: — * To General Chute has been intrusted a seperate and independent authority, suth as no Military officer enjoys in any other Colony where a Governor is supposed to exercise supreme command. Avowedly this of course is no slight to His Excellency but to the Colony. There may be and no doubt is, some anger directed against him, but more against the Colony. This insatiable Home Government is not contented with what New Zealand has done ; is not satisfied with'the millions spent, with the resources abstracted from industrial pursuits ; is not satisfied with the taxation which makes New Zealand the most hea7ily burdened of countries-: it still craves for more It will have the whole pound of flesh ; the troops are to be taken away, even though their withdrawal is the signal for the mnrder of the settlers." The " West Coast Times" gives a fearful picture of the sanitary state of Hokitika, and says that were it not for the prevalence of the smart sea breezes, Hokitika would speedily become neither more nor less than a huge pest-house, and her population be decimated by epidemics.