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Southland Times, Issue 658, 17 April 1867, Page 2

'•' i ; ' T"""*"^'' AA)\\..i: By the last mail from England the Government has been informed by the Crown agents that for? the £250,000 far which tenders were, recently invited — being portion of the three million loan:— applications to the amount of £402,300 -,vre?t9 received, of Vhioh £250,000, at rates varying.frdni £95 to £95 7s were accepted. , *': English advices lately received in Adelaide state that South 'Australian wines are realising, .from 5 to 10 per cent; ovw the jjjtfcej of foreign . "kf^M.^^^fii^MAA.r-iii vivvn; ;

— —^^^^^— ■~ - ■ . -.The {Waste Land Board sat yesterday at 1&. o'clook. Mr Wentworth purchased 1670 acr&; M*V&lurdc^ 57 acres; Mr Hill, 250 acres. Tdtel-quanti-fcy of ]%a& sold, 1977 acres. Owing to the lehgth of Mr Bell's address at the meeting last night, we are precluded from giving a'repori^ih this issue. It will appear in full in our next.' r '". .' The Government has received information by. telegram that the delegates from the various Colonies at the Postal Conference at Melbourne, which closed oh the 20th ult., have decided on establishing ah amalgamated "service to Enrope by tke Panama, Torres' Strait, and Suez lines respectively/The Imperial Government are to be requested to bear half the cost ; and, should they consent to do so, the moiety to be paid by the colonies is estimated at £200,000.per annum.. This' sum would be made .up by contributions from the various colonies, in the following proportions :— Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand, one-fourth eaoh; Queensland, oneBeventh; South Australia, one-twelfth ;* Tasmania, one-fiftieth; and Western Australia, the remainder of the whole sum of £200,000. A memorial to the Queen has been agreed upon, praying the concurrence of the Imperial Govern** ment; in this arrangement, and a recommendation adopted that a Federal Council should meet to confer on the subject, when the answer of the Home Government is received. The writ for the election of Superintendent of Auckland has arrived in that town, and is returnable within six days. None of the expected candidates had addressed the electors up to the date of last news, but it was anticipated that three gentlemen would appear in the field. Mr John Williamson, Mr J. O'Neill, and Mr Thomas Macfarlane, of the firm. of Henderson and Macfarlane. The general opinion is that Mr John Williamson will be returned by a large majority. The final state of the poll for the Nelson election of Superintendent will be declared on Tues- j day next. The returns still to come in are very j small, and no doubt exists that Mi Oswald Curtis j will be returned by a majority of fully 170 votes, j The "Otago Daily Times," of the llth inst., sa y B : — « The latest accounts of the condition of j the wrecked steamer, South Australian, are j brouht by Captain Tall, of the Taiaroa; which arrived from the Molyneux yesterday morning. ' When the Taiaroa. passed southward to the Molyneux on Sunday ; morning, Captain -,;Tall boarded the wrecked vessel. There was then a great change in. h«r" condition compared with what it was wtoercnshe was visited by the Geelong. The hull had broken completely in two, and the two portions of wreck were about fiftyyards apart. The fore-part of the vessel was evidently firmly fixed on the reef, and had not altered its ; position. The after part was apparently in deeper water, was rolling very much, and could not be boarded with any safety. The fore-part was not so susceptible to the force of the sea; but her decks had been swept of nearly every article but the fixtures. The funnel had fallen forward on the fore deck; but the mizen mast was still standing. A boat waß incommunication with the vessel from the shore. As the Taiaroa returned on Tuesday, a still-fiir-and serious change had taken place in the condition and appearance of the wreck. The after half had completely disappeared, and the sea was -making a clean breach ovar the fore-part, nothing more than her foremast being occasionally visible. When boarded pn. Sunday it was low water, and as the Taiaroa returned it was high tide. In the J interval the weather had become unfavorable, a stiff breeze blowing frojn the southward, and with that wind a heavy sea usually sets in round the Nuggets, and breaks upon Coal Point and the neighborhood of the reef upon which the South Australian lies. The purchaser of the wreck had i engaged the cutter Surprise, but she had to bring up in the shelter of the Nuggets ; and those who j were on board had to land there and make their | way to the scene of the wreck by crossing the j Clutha River. It is very doubtful if the adventure of purchasing the wreck will prove at all a remunerative one." The "'Argus " Btates that during the stay in Melbourne ofthe gentlemen who came to represent the several colonies at the Postal conference, they held a meeting to consider the state of the law with respect to the arrest in one colony of persons guilty of offences ih any other. The Imperial Act at present in force only extends to. cases of treason and felony, and consequently offenders guilty of wife desertion and minor offences cannot be arrested as soon as ''they pass' the borders of the colony in which their transgression of the law/ has been committed. After some consultation 'it #as mutually agreed to that a dispatch should^ be forwarded by each Colonial Government to. the Imperial authorities, requesting that a short Act should be passed extending the provisions of the measure before re--erred to to misdemeanors. The "New Zealand Advertiser" of April 8 Ba y ß : — " The depression of the times is affecting companies as well as individuals in Auckland; as we learn by our files that an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Auck : land Insurance Company was held at their offices , the other day, to consider a resolution respecting the winding-up or disposing of the business, of the company. A resolution passed at the general half-yearly meeting, authorising the directors to. take the necessary steps for winding-up the affairs of the cpinpany in such manner: as they , may think right, or to dispose of the business of the company to* some other office doing business in Auckland, was unanimously adopted.; Wo regret to learn also that matters are , so bad .in. Auckland tiiat s. scheme of emigration from that province to California is being actively ciarried out. A meeting of those anxious, to leave thecolony was held, a; few eyenings . fgo, when the folio wing proceedings took place. Mr Benjamin Cummings was called to the chair, and explained that the committee had made every inquiry respecting the cheapest and quickest mode of accomplishing their purpose, and the result was that Mr ! Wooly had offered the new brig, Flying Cloud, daily expected from the builder's yards at. omaha,at £l2^' head; guaranteeing to sail six -days after .her arrival „ After some discussion the meeting divided, those willing- to accept the offer and pay a deposit on their passage money remaining, when it was found. .there were upWards of men ready to do so." It is said that Mr Curran, a farmery residing at Shelbburn'e,- Victoria, has this season produced 125 headebf "wheat frpm ; one grain of seed. The wheat is of very superior quality. - The cultivation of tobaccoiswswering.eXQMd^ ingly'well on" the Franklin River, G^t-sland, The leftfes attain, aa • harness*** ske. , .'■;. ,' V