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Southland Times, Issue 745, 4 November 1867, Page 2

At telegram received on Saturday eveniDg states that at tho Onnaru Agricultural Show, twelve sheep forwarded from Morton Mains, by Eobert Hamilton, Esq., have taken six prizes and the cup. This speaks wonders for the New Zealand and Australian Company's success in the production of first-class stock. The Daily Times, 26th October, says :— " Private advices received from Adelaide by the last mail report that great scarcity of tonnage existed there for English Ports, and first-class vessels were much wanted. Great exertion has been used to obtain freightage for breadstuiis ; but vessels continued as scarce then as during the previous month. The export trade of South Australia for cereals is attaining large dimensions, upwards of 81,000 tons had been shipped up to the end of August last ; and it is estimated that the present stock of cereals available for exportis fully 20,000 tons more, which, estimating the average price of flour at £10 10s per ton, gives over £1,000,000 sterling as the surplus stock of that Colony. The largest quantity hitherto exported in any one year was in 1864, when upwards of 80,000 tons were shipped, chiefly to the neighboring Colonies. Of the shipments made this year, fully one half have been to the United Kingdom." The Melbourne Serald, of the 28th ult., speaking of the loss of a child in tbe Black Forest, Bays: — "We have nowsoma further particulars respecting the 1033 of a child in the scrub near Mount Macedon. It appears that on Sunday morning a little boy, about three years of age, son of Mr Ainslie, a splitter in the employ of Mr Saxon, miller, left his father's house and wandered into the scrubby paddock adjacent. He was missed in about an hour afterwards, and due search being made no trace of tno little wanderer could be discovered. The afflicted father and his friends searched without avail till 1 or 2 o'clock, and called at all the neighbours' houses, but no tidings could be obtained. They then reported it to the police at Lancefield, and two constables, one from Romsey and one from Lancefield, went with a number of men who had now collected and made a thorough search of the blind creek and paddock near the house, but no traces of the child could be found. All Sunday night a number of people with lanterns spread far and wide through the bush, but no sign or tidings of the missing child could they see. On Monday the search was continued, but with a like result. On Tuesday about 250 people collected on the ground, and a reward of £10 wa3 offered by Mr W. White to the person who should first discover the child ; the two constables were again on the ground, and R. T. Beasley, J.P., and Mr W. White were very active in the search. Having arranged all the people abreast, they took the paddock in front and made a Very diligent examination of every stump, log, hollow tree or tuft of grass in their path, but the child was nowhere to be seen. Now about 100 horsemen took the oatlying bush, and every place from the" top of the Mount to Boyd's hotel was thoroughly searched, and a little before dusk every one returned, but no child. Wednesday, Tliuwday, and Friday were spent in like manner, but without success. The generally expressed opinion is that the child must be within half a mila of the bousa. The little boy being very fat could not travel far beforehe would be exhausted, and therefore it is mostprobable that he has crept into some log not hall a mile from his home. Thera wa9 not a large attendance afc the Albion Subscription-room on Saturday evening (says the Argus of the 28th Oct.), and there was no alteration in t'te position of tho favourites for the Melbourne Cup and the other coming events. Krewwli w$ Sydney Jim Whiffles yew

nominally about equal favorites for the Cup, but unmistakeably there was a preference for Tim, and as much as 4 to 1 was not offered against him, although there was no disposition to take a les§ price. The nominal offer on the field was 100 to 30, without takers. Next in favor, but backed only for small amountß, came The I'ly and Falcon,, each at about 100 to 8 j Cowra at 100 to 6 j and after these, the odds offered, laid,, and taken, varied from 100 to 4 to 100 to 1. Barwon was backed at 100 to 4, and the same or a longer price waa evidently obtainable about Privateer. Toryboy was in no demand at 100 to 4. Even money was offered on New South Wales against the field, but more odds were asked for than suited the layers, and no business in that line was done. There was no change in the betting on the smaller events of the Spring meeting. We call attention to Mr Todd'a monthly sale at Wallacetown. which takes place on Tuesday next (to-morrow.) We observe a large number of excellent cattle will be yarded, and, as the young grass should now be well up, milkers and store stock will, no doubt, be in good demand. The solicitors for the soi-disant Sir Eoger Tichbourne, Bart., whose claims to a rich patrimony at home have excited so much interest, are advertising in the Melbourne newspapers for any of the sailors who were saved, together with him, from the ship Bella, off Eio, in 1854— as also for a gold signet ring, with the Tichbourne family crest, of a hind's head between wings upon it, said to have been aold by the claimant to a jeweller in Melbourne. We learn from the Argus that the petition of the police force to the Chief Commissioner, praying permission to constables of all grades to wear beards and mustachios, ha 3 received favourable consideration ; but that the decision will not be officially made known until after the departure of the Duke of Edinburgh, as a beard of two or three weeks' growth would not much improve the personnel of the men. By a Port Louis paper (La Sentinelle de Maurice) of September 20, we see that preparations for the reception of the Prince were actively proceeding, and no doubt seemed to be entertained about his visiting the island. La Sentinelle deprecates the action of the municipal council, in voting 5,000d01. in giving fetes and erecting triumphal arches to the Prince at a time of such great calamity, when the island is receiving charitable contributions from abroad, and has been reduced to raise loans which will take years to- repay.