The Southland Times PUBLISHED DAILY WEDNESDAY, 24TH APRIL, 1878.

Southland Times, Issue 3064, 24 April 1878, Page 2

The Southland Times PUBLISHED DAILY WEDNESDAY, 24TH APRIL, 1878.

The Kingston Eailway.— We understand that another section of fche railway to Kingston, an extension of 10 miles from Athol, will be formally opened either on Friday or Monday nexfc. Ihis will leave a distance of 7 miles fco be completed before the railway reaches Lake Wakatipu. DepabtutbeS. —We understand that Mr David McKellar, of Brookadale, Tapanui, and Mr W. H. Calder, formerly of this town, will both be passengers by the next mail steamer for San Francisco. Mr McKellar wi 1 return to New Zealand after a visit to some of the American States ; and Mr Calder, after a similar tour, will proceed to England. The County Council. — Afc its meeting yesterday, the Southland County Council decided to levy a rate of 1* in the £. This, ifc is calculated, will produce £7500, which, with the Government subsidy of an equal amount, will enable the County to meet ali its engagements. It will be conceded that a considers ble amount of useful work has been undertaken. Thb QuEBNSTOWir Demo nstbation.— The Invercargill Volunteer contingent returned to town last evening from an exceedingly enjoyable ou'ing to the Take country. Their return was announced by a rattling/ea dejoie of musketry, suggestive of a sudden irruption of Eussians. Considering fche inclemency of the weather at Invercargill, the fine weather prevailing at Queenstown was remarkable, and greatly favored the demonstration. But as the volunteers were returning homewards and crossing the Lake yesterday morning, the sky became overcast and rain fell in torrents untii Kingston was reached, when the weather cleared up, and a charming day followed. Immigration. — The Immigration Officer informs us that nominations, amounting to the large number of sixty seven souls, leave by the outgoing mail via San Francisco this month for transit to the Agent general's department in London. This is by far the largest number sent for for a considerable time past, and the increase can easily be accounted for by the depresseH state of trade in many parts of England, Ireland and Scotland . The number is three below those sent by the Empire City last month, and includes a good class of farm laborer*, general servants, ploughmen, and a few married couples without many olive branches, a most desirable class of immigrants, who should be all landed at the Bluff by Christmas, or soon after by ships to our port direct as promised by Mr Larnach. I ongwood — The town was full of rumors yesterday respecting gold discoveries in the Longwood Kange. If only half of the current statements were true, stirring times at this end of the colony may be looked for e>-e long, for, than a line of payable reefing country, we know of nothing so potent to promote sudden prosperity. It is positively affirmed that the prospectors, Messrs Hayes Bros., have struck a defined lode, and also, but less positively, that gold was freely distributed through it. Tbeir claim is situated on or near the summit of the range, and is difficult of access, the range from near the summit to the base being dense birch foreet. The distance from Eiverton is variously estimated at from nine to eleven miles, more than twothirds of the way being through bnsh land. But neither forest nor rivers can Btay the advance of the gold miner when the prize is fairly in view, aud hence the Longwood Range is reported to be ' rushed ' for a mile

or so on either side of the prospeotors. We sincerely hope that the search that so long has been maintained for auriferouß quartz in the above loca'ity, has at last been crowned 1 by success. It wil be the making of the 1 district by attracting population and stimulating a variety of industries incidental to quartz mining. The Longwood Rang* is well defined and miles in length, and it is the opinion of experts that the gold which has been found at Orepuki on the one eide, and in places on the other, is the continuation of a run of gold from one of the up-country fields a run to be yet traced in patches More will be heard in a day or two of the Longwood discovery, if~one has been made, and in the i meantime we advise miners at a distance not : to be hasty in rushing the place. Undeb Suspicion.— The following, which appeared as a telegram in the Dunedin papers, explains a telegram wo publish elsewhere :—' Sarah Steel, wife of George ' Steel, carrier, on the South Town Belt, was arrested last night, charged with 1 having caused the death of her son William, nine years of age. It seems that 1 Mrs Steel was beard screaming in the garden, and on neighbors going up found her with|her son in her arms insensible, and bleeding oopioußly from a wound above his left ear, At hand wore the kitchen poker and the boy's felt hat, both stained with blood, and the latter with a hole cut through at a place corresponding with the wound in the boy's head. In explanation Mrs Steel said to the neighbors that she supposed the boy had been throwing the poker up in the tiee an 1 it fell on his head, inflicting the wound. The boy died a few hours afterwards, lhe medical statement shows that the skull and brain have been pene* rated ; also that the wound required a blow of considerable force to cuf through the boy's hat and inflict such a wound as that described. Mrs Simms, a neighbor, says she heard Mrs Steel call to the boy in an angry tone, and then go towards him, shortly before the affair occurred.' PKOFBSSOBSTANiCH.the Palestinian aurisfc, will arrive from Dunedin by the Alhambra to-day. He has taken rooms at the Albion Hotel. Uncontrovertible, incontestible, indisputable, ungainsayable, incom para tive, superlatively supreme, stand the unparall-'l'-d remerlips, " Ghollah's Gbbat Ikdian Cubes." No such extraordinary cures h*ve ever been effected as by fheos jnarveVoae Indian Medicines. Ask at the Chemists' for copies of the numerous testimonials given by respectable old G-loniets.