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Southland Times, Issue 3418, 4 June 1879, Page 2

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Australians,, will, • be. interested, ,in r lf po\ying that: Faii'bairn,iNp, 6lofj'tlie;Carnbridge.winning. ere wy ■, j and ; one of .the •■, spare - men^i Armytage, i both, of the; Jesus ' College from the antipodes. Armytage, itta'ay. further be mentioned,' 1 isjjgerierally considered a better. , man • 'thatfßrrdl who displaced him. .JM>T«>.u, t » : y-- -^ i*i;> The Examinoir y was^ pager \ to ' hint that the projectieb^expedition toNe^r Guinea j_ , orn / I|a^y J r,w r as nqt^eal]^ destined" for the soumernv_'enu.s^Here, b'utfor a spot |nuch;xn^arec hpnie, : >yiz., t the ,coasJt k o,f Albania. Public " bpinjoftis corping round to firis. impression, audit islborne outby. the, ifaefc thatiG-aribaldi has published a letter jnf •which: j 'lie [ fstrongly; ; 6 discountenances $ig New Guinea project, though than__3gi4bfil jband of Italian^ • UvbTo /li_d placed ..themselves at the disposal of his son. The -ft a British 'prbiedteraie^ 'overdue . •islsratlj^^ referred td;iri PdrMfce'ntf - last ? "we^^Hvlreri,"' fii ; Hfewer O T/o*'Mf __lyg_te, ' wlm_askedif...Sir.Ari_ai^ jany ireeornmendatiofl :onA_ye subject, Sir ;Michael Hicks-Beach --replied that Sif Arthur had ttofc^recommended' a protec- , borate,, pprid^4/f M x G^o,y ernmenl.prpppse to ]take any such step;!, ,siiat hail occurred : iwas this, that his .attention had been drawn ; jto the gold-friining expeditions from the - Australian ( cploniesy and the I " difficiil ties that i might arise ! 'thrb%h^he : w : ari I t of any really {constituted a^ jhad accordingly- Jc'oilsiilted Sir Arthur iGprdpix, and afteiT-discussing the . matter ■^ itn© \*xnimrig^ i;^ if allures -^'tliat- every^bmgV tn^t^Ci'^s •! necessary should be done cduTd be effected' iby a ; 'peribascaf visit rfrprrrfpnej^ 'of ;Her i Majesty's Bbss-6f- war orr ' the^stafidn.^ Sir ; Arthur Gordon was, \ howeyerj/abouti to 'return to Fijij and Ke _md-been instructed to jmake in^riMes V, b_ ? ; tbjei'Spb^ *'ancl make ; what considered ; necessary. ,/ :X^" A: ' ( /'/Yt \t ■? „ ; Four years ago the' business prerinses 'of i a Mr 'Gibbpns/corn! dealer'/ hear^Altbn, were ente're^'a__ W ( ca!sh-lJox^c<intaining £155 Jin gold ; and silver, stolen. No clue was i obtained to the^pbber. J_ fe% days bac)s however, Mr Grbtfons received ! from j Afas'tr'alia' "aVpack%e • which 'cb-talned *#fte missing cash-box,- atid'd better written in a supiriorh'afM;. arid^^-' in well-coubhed terms] SvMch ■ j6tateo> that the -writer i 'had) >i&u 'mbhiehi of 'desperation y ; i___fc6i_-?by l }__'Si;. i fortune, stolen the cash-box and rte'ebnrtents. With _ietoproce§ds _e i_tadjigo_e' to : A^tpsa^ jy^ ".£":

judicious way he had made for himself a competency. The cash-box he had kepi as a memento of his crime, and he now returned it with the £155,, together with U per cent, per annum for the time that had elapsed since the theft. The writer wound " up by asking for Mr Gibbons' forgiveness and requesting him, it is stated, to notifj'i tiie safe rct-eipt pf the package ih ' the Argus. ' "" V . ,v. ' Final arrangements have now been made for laying the duplicate cable to Australia, and' considerable satisfaction is generally expressed' at the readiness of the Colonial Governments to waive their right to the cable actually constructed, in view of the national emergency requiring the completion of telegraphic communication with the Cape to be effected as speedily as possible. , But, as. it has often been .remarked, Australians are in some respects more alive l to tiie inteiests of the Empire than many of those resident in the United Kingdom itself.