Colonial News.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 9, Issue 570, 27 December 1865, Page 3

Colonial News.

The September English mail arrived in Sydney on the 22nd ult., about half-an-hour before the Home mail left for England. Mr. W. S. lteid, a solicitor practising in this city,-has been appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court, Southland, and will leave for Invercargill at an early date. The Itegistrarship is vacant by the apprehension of Mr. B. M’Connell on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Farrar, in Spcy-street, Invercargill. —Weilington Independent. ’ Separation, says the ‘ Lyttelton Times,’ undoubtedly now ranks as the greatest

question that has ever agitated the public mind of hew Zealand. Whether it is so or not may well be a moot point, but there can be no manner of doubt that it forms the greatest question—indeed it. seems the only question—which is allowed to ag tr.t s the -edurnns of the ‘Times’ aud las neighbour the ‘ Press.’ Likc%luses’ rod swallowing all the other rods around it, so Separation occupies the editorial space of our contemporaries" to the exclusion of almost everihing else. And the pity of the whole affair is, that their readers are not a whit better informed- on the subject now than when it began some weeks ag> •. On Thursday 14tb mst apubSicuinner was given by the inhabitants of Napier to Major Fraser and the officers engaged on the East Coast. The dinner was quite an impromptu affair, consequent upon a brief visit to Napier of these gentlemen, and no time was afforded to communicate with inland settlers ; nevertheless, about fifty gentlemen sat down to dinner. The chair was taken by his Honor the Superintendent, supported on the right by Colonel Hamilton, and !>s• Major Fraser ; on the leifcbyUsi.pt. Biggs, Capt. Percival (Paymaster of Colonial Forces), Capt. Deiglnon, R.M., well-known in Wanganui, Capt. Robertson, lately serving sit Opotiki, Ensign Tuke, and Capt. Kennedy now in charge of the JSt. Kdda.

Yv.a correspondent of the ‘Canterbury Times,’ having asserted that scabby she; p are rarely, if ever cured, except under favorable circumstances, Mr. Andrew Tv. Rutherford, of Amuri, replies, giving the following advice.J believe it to la possible to eradicate scab, even on a fully stocked run, and I advise “ W.,” when he intends passing the “ point,” instead of bothering with “ microscopic observations,” to have liis sheep dipped off the siiears” in a sheepwasli of 20ihs of good manufactured tobacco and iOibs of sulphur, to 100 gallons of water ; dip again immediately the sheep are all shorn m a sheepwash of the same strength ; and again in March, with an additional 51bs of sulphur ; and again in the beginning of May, when 201 us of sulphur should be used. Clean country is a great object, and I advise “ vV.,” or any one in his predicament, to keep their sheep on, say half their run. from shearing until May, when the sheep should bo shifted on the oilier part of the run. Two good men shoaid be always employed ‘siiaggiirg on the unocupied portions of the run. Uuder the ‘ pilgrim svvav,’ the Cheviot Hills and Kighla nd runs were two of the most scabby in the Amuri ; but when they fell under the more energetic management of the ‘landsharks,’ the sheep were seen cleaned, and have remained so ever since.”