CANTERBURY SUPERINTENDENCY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 10, Issue 618, 13 June 1866, Page 2

CANTERBURY SUPERINTENDENCY.

Mr. Moorhouse has been elected Superintendent of this province by a large majority —as much as the two other candidates put together. Mr Travers, indeed, was nowhere. The people of Canterbury got very excited over these matters, and Mr Moorhouse was carried shoulder high until he managed 'to effect his escape, when Mr C. Ward was complimented, after a similar manner, in his stead.

The third batch of the Hau-hau prisoners were to be conveyed to the Chatham Islands by the St. Kilda, which was. to leave Napier on the 2nd inst. The missionary schooner 1 Southern Cross,’ Captain Tilly, sailed on the 29tli ult. from Kohimarama, Auckland, for the South Sea Islands, taking with her Bishop Patterson, and the scholars of the Melanesian school. ' Later news has been received at Auckland relative to the war .between Chili and Spain. The ‘ Cross’ says that the Spaniards and the allied squadron of Chili and Peru have had another engagement, in which the Spaniards were beaten with considerable loss. The blockade is a failure. Seventeen vessels were loading with breadstuff's on the 3rd February, at ; Conception. Supply of bread-stuffs more abundant this year than almost any previous season. We (‘ Nelson Examiner’) have received Intelligence from excellent authority that a valuable seam of coal has recently been discovered in the immediate neighbourhood of Collingvvood. The seam is divided by nine inches of sjiale ; three feet of pure coal being on one side and one foot on the other. The discoverers have applied for a lease of the ground, and the working of the coal will be commenced as soon as that has been obtained.