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Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1858, 21 April 1863, Page 3

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By the schooner Willing Lass we have dates from the above to the 15th instant. We extract the following items of intelligence :—

A party of Diggers had started on a prospecting expedition to the Wangapeka. A large mercantile firm have joined the former proprietors of the Plumbago mine, Pakawa, with a. view to having it worked immediately for the purpose of exportation. The nomination for candidates for the office of Governor of the College, took place on the 6th j inst. Two were proposed. E. W. Stafford, Esq., and Donald Sinclair, Esq. A poll having been demanded, it was fixed to take place on the 4th May. Mr W. C. Hodgson, the newly appointed Inspector of Schools, was presented with a testimonial of resptct from the pupils of the Town School on his retirement from the head mastership, The correspondent of the Examiner from the Buller River gold fields gives a very favorable account of the diggings there, but complains bitterly of the miserable roads. " Prospecting parties had been out, and had found rich diggingson the Buller. about 20 miles above the Lyell. Those who were there said they could earn -220 per man per week." . The Paris correspondent of the name journal, writing on the 10th of January, states, that the distress in the cotton districts about Rouen was frightful. About 260,000 people in that district were thrown out of employment and literally starving. The Paris press is loudly urging the Government to take active measures to relieve the suf. ferers, all their appeals to public sympathy having failed. The paragraph from which we extract the above closes with the startling assertion that nnless Government interfere in behalf of the Norman operatives, tens of thousands must perish of hunger in the next few days.