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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 815, 9 January 1868, Page 2

Brunswick District. — We have much pleasure in saying that a public school, under the Education Act of the Province, will be formally opened in this district, on Monday next. This important result has been mainly brought about by the exertions of Mr John Bryce and Dr. Mussen. The Governor. — His Excellency has not yet returned to Wellington. It is supposed (says the Post) that his original plan of returning to England by Panama has been abandoned, and that he will do so by way of Sydney and the overland route. At any rate, from the tenor of letters received by several gentlemen from Auckland, it is certain that Sir George Grey will not leave Wellington by the Mataura on Wednesday (yesterday). Resident Magistrate’s Court, Turakina. — The following cases were tried at this Court on Tuesday :— Edward Lewis v. Hamea, £4 12s. 6d., judgment confessed ; the same v. Te Watene £7 6s. judgment confessed ; the same v. Aperahama £6, judgment confessed ; Jacob Price v. B. O’Reilly £9, settled out of court ; James Fletcher v. Margaret Stewart, for abusive and insulting language, fined 20s. and costs 11s. 6d.

Cricket Match. — A match — the first, properly speaking, that has been played this season in Wanganui — is to take place at the ground adjoining the race course, on Saturday ; when for want of foemen worthy of their efforts, the Wanganui Club have agreed to divide themselves into married and single elevens on that occasion. Much interest is naturally excited regarding the event, and provided the weather is fine, there will doubtless be a large number of spectators. Manawatu. — A correspondent writes to a Wellington contemporary :— We are getting rather discontented here, and with good reason. There are no public works going on ; the surveyors are nearly all discharged, and while the lands are being sold the money is being spent elsewhere. We are getting up a deputation to wait upon his Honor the Superintendent when he comes up the coast, to bring under his notice the injustice with which we conceive the district is treated.” Does not the writer know that it is one of the privileges of an Englishman to grumble, and our Manawatu friends will have to take it out largely in that privilege.

The North. — We have Auckland and Hawke’s Bay papers to the end of the year. Gold digging had given place during the Christmas holidays to revelry, so that there was nothing to report on that head, beyond the faot that the earnings of the past had been sufficient to stimulate and pay for the rejoicings of the present. From Wellington. — By the s.s. Storm Bird, which arrived here at eight o’clock yesterday evening, we have Wellington papers to the 7th inst., but there is no news of importance. We observe that Mr Hickson, the Provincial Treasurer, reports favourably of our roads and hedges in this district, and his approval must be very gratifying to the settlers. Present to Governor Hunia, Manawatu. — Mr Howard Kennard, who has safely reached London, has sent a full Highland dress to Governor Hunia, by Mr Morrison, the agent of the Wellington province. Everything (says the Independent ) is complete and of the very best kind. The coat, the kilt, the sporan, the dirk, the hose, the skene dhu, and the brogues are all complete. The hose, the buckles, the frosted silver thistles which ornament the belt, and the real cairngorms which decorate the dirk, are all of the best that Scotland can produce. In making this gift, Mr Howard Kennard has done a graceful act, which its recipient will fully appreciate ; and when Governor Hunia appears before the Duke of Edinburgh in the costume of the clan of which his royal mother is the nominal head, the compliment conveyed will be alike delicate and appropriate. Gold Prospecting. — On this subject, the Wellington Independent, of Saturday, says — Intelligence was received from Mr Grove yesterday yesterday that gold had been found over a pretty large area in the district where he has been prospecting. The prospects obtained were pretty good, and several specimens have been sent to his Honor the Superintendent. Mr Grove and party have however received information which has decided them to start to another locality to prospect, where they are very sanguine of achieving success. We shall shortly be in a position to give some further information on this head. The Evening Post writes — Mr Grove’s messenger brought in two small samples of gold discovered within the last few days, and states that the tail race mentioned in the prospector’s report recently published has been completed. There are eighteen experienced miners on the ground, all of whom are sanguine of success, and pleased with the prospects obtained. The specimens forwarded to his Honor are of better quality than those first sent in, the gold being richer in colour, and coarser.