ACCLIMATISATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE' LTTTELTOH Time,, Sm,-Allow me through your valuable paper to make a suggestion to the Canterbury and other Acclimatisation Societies, which t think, might prove of service. To acquaint each other by circular, 'published periodically of the local resources and things animal or vegetable imported. If this were done rail. takes might be prevented, and requirements often locally supplied. Unnecessary corres pondence causes trouble to all parties, at i a . stance the application to Dr. Hooker for Kew grass, when Nelson, in the same island could furnish any quantity. By the same means a zealous Australian member mieht have been spared the notoriety he gained not many years ago, by sending a packet of water, cress seed for introduction into New Zealand. Your obedient servant, t H. B. HUDDLESTON, C.E.' Christchurch, July 6,1866.
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
[bi inteupboyincial tblegeaph,] Dummy, July 7,7.10 p.m. Aeeitbd. Geelong and Lindsay from Lyttelton. The cargo of the Zephyr, from San Francisco, comprises 4082 quarter sacks, 4793 half sacks flour, 833 wheat, 4000 feet of timber, 1000 fence pickets. The Zephyr brings intelligence of one of the most terrible disasters on record, which occurred at San Francisco, on April 17. Two boxes of nitro-gly. cerine exploded, causing great de vastation and loss of life. Sixteen per sons were killed, four fatally injured, and thirty more or less injured. Numerous instances of hair-breadth escapes are narrated. The damage done is not known, but it is believed to be immense. Nelson, July 7,4.12 p.m. AaaiYEß. July 6, Gothenburg, from Melbourne via Hokitika, Ken nedy, from the Grey and Hokitika. SiiLED.-July 7, Queen, for Tara naki and Manakau.
THE WEST CANTERBURY GOLDFIELDS.
