There is very little news of interest to record. Things rum on their}wonted course, and business is dull, owing chiefly to the still. unrelieved stringency of the: money market.
The weather. had been -threatening—though that is nothing unusual—all the week, but on Thursday evening, after gale got up, and it blew and raged more than the usual symptoms, a pucka ly all night. No damage worth mention was done but the Peak Tramway line was blocked by fall of earth and rock near Plantation Road, and the trams had to cease running daring the morning. The Peakites had to get down as best they could, but fortunately both the wind. and rain had died down, and the inconvenience: was therefore not very serious, and ceased in the afternoon when the cars recommenced running. Another depression is reported to exist in the Pacific, and the-weather at time of writing is unsettled, though' the morning broke fine.
RETURN OF MR, LOCKHART, CING, his ney bnahiog honours thick upon him, The ial Colonial Secretary, with all arrived from home on the 2nd inst., by the Empress of China, Mr, Lockhart will not resume his seat in the office of the Secretariat, for he has been deputed to proceed, -without loss of time, with Mr. Ormsby of: Public Works, and Captain. Rundall, REE, to the newly ceded territory to ascertain the population, area, boundaries, etc., and to make a report (I understand on the most economical method of administering i to the authorities in Downing Street.
jo cheapest way no doubt, to administer it, would be to leave the government-in the hands of -the:-natives, but the result would: be disastrous, to say nothing of the loss of
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