THE EVENING POST. THURSDAY,FEBRUARY 16, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 8, 16 February 1865, Page 2

THE EVENING POST. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1865.

The verdict at the inquest, held nt Barrett's Hotel yeatcrday evening, is as we anticipated in our last issue, one of '• Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." In big, busy, bustling London, the cry of murder, as lately seen in the case of Franz Muller,- creates an extraordinary excitement among all classes of society, from the club dawdlers of St. James's to the coctermongeVs of St. Giles. People run to ami fro with latest accounts, 1 business-men return to their suburban ""Mouses, and detail the very latest news with every accumulation of horror fertile imagination can suggest.. There U a general run on the morning and evening papers— men and women, too, seem to revel and gloat oa every revolting particular, i until such time as the murderer is found,

convicted, sentenced, aud bung ; then thej' settle down for a time. Soon some other atrocity vipes out all recollection of its predecessor ; it in it* time ffiV^place to another ; wlck after week, ant! month after nidftth has its tide of^iornor ; bufin this Colony, death b^vjolence being so vferyrarely he-inl of. the very whKper of surli a" Suspicion creates a lnsting" topic of corrrerBition. A murder in. Wellington is not one ofasericj; it is '¦the'*' murder, the'accouut* of it would not easily die awaj', people would datt; from it, the year in which it occurred would for many-succeeding ones be known "as the 3'ear of the murder." Ail news, had news especially, fifes .fast; in the present ens?, for irtsfauco, the body was cli«eoVere(l and brought to the Police St'itinn about 9 o'clock s on Tuesday evening. Ere that hour the following morning there were but &w not cognizant of the fact; ali knew 'the exact spot where the body was found ; it lay in the way of one of the favorite Sundny^romenados; nearly , cverj* ona had^been there many hundred times, po«sil)1y they passed it last Sunday, and' on reaching the place, the bleak, ' barreu hill, the narrow pathways and the , solitary Alngazine they think with shudder- j ing horror and pity of the small child lying cold and. stark, the water splashing over its baby bocly, rolling it over and then leaving it, it's poor, battered; little fac"e upturned, a ghastly spectacle, discovered by the pale moon lying I ' along the path "they had so often and so icgularly trod. It seems impossijle trie perpetrator of this deed of horror will escape ; that •it is a wohinn is certain, and in such a small commyJmry where t very thing is quickly passed round Irom one to another any new birth wohld have been heard of, and' the neigh-" £bors would notice the unnatural absence o* v£hd cliildi The articjts. found will, } pfig^ bably, aftoi'd sejme clue, and tho mystdr^ will be urn-ind'ed, ansyustice w.ill rapidly follow detection. Ivrt mercy not be absent, there m,u- bo a sad .story to be heard, a tale of man's heurt.tsniies^ broken vows, a woman's shame, ending, alas! in an infant's death.

It is sniil the expenses oi the Muller trial incurred by Government were about £700, and by the German Defence Association £300.

IfThis city, "Star of the South" as she is, would be gn-atty improved by alittle light after the sitting of the sun, that is to say, dozen lamps or so scattered here and -there would be vtry effective, until our purse and powers will stand gas. Anyone kepH out, by business or pleasure after nightfall, unless the fortunate possessor of what is known in the vulgo as "cat's eyes," runs an excessively good chance of either tripling himself up and ' fallin^bn the most prominent feature in his face, or finds himself in greater proximity to a post than approved of by his shins. A drunken customer receives both comfort and assistance on the* one hnnd, and danger and. annoyance on the other, from these said poats. • An individual bappyiSftd glorious almost fell over 4 us the other night, and informed us he had been to chapel; that he had been among spirits, hud or pood, we have no h sitation to a§%r, but we doubt whether any chapel, of any denomination whatever, hail seen his rubicund countenance that evening at least.' A few kerosene lamps judiciously disposed~«duld be a grcat'lbcjicnf. The municipal atraorities '«mld easily manngo such a Jittlc outlay. We must keep pace with the times. Wellington will form the nucleus of emigration — it is about to become the port of call for the Panama steamers — numerous passenengers will be her.} a day or two en passant. Owing to the greiK - power. of steam, many of the ujtyei. 1 ten thousand will doubtless include the Australian and New Zealand Colonies in their tour of pleasure. Much has been done to improve Wellington ; a lengthening of the Queen's wharf is contemplated; many fine buildings are in course oi erection, but much remains yet to do. There is time, liowe^lfe*; we have many enterprising men in our small community, and we^all know " Rome was not built in a day/'i^ jffiome time ago information was given to tm authorities that the Hutt Stockade was in a very bad state of repair, and as yet no steps have been taken to put it in good order. The building itself, in use as a

school, is solid, and sufficiently strong to last any length of time, but the river, by constant clashing against the piles, is gradually undermining it, aritP^rasliing tll§[ foundation, away. Unle."s i> the authorities take^ome precautions very shortly, 'thfe building Will soon fall yf altogethet.jg^Tiie, "General Government" lutve leased"" the stocknde, and on them tho onus of keeping, it in tenautahlercijaicji-c^ts. We. under-, stand Jour or five hands could, In' a tousle -of lf|s£" perform nil the labor necessary" to rendering it. all that it should be. fl^Vt n meting for the formation of a Volunteer Fire Brigade, held yesterday evening, at the Kmpie Hotel, thirteen working members were enrolled ; moreover, another meeting was convened to assemble at the Crown attlf Anchor this evening. This is $ step in the right direction, and we nope, under the energetic endeavors of a good, hard-working committee, that ( thefbrig-.de will not die in its birth- , but»jrapidly come to maturity. Now that .we have lost the services ,iqJ" the detachjnient lately quattcred here*he is doubly' | nee led. &-A i At the usual fortnightly, mceting^'of? the j Town Board, held on Tuesday afternoon, in thfigPdd Fellows' Hall, it was proposed that jHt\ Hart should take the chair, in the 'absence of the chairman, Mr. Pearce, who is now at Dunemn. TJie proceedings commenced by reading the minutes of for-, 'riiei? meetings, and then Mr. Wallace's inofion, asking iur tenders to keep the c'ncke't-grouml in order, was read, and nftdr some discussion, owing to the fact of its hot beiug seconded, the subjeeylropped • a number of letters were lJ tlfen 'read and discussed," after which the meeting broke up. •s* 1 - ¦ j A single wicket match, between $vff of", the I orirua distrfatpond nti^>tju,al- rtun)ber ! of the Lingaries, will shortly be played, } we believe, in Mr. Clftplmm'S paddock. We arc directed to draw attention to Mr. 4. H. Wallace's extensive sale of miscellaneous arficlts, including clothing, Lwaphcs, jewellery smd plated goods, which i tal<es place 10-niorrow, at Milf-past one j o'clock precisely, and an Saturday nest j tr« lFlh and 18th inst. We have been in formed that Mr. •Borlase intends opposing Dr. Feathcrston at the next election, i Mr. Borlase has mrt'ny supporters who seem confident of sudcoss. The day of battle is about five weeks hence, and an exciting election may be fully expected. It is with much regret we announce a fatal accident \\ hereby the infant son of Robert Russell, Esq., of Wonga 'Moana, lost his life. The child crawled to the creek outside the garden gate, and <T ms ¦found lying on his face, in about six inches at water. He was removed to the house 'at once, but all efforts to reynpshiig were fruitless. A gentleman, well known in this town,' se?ms a victim on all and every occasion, as he himself says he will either be hung or become Superintendent. lie must have been born under siime unlucky star, or the fickle goddess has taken it into her head to play him, some scurvy tricks. Some short time ago, it may be remembered, he in a moment of good nature was persuaded to 'see a friend off to the south ; while biiidin&Jnvn "a long a last fftveweH" the warps ifere let go, and off went the steamer. In vn'n he implored to be scut ashore, and pleaded that^jp was a serious Buff rc-r !')• being taken away~from his business ; the vessel was off, and could not be stayed. 'Ihj Ciiptain and purser were inexorable, and he was mulcted of his passage money. Sare'y it would apj>eartbat this was a sufficient trick for Mis 9 fortune to play liini, but it appears she still showers her favors (?) on his devoted head. Yesterday, While in conversation with his medical attendant, a file of the Volunteer guard seized and wnlkedjhim off to durance vile for absence from duty, lie was put in the guard room for six hours, and is now liberated on medical certificate ; further, unless his health improves, bo is ordered to grace the hospital ward. He nniy wed exclaim, in the words of our well known friend, Sniale, " Truly, I am an unfortuuatc man."