THE HUTT ELECTION.

Evening Post, Issue 69, 29 April 1865, Page 2

THE HUTT ELECTION.

y The following is the state of the poll at the Hutt :—

The returns from Wai-nui-o-mata are not to hand.

Business during the present week has shown a slight improvement. The following vessels have arrived with full cargoes —viz., the s.s. Otago and Auckland, from S3 rdney and Melbourne, with cargoes of sugars, soap, candles, rice, spirits and tobacco ; the City of Dunedin, with sugars and general cargo ; the Wild Wave, also from Sydney, arrived yesterday, her cargo being principally flour, which Mticle is just in demand. Large supplies are, however, shortly expected. Tobacco—this article is rather a drug in the market, the supplies received from the Australian colonies being somewhat in excess of the demand. Stocks of beer still very low, and likely to he till the arrival of the next English vessel, although small supplies to meet Ihe present demand for home consumption are arriving from the neighbouring ports. There is also a steady demand for timber, and other building materials ; large supplies, are, however, arriving from Picton and other parts, meeting with a steady sale. Price of timber at Mr. Venneirs auction, on Monday last, Bs. to 10s. 6d. The ship Mallard has now finished the discharge of her cargo ; she will haul off from the wharf on Monday next. We regret to learn that Mr. Hartmann, o£ the firm of Krull and Co., was on Monday last, while riding along the Karori Road, thrown from his horse, and had his arm broken by the fall. The Annual Meeting of the Brunswick Road District was held in Wanganui, on the 21st instant, Mr. Bryce in the chair, who expressed his belief that the books and papers belonging to the Board had been destroyed at the time o£ Mr. Hewett's death. On the motion of W. H. Watt, Esq., a rate of 3d. per acre was levied for the ensuing year. Mr. Campbell was elected a Warden for the Brunswick district. The p.s. City of Dunedin left harbour last night for Nelson and Okitiki. This fine vessel, while at Dunedin, received new tubes in her boilers and other repairs. The " feerious Family " was repeated last night to a good house ; and " Cinderella " was once more received with the applause it

merited. Miss Dunn was in capital voice, and acted in her usual engaging style. Mr. Dunn, as the Baron, was also well up to his work ; and Mr. Frank Towers, as " The Old Gal from Victoria," sent the audience into screams of laughter with his cnpital and eccentric acting of the part. We notice plenty of novelties in store for the Wellington public, and amongst other things " Black Eyed Susan," "The Colleen Bawn," "The Green Bushes," "The Octoroon," &c, and we are given to undeistand that these pieces ai'e all to be placed on the stage with new scenery, dresses, effects. &c., so that the management seem to leave nothing undone to ensure the patronage they so well deserve. ljEhe members of the " Few Zealand Civil Service Dramatic Club" announce their first performance for Friday, May sth, under the patronage of the Hon. Mr. Mantell, W. Gisborne, and Alfred Dommett, Esqrs. The club will, we have no doubt, be most liberally patronised, as they have tjenerously come forward in aid of a fund for the relief of destitute persons in Wellington. The comic drama of the " Wonderful Woman " will be followed by the laughable farce of " Your Life's in Danger." The nomination and election of a member of the House of Representatives for the electoral district of Raglan, in the room of Mr. J. C. Taylor, resigned, took place on the j 19th April, at the Onehunga Court House. Mr. Wm. Thome Buckland was nominated by Mr. Firth, and seconded by Mnjor Wolmsley. Mr. J. Crispe announced his resignation as a candidate, and Mr. Buckland was consequently declared to be duly elected. The whole of the proceedings did not last more than twenty minutes. The Wanganui Chronicle of Wednesday last is destitute of news from the front. It emphatically remarks :—": — " We have no letter from the front, because we suppose there is nothing to report." The same paper says the natives of the Wereroa pah show less sign than ever of any intention to surrender. They have now their main position strengthened by two redoubts, and they are engaged in dragging up large balks— some of them large enough for the mainmast of a ship — with bullocks, with which, it is supposed, they are making strong pnlisades. A Provincial Government Gazette issued yesterday contains a proclamation relative to the sale of ss. land in the Warehama block, East Coast district j also a notice that a minor jury sitting of the Supreme Court will bs held on the 2nd May next. The Otago Times, April 21, says :— John Riordan, who was committed for trial on a charge oE attempting to set fire to premises in Walker-street, and for whom bail was refused by the Magistrate, was yesterday admitted to bail on a judge's order, application for his liberation having been made to the judge in chambers. The bail taken was — the prisoner in £500, and two suieties in .£250 each. The s.s. Wm. Miskin, which wa9 recently stranded, abandoned, and sold at Bluff Harbor, arrived at Port Chalmers on Saturday morning, having been despatched to this port by her purchasers for examination and repairs. Abuse water she looks as sound and staunch as ever, and any necessary repairs to her bottom will be effected when the vessel is placed on the slip, or on the beach under Observation Point.— -Otago Times. The Wanganui Chronicle says:— ln addi- ' tion to the three regiments, the orders for whose departure to England are expected by an early mail, it is said that the 14th Regiment is to be sent over to Melbourne and Sydney. By a curious coincidence, Sir Fredk. Pottinger, who had been so long engaged unsuccessfully in hunting down the bushrangers of New South Waleß, died on the same day as Morgan, from a wound accidentally inflicted by his own hand. According to "Dod's Peerage and Baronetage," the late Sir Frederick was the eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Poltinger, first baronet, by the eldest daughter of Richard Cooke, Esq., of Dublin. He was born in 1831 ;he succeeded to the title in 1856 ; he was appointed ensign and lieutenant in the Grenedier Guards in 1850, but subsequently retired. The first baronet was a lieutenant-general. He received his title for services as Politicil Resident at Cutch and Scinde. He was created a G.C.B. for his settlement of the difference with China! in May, 1841, and was •uccessively Governor of Hong Kong, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and

Governor of Madras. He was created a Privy Councillor, and was voted a pension of £1500 a yea*. The heir presumptive to the baronetcy is the deceased's brother, Henry, who was born in 1843 The cause of Sir Frederick Pottinger'3 death was an accidental shot from bis own pistol while travelling between Forbes and Sydney, on the 6th ult. The Storm Bird, Captain Reynolds, arrived in harbour this morning, having been floated off the bank at Hokitika on the 22nd instant. She is but slightly damaged. There were but few cases before the Resident Magistrate to-day, possessing no public interest. Two sermons on behalf of the Sabbath School Anniversary will bfi preached in the Wesleyan Church, Manners-street, to-morrow —one at eleven a m., the other at half -past six p ra. Tea and public meeting on Tuesday — the former at half-past five ; the latter at seven p.m. In noticing the last arrival of the s.s. Wellington at Port Cooper, the Press says :— " The Wellington, on this occasion, has fully proved herself to be a first-class, sea boat. We are informed she left Wellington exactly two hours after the Otago, and arrived in. this harbour five minutes before her. We were somewhat surprised to see such a result, for the Otago was always considered to be th© best boat in such a heavy sea as she must have experienced, so at that rate the Wellington may now safely boast of having beaten the Otago." The Waitotaka Natives. — We learn that Pehimaua and his people, who proposed to come in and surrender themselves, are detained in the Wereroa pa by Piripi and his followers, together with some Waikatos still remaining there, who threatened his life if he attempts to escape. Seven or eight of his people, under over of the darkness, crept out the the Wereroa pa the other night and came in, and we believe that Rio's widow and child have managed to come in also. It is now said that Aperahama and some others who were expected to surrender, will not do so, and it is probable that the change in their intentions may have been occasioned by the information that opporations had ceased for the season, as they have the winter before them to take advantage oE anything that may turn up, and are no doubt pretty well assured that if it is desirable to captulate six mouths hence they will be permitted to do so on as good terms as at present.— Wanganui Chronicle.

Ludlan 157 Pagan Milne 147 128 Burt ... 121 McDowall 83 Morgan Lynch 73 64 Jackson 61 Buck ... 51 McEwen 35