PORIRUA ELECTION.

Evening Post, Issue 75, 6 May 1865, Page 2

PORIRUA ELECTION.

Tlie following are the returns from the various polling places in the district : —

Business brisk, principally owing to purchases made for the Wanganui market, the s,-). Rangitira and schooner Bie having both left for that port with full cargoes. The want of steam communication with Wania vi for some time past, owing to the 8t earner belonging to that port having been cht rt red by Government, has caused a considerable demand for vaiious articles in that narket. Ihe following vessels have arrived in port during the pnßt week, viz :—The s.s. Otago and Lady Bird from Dunedin, thp latter bringing about SO tons of flour ; the biigautine William, with a full cargo of wheat for Messrs. J. and H. Kebbell ; the barque Prince Regent, from Newcastle, with coals, she also brought news of the arrival of ti>e English mail at Melbourne. The Mallard has finished discharging, and hauled off from the Wharf on Monday last, hhe proceeds to Valparaiso on completing her ballasting. Flour— This article, owing to recent arrivals, has fallen in price considerably, and we may expect to have it still lower ; sales have been effected at £23. The Lady Dirlins is hourly expected from Dunedin, her cargo being principa'lv flour. The Herar, from London, may aho be looked for in about a week, a number of articles of which she lias supplies on board bbinjj grwuly in demand, and several parcels I are changed hands to arrive. The Election intelligence from Wanganui this morning, denies the candidature of Mes>rs. Cameron, Watt, and Allison Mr. C mtMn having positively declined to stand, while Mr. Watt and JJr. Allison had taken no steps in the matter, though it was probable that Mr. Watt would be put forward at the nominal ion. At Runyiiikd, in addition to Mr. Ualeonibe, Messrs. Milne, Richards, junr., and .Kreetli, were spoken of, but there appeared to be much uncertainty as to whether all these gentlpmen would be proposed at the hustings. Much disappointment had been fe t at Mr. Benjamin Miiith having refused the almost unanimous invitation of the elector* to staii'J. Wednesday's Wanganui Chronicle does not contain any news from the Front. The Waikuto Forest Rangers started for the Patea on Tuesday morning, under the command of Major Yon Tempsky and Captain Ge true. On Saturday the Ahuriri left for Munaksiu. She called in at Patea, where the Lieutenant-Genoral commanding, came off in the Gundagai, and proceeded to Auckland. There were twenty-four vessels in hat bourn day or two ago. The Chronicle says :— " We ob*erve that Captain McDonald, who has been appointed to the command of the Native Contingent here, and, it is also said, to the general command of the force tip the river, arrived on Saturday in the Rangatira. His conduct when commander of the Maori Contingent at V\ aiuku marks him as well fittea for the post. He is an excellent Maori scholar, and possessed of the tact so eminently necessary in the command of such a corps." A sitting of the Supreme Court, under the provision* of the Debtors' and Creditors' Act, will be held at the Court House on Monday next, at ten o'clock. A public Missionary meeting will be held in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Sydneystreet, on Monday evening next, when several reverend gentlerueii^ill address the meeting, and a collection be taken in aid of the Missionary fund. The election of officers for the Wellington Athensemnn for the ensuing twelve months will take place at the Institute on Tuesday evening lit- xt. Last evening the Civil Service Dramatic Curp9 made their first appearance, at least on tha boards of a Wellington stagp, and most creditably indeed did they acquit themiselves^ A littlu uutasiuess at starting whs perceptible, but a#n;!ie play progressed confidence v as restored, und the audience repeuiedlv applauded the exertions of the perturiners. An appropriate prologue was well delivered, when immediately followed the Na-

tional Anthem, in which Miss Dunn took a prominent part. A solo on the violin, from the artistic manner with which it was executed, was deservedly encored ; and the " Civil Service Polka," composed expressly for the occasion, rectived its due meed of applause. On the whole, the evening's entertainment was ii success, the result highly flattering to the promoters of an amateur theatrical performance, and sufficiently encouraging to induce the Cluh to coniinue their exertion*. The house was well filled with an au iience representing the wealth and beauty of the Empire City.

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