The Evening Post. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 87, 20 May 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1865.

Business generally continues quiet. The principal imports during the past week have been coal and flour. The Derwent, with 300 tons flour, having arrived from Adelaide via Nelson, at which port she was unable to dispose of her cargo, Adelaide flour may be quoted at £24, but few sales have been effected owing to heavy stocks and the un certainty of further arrivals, the other port? in this colony being much overstocked. The Hercules and Lubra bring full cargoes of coal from Sydney. The ship Ravenscrnig, from Port Underwood, arrived yesterday. She will fill up with the wool which, in spite of the lateness of the season, still awaits shipment in this port. Direct means of export for wool have been far short of the requirements this season ; considerable quantities have gone home via Lyttelton ami Melbourne. The s.s. Otago and City of Dune din, from Dunedin, nnd Scotia, from Melbourne, have arrived with general cargoes The 8.8. Wanganui left for Wanganui witli a full cargi>. The Wanganui Chronicla speaks of a change in the command. It says :— " We hear that Brigadier-General Widdy is daily expected in town on his way to Taranaki to take the command there. It is sai I that Colonel Warre returns to England on two years' leave of absence ; and it is whimpered that his late activity, in conjunction with Major Atkinson, which has been rather distastefnl to General Cameron, has something to do with this sudden change in the Arrangement) for the winter." The Bishop of Weilington, and other mem- ; ben of the Synol, lately *ittin,' at Canterlurjr, returned on Thursday morning by the

s.s. Otago. The Hon. Major Richardson was a passenger by the same vessel. W. R. Volunteers will parade on Monday next, at four o'clock, for practice, preparatory to evolutions on the Queen's Birthday, wl e.i in honour of the i suasion a feu de- joie will be fired. We regret to observe by our obituary notice that an esteemed fellow-citizen is suffering from the visila ion of that pestilential scourge, scarlet fever, which has been for the past few months desolating the once happy homes of the dwellew in our hitherto healthy city. Mr. J. H. Wallace's affliction is great indeed. On the 18th inst., Marian Stanhope, in her twelfth year, became it s victim, followed on the 19th by her brother, John Howard, aged 10 years and 9 months ; and this 20th instant, the disconsolate father mourns the loss of his third son, George Frederick, aged 7 years and 6 m mtlis. We would draw the attention of the Town Board to the state of the footway in Taranaki street, which is at present impassable. At n very small outlay pedestrians might be sivid the trouble of taking the middle of a highway on which there is much traffic and consequently dnnger. The Southern Cross remarks the absence of no fewer than 900 militia men from th monthly parades, 700 of whom belong to the first and second class militia. M jor Atkinson has directed that summonses should issue against defaulters, some of the leading merchants of Auckland being found wanting. The same authority an trainees the departure of one hundred of the escaped Wdikato rebels from Kaipara for Oraki-i, from whence they were to proceed to Wnikato, and congratulates the settlers upon their deliverance from such unwelcome visitors The Theatre Royal whs last night crowded with a fashionable a-iiience, the performance being under the patronage of the Superin tendent of Wellington. The acting received that meed of applause which a display of t alent always command*. This evening Buckstone's celehaied drama of "The Flowers of the Ponst," with new scenery and drisses, will he produced, and the burlesque of " Al "dilin " repeated.