The Evening Post. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 125, 4 July 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1865.

His Excellency the Governor left last night, in the Eclipse, for Wanganui. His absence will be of brief duration, the opening of the session requiring his presence at Wellington. » The p.s. Sandfly left yesterday morning on her trip In connection with the survey of the Strait preparatory to the laying down of the telegraph Cable. The electors of the Wairarapa, anxious to be represented at the next meeting of the General Assembly, have addressed a petition to his Honor Dr. Feather ston, calling on him to send in Mr. Carter's resignation now in his hands. Mr. Carter wrote out by last mail, resigning his seat on the grounds of important business which detained him in the mother country $ and the honour of representing the fertile vale in the General Assembly, it is said, will be contested by Mr. Henry Bunny and Mr. Samuel Revans. A telegram iv the Sydney Morning Herald, of the 2lßt June, dated Melbourne the evening of the 20th, says :—": — " The non-arrlvp.l of the mail has created so much dissatisfaction that notice has been given to bring the matter before the Assembly to-morrow with a view to a more efficient service." Dr. Evans, late Postmaster-General of Victoria, has been voted £3000 by the Legislative Assembly of that colony, in lieu of a pension. f We understand that the friendly natives of the Otaki district who applied to the Government for a supply of arms to be used against the Hau Haus, are anything but satisfied

with the reply which they have received, which it is needless to observe was in the negative. The aboriginal Otakiites imagine that the Government doubt their loyalty, and are insulted accordingly. The barque Mary and Edith, Captain Cootes, with flour, from Valparaiso, arrived here yesteaday evening. The Auckland, s s., Captain Gordon Ponsonby, from Melbourne, arrived at Auckland on the 25th instant, having left Port Phillip on the 18th. Wo understand that the long-established school ndjoining the Catholic Chapel, Lower Hutt, bus been re-opened with every prospect of success. The circumstance of a night school being added to the ordinary day-scnool cannot fail to afford a great facility to educate the youth of the place. Children of all denominations are admitted in that establishment, without religious interference whatever. The Royal Kinapoura Lodge No. 4635, 1.0.0.F.M.U., will celebrate their anniversary by a dinner and a ball at Host Bouid's, Ferry Inn, Porirua, this day week, the 12th instant. Tlie dangers and difficulties of the West Coast Road are now surmounted, and travellers have an excellent opportunity of visiting the Turakina and other districts in a fast running American Express, which has been started by Messrs. Baldwin and Symons, between Turakina and Wanganui, to leave the former district every morning at 8.30, and return from Wanganui at four o'clock in the evening. We regret to learn that the steamer Auckland is about to be taken off the Melbourne line. It is a noticeable fact that the most of our Auckland trade is done with Sydney and Sydney houses, while the Sydney market is several shades higher in its prices, and many shades worse in the quality of its goods, than the Melbourne market. One cause of the preference of Sydney market is the irregularity of the communication with Melbourne, as an instance of which we may state that a letter, bearing the Victorian post-mark of the 19th Maj-, only came to hand yesterday, the 26th June. We believe that a steamer running direct from port to port would pay. — New Zenlander. At the conclusion of the business in the Resident Magistrate's Court, William Ford, who was lately tried for the murder of " Charlie" in High street, and found not guilty, applied to the Magistrate to use his endeavors to send him out of the country. He stated that lie \vas starving, that he could obtain no employment, that for the last three nights he had walked the streets, as no person would give him shelter, and that on one occasion when he got money from a gentleman to pay for a bed, he had applied at a number of public lodging-houses and been refused admittance. The Magistrate said he would do all in his power to get a passage for the applicant to Melbourne, but in the meantime he had not the power to offer him any place as a temporary shelter, except one of the cells at the Police station. This offer was gladly accepted by the applicant. During yesterday afternoon a suscription was started to purchase clothes aud food for For d, and a small sum was raised. In the evening it was reported that the Government had resolved to give Ford a free passage to Melbourne by the first steamer. — Dunedin Times. We have been informed that news has been received in town of the capture of the two men who recently stuck up the Dalby and Condamine mail. They are named respectively Harry Howard, alias Kirk, and Paddy Gray. Although the men who committed the robbery were masked, information is in the possession of the police which is likely to lead to their identification with whose we have mentioned. Cheques to the amount of £700 were taken from the prisoners. — Ibid. The martial music of Messrs. Greenberg's band sounding clearly in the calm still evening, attracted numbers of passers by into the California Circus, on the reclaimed land, last night. The equestrian and other amusements were, as usual under the able management of Mr.Foley, very good, and the persons who had been lured into the circus by the charms of the music did not go away disappointed at the entertainment presented. Madame Tournear's benefit takes place on Wednesday night, when the performances will be unusually attractive. The performance last night at the Theatre Royal was diversified and a good one. The addition of the Leopold Wieland troupe to the star company attracted a very fair house, j whirh appeared to be particularly struck with

the new arrivals who performed a pretty little Scotch ballet, named " The Halloween," with great success. The Halloween is evidently adopted from Rabbie Burns's poem of the same name, and shows well on the boards, especially with such light fantastic stars as the Leopolds and Fraulein Fanny. This evening the Theatre will be closed, as the Hall will be required by the Odd Fello vs, who have convened a meeting to receive the Hall Committee and Auditors' Reports, together with the balance sheet. The Marlborough Press having changed hands, the first issue by the new proprietary makes known the fact, as follows :—": — " The Marlborough Press this day starts on a new career, to supply by combined action what individual enterprise has hitherto failed to accomplish— a journal devoted to the general interests of the people of the province. We are not insensible to the difficulties which such an undertaking involves ; but do not think these insurmountable, and are determined to give the principle a fair trial. Our creed is short and simple, and shall be stated in a few plain words. The great proportion of the best lands in the province has legally passed into the hands of a few individuals, who have always had the power, and still exercise it, for their own benefit. We cannot revoke, but we may modify the evil. The rights of private property we hold sacred and believe it to be the keystone of all good government ; but we believe as firmly that ' property has its duties as well as iis rights,' and we are determined to sac these duties discharged ; the power to do so was placed in our hands when self-government was grantel to these colonies, and we cannot, if we would, ignore the trust. We do not expect legislation to supersede private industry, but we know it can stimulate and advance it. Class legislation has confined this benefit to a few, and established a monopoly in their favour which must be overthrown, the system of hind sales re-adjusted, agriculture encouraged, and the revenue raised by equitable taxation, to people the province and develop its material resources." A case of sudden death, under peculiarly distressing circumstances, took place on Tuesday. The deceased, Mrs. Susan Stewart, had been for the last eight months houaekeeppr to Messrs Pagan, Wilson, and Junor, at their station, Mataura, and was travelling to town in a horse dray driven by Mr. James Duncan. When about seven miles from Halfway Bush the dray became fixed in a bog, and the driver, previous to attempting to extricate it, placed Mrs. Stewart, who was I in delicate health, upon a mattrass spread on the ground. When he returned from his task, about five minutes afterwards, he found she was dead. The deceased was a widow^ with four young children dependent in a great measure on her exertions. Her sister, Mrs. Colquhoun, is living on the Town Belt, and has, we believe, for a long time past undertaken the care of the eldest two of the now doubly-orphaned family.— -Southland Times.