The Evening Post. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 226, 28 October 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1865.

The Speaker of the Legislative Council yesterday informed the house that he hud received a reply from the Governor to the address presented from the Council relative to the threat of dissolution without appropriation, in which his Excellency stated that jt rested with his responsible advisers to make suoh statements as they might think proper on any subject brought before them-To-day, the lion. Mr. Stafford brought forward, in the House of Representatives, the following resolution, notice of which had been given—" That this house, without expressing any opinion whatever upon the desirability of retaining the Imperial troops in the oolony, desires to record its opinion that under the circumstances stated by hit Excellency in the printed papers laid before the house, his Excellency exercised a sound discretion in the course he adopted in retaining the Imperial forces in the month of May last, on the occasion when they were proposed to be removed by the general." After much discussion the following was adopted in lieu thereof :¦— " That without reference to the general policy of retaining the Imperial troops in the colony, and without admitting any pecuniary liability to the mother country on acconnt of such retention, and especially having regard to the inaction of the Imperial troops in the immediate neighbourhood of the Wereroa pah previous to its capture, this house desires to record its opinion that under the circumstances stated by his Excellency in the printed papers laid before the house, his Excellency exercised a sound discretion, in the month of May last, in protesting against the removal of a certain number of Imperial troops from the colony, as proposed by the General." The Premier yesterday expressed his opinion in the house that the new Parliament should assemble as noon as possible after the elections,' the present financial position of the colony requiring that the Government should be aided by the advice and sanction of the Legislature. Mr. Stafford trusted that in future the Government in office would summon the house before the appropriations had run out, a course followed in every otAer

country, in order that there might be no more unauthorised expenditure. Notice is given that interest due to share holders of the Nev Zealand Steam Navigation Company, on payments in advance of calls, will be paid on and after Wednesday next. Three steamers are announced to sail tomorrow, Sunday— the Rangatira, for Hokitika, calling at Nelson ; the Auckland, for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and' Manakau, transhipping at Nelson into the Otago, for Sydney ? and the Wellington, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Supreme Court will sit in Banco on Tuesday, the 7th day of November, at the Court House, Lambton quay, at the hour of eleven o'clock. F. Qarrick, Esq., barrister, arrived in town to-day, per Auckland, from Canterbury, and will preach in the Wesleyan Chapel to-mor-row, at morning and evening services. The s.a. Auckland, Captain Ponsonby, from the Bluff, Port Chalmers, and Lyttelton, arrived in port to-day, at half-past one o'clock. The flies brought by her do not contain any news of importance. The following persons are applying for relief under the provisions of the Debtors and Creditors' Act, and will be heard before the Court to be holden at the Court House, Lambton quay, on the Bth of November :—: — William Robertson, auctioneer ; Walter Ockenden, builder and tontractor ; James Daniel Healy, grocer ; Robert M. Skeet, surveyor ; George Washington Ferguson, Andrew Fargie, and Alexander Carnegie, builders and contractors ; Frank Towers, comedian ; Thos. Frank Stephens, plumber and tinsmith ; Leopold Griebel, mercantile clerk ; James Smith, merchant ; Benjamin Smith, architect. Another of Thatcher's amusing entertainments will be given on Monday evening next at the Odd Fellows' Hall. A new local trio by the company — "Thatcher's visit to the Wairarapa"— will be introduced, together with several local and character ballads, which will no doubt afford an opportunity of parsing a few hours pleasantly. According to an advertisement elsewhere, we are to have one more night of Cressy and Ayers' diorama ; and this eveniug is announced as "positively the last" in Wellington. It is, however, an exhibition so excellently got up as to present new attractions on repeated visits.