The Evening Post. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 242, 16 November 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865.

To-day we received the copy o£ a short Act, being a supplementary issue of the New Zealand Gazette, No. 43. It is entitled "An Act to regulate the establishment of New Provinces in the Colony of New Zealand. [30th October, 1865]"; and enacts that from and after the passing of this Act no New Province shall be created or established within the Colony of New Zealand unless by Special Act of the Legislature anything contained it: the New Provinces Act 1858 to the contrary hereof notwithstanding." The N.Z S. Co.'s s.s. Wonga Wonga, Capt. Mundle, arrived in harbour yesterday afternoon from Hokitika and Nelson. The Wonga Wohga left Nelson at 4.30 p.m. on and arrivtd at Nelson on Sun<ky morning -, I left Nelson again at 530 yesterday morning) and arrived at 4 o'clock yesterday evening. 1 Thebaique Omega, Captain Urquhart,from Newcastle, N.S.W., arrived here yesterday evening, after a fine run of ten days, having left Newcastle on the sth. bhe brings a cargo of»coal, Mr. Leonard Boor, coroner, having communicated with the Provincial Government; suggesting the necessity of placing the Wellington boatmen under proper harbour regulations whereby accidents may, as far as possible, be avoided, has received the following reply from the Provincial Secretary :— • Provincial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 15th November 1865. — Bib,— l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, dated 14th inst., suggesting to the Provincial Government the necessity of at once placing th« boatmen in Wellington Harbour under regulations. Deeply regretting the melancholy accident which has called forth from the Coroner's Jury this suggestion, and entertaining the conviction of the necessity of its being immediately carried out, I beg to inform you in reply that his Honor the Superintendent, some days ago, directed Rules and Regulations for this purpose should be drawn out, and as far as the Government have legal authority to do so, such Regulations will be immediately put in force. I have the honor to remain, your obedient servant, A. Follett Halcombe, Provincial Secretary. 4 TThe following paragraph is extracted from *n article on Panama and its neighbourhood, which appears in the Nelson Examiner of of Tuesday last:— "The undertaking which is about to bring Panama within twenty-six days' steaming of New 'Zealand, and, as we hope, to link unto the line the vast and fertile tropical islands of the Pacific, cannot fail to have a very marked effect upon ¦ the future destiny of this colony. With such a class of ¦teamers as are now being built for the service, and moderata rates of passage money imposed upon the Company, the traffic on

tlie line must necessarily become very great ami with the intercourse which lhevitablv will arise betw en these folonies and the preat countries of America, new branches of industry will api-insr up and extond themselves, and it is idle to speculate on the c'innpes which this intercourse will bring in i f wake. Ihe cost of the undertaking will weigh heavily on New Zealand top a time, In its present state of financial depression, but we firmly believe that the colony will in a very little while benefit; by the expenditure.", At the Victorian Metropolitan Spring Meeting, on the 2nd instant, the great race for the Cup came off ; 40 entries, 23 horses started ; net value of the stakes, .£1035.— , Won by Mr Marshall's Tory-boy, aged, 7st. It is said the winner gains £6000 to JEB6OO in addition to the stakes. A much more numerous and select audience assembled at the Odd Fellows' Hall last night, to witness the second representation of Professor Jacobs' popular entertainment. We were much pleas d to notice the improvement in the attendance, and that all present were apparently amazed and delighted. The programme was similar to that of Tuesday evening, and the various tricks were performed in a manner tiuly astonishing. In our publication of yes'erday we mentioned some of the tricks in particular, but it would be difficult to say which part of the entertoir.ment is most deserving of notice We would remind the public that an entire change of programme is put forward for tomorrow and Saturday nights, and another change for Monday and Tuesday, which will terminate the series. We would draw attention to the announcement, in our advertising column!), of a sale to take place, on Monday and Tuesday next, of a large and varied assortment of general merchandise. The sate will be held at the stores of Rho 'es and Co. The Land Act is said to be working satisfactorily in Victoria ; and under ,the 42nd clause, which permits people to rent 20 acres in siny gold fields district, great numbers are settling down. Advantage is being taken by msiny of the provision allowing Government to tense swamps and morasses with a view to reclamation ; and Mr. Graham Berry, among others, has been granted the lease of a *w iimp estimated at 50,000 acres. The s.B James Paterson arrived at Hokitika from Sydney, on Thursday last, with 94 passengers. Thu Panama Campany's B.s. Claud Hamilton arrived on the 9th, with 120 passengers, leaving again the same day. Tlie steamer Kennedy, and scliooner lona, anived from iS.fl oc on the 10th. The Melbourne correspondent of the West Coast 'limes, writes:— Mr. Barry Sullivan has provided some amusement for the public outside the walls of the theatre. The eminent tragedian has fallen foul of his critics. Thu Argus, since the advent of a reverend editor, has done away with a " free list," and has cut down its theatrical notices to matter-of-fact paragraphs, and the other daily journals have to a great extent followed this example. The weekly papers, also, are not disposed to favor the management of the Royal, particularly Bell's Life. The eminent tragedian is no longer glorified, and still worse, he is so unpopular personally that the upper ten thousand have sent his theatre to^ Coventry, and the dress circle, for all it brings in, might as well be abolished. Mr. Sullivan could stand this no longer. His pent up feelings have found relief in tremendouh onslaught on '"our dramatic critics" whioh he has placarded the town with, and in which he alludes to his tormentors as "ex policenun," "revolted tapsters," "Parliamentary librarians," " masked assassin?," &c. The only tffect us yet of the demonstration is, that, the Christy Minstrels have burlesqued the iiate tragedian in a trifle entitled " Used Up." The popular verdict on Mr. Sullivan heie is that he is a clever actor, but that as a man he is eaten up by vanity. The scarcity of meat at Hokitika, and its consequent high price, led to a public meeting being held there, to induce the Government to throw open the ports. Mr. M'lntyre, of the firm of Morison, Law and Co., spoke on the occasion, attributing the scarcity to closed ports, ostensibly to preserve the herds of the province from pleuro-pneumonia, but in reality to put money in the pockets of Christchurch squatters. He knew one gentleman who, in the event of the port being declared open, was prepared to supply butchers at such I a figure as would enable them to sell good meat at the rate of 8d and 9d per lb, and the firm with which he had the honour to be connected, had herds of cattle in Southland

they couli' afford to sell at £9 and £\0 a head, and make a hmdsome profit by them. Jt was ultimately decided that a memorial should be drawn up anil signed by every business man and digger on the cwast. Other grievances were brought forward, but the consideration of them left for " a monster indignation meeting," to be held on the 15th instant, to " more deeply consider the manifold abuses under which the community were labouring." ¦' The Champion Cup will be run for at Launceston on the I3lh of February, 1866. The value of the Cup is £500 soys., with a sweep of 30 soys. added, half forfeit. Second horse to rece've 100 soys, and third 50 soys, out of the stakes. Weights .-—Three years, 7%t ; four, B*t 61bs ; five, 9st ; six years and aged, 9st slbs. Distance three miks. >j(The official business of the province of imarl borough has been transferred to Blenneim/\ 1 The Tim aru Herald states that a "cauliflower" from the garden of Mr. Green, Royal Hotel, was shown the other day, weighing forty- seven pounds. When divested of all the leaves and stalk, the flower alone weightdover twenty pounds. The inauguration of the Provincial Grand Lodge of New Zealand, under the Irish Constitution, on Thursday next, the 9th inst., will, we learn, be most appropriately opened with Divine Service, which is to be held in St. Paul's Church, Princes-street, at 11 a.m. The Officers of the Provincial Grand .Lodges and the Masonic body generally will attend in evening dress, without regalia. Several clergymen are expected to officiate in various parts of the service. The Rev. Thomas Kerr, who is a member of the ancient fraternity* will preach the sermon, and the choir of St. Paul's Church, augmented by that of the military, will perform the choral portions of this interesting ceremonial. The offertory is to be devoted to the fund in aid of St. Stephen's Orphan Home. We have been requested to stnte that the public generally will be admitted to the Church, as only part* of the sitting accommodation will be required for Masonic Brethren. At the conclusion of the service the Mnsons will proceed to the Lodge Room, Masonic Hotel, and the Provincial Grand- Lodge will be formally opened for the first time. We congratulate the Brotherhood on the establishment of so high an authority as the Provincial Grand Lodge, enabled as it is to take cognisance of every matter relating to Masonry withsn the bounds of its jurisdiction. — N. Z. Herald,