The Evening Post. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 254, 30 November 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1865.

Up, We have much pleasure in informing the public that the question of carrying the mails between Wellington and Wanganui has at length been finally settled, and vjobb and Co. the «ut ceasttil contractors. Tenders were •ent in by by Mr. Davis, of Otaki, for the conveyance of the mails twice a week by packhorsc ; and by Captain Anderson, on behalf of Cobb and Co., for their transmission by coach, without limit as to weight. The difference between the tenders amounted to ptmut £60g^\Before deciding the matter, the PustmasteMieneral referred the question to the Provincial Executive, by whom it was considired, and deemed advisable to accept the tender of Mr. Anderson for the transmission of the mail by coacb. The service to be pa-formed will thus ensure a more regular 'iiul frequent delivery both of letter and newspaper mails ; and the extra advantage to the o.ulying districts will be secured at a vpry slight txtra cost, as the subsidy now pfill for the tra nsmisflion of the mail by « c m"t to Wanganui can be dispensed with. Ciiptii n Anderson was yeserday informed of the acceptaroa of his tender, and proceeded in the afternoon to Christchurch, to make arrangements for carrying into effect the immediate fulfilment of hia contract. The B-rvico will commence about the close of D cemher Hi* Exoellcncy the Governor has been pl*"'flni lo m;tki>the undermentioned appointment hin tin Militia and Volunteers j— ln the

Auckland Militia — Lieutenant Charles Alellsop to be Captain, Lieutenant Robert Hattaway to be Captain, Lieutenant Frederick Howard to be Captain, Ensign Joseph Edward Hickaon to be Lieutenant, Ensign John Beresford Fitzroy Peacocke to be Lieutenant, Charles Tollemache Edwards to be Ensign, F. Simpwn to be Ensign. In the Canterbury Engineer Volunteers— William Frederick Moore to be Captain, Alexander Lean to be Lieutenant, Robert Peel Crosbie to be Lieutenant. In the Fnvercargill Rifle Volunteers — William Pauton Grigor to be AssistantSurgeon, Charles Knight, Esq , Auditor of Public Accounts, has been appointed Examiner of Southland Provincial Debts under the second section of " The Southland Provincial Debt Act, 1865." Edmund Jas. Cox, Esq , has been appointed Revising Officer for the Province of Auckland under " The Friendly Societies Act' 180(3." and " The Building and Land Societies Ordinance," and its amendment of 1856 and 1865. Reginald Newton Biggs, Esq., has been placet) on the roll of Justices oi the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand. The following gentlemen have resigned the commissions held by them :— Captain Alexander Pilmer, Wellington Rifle Volunteers ; Coi net Joseph W. Jordan, Rangitikei Cavalry Volunteers ¦ Ensign William Kent, Nelaon Rifle Volunteers. This morning's Independent complains of its news ! ! 1 being misquoted by the New Zealand Herald, extracts from the Advertiser, " in which the writer talked some utter nonsense," being credited to the Independent. Ho far good ; but why should this bright particular Btar fling a stone at the Evening Post —how has it offended. We fear the dull times are telling on our contemporary's better understanding. " Sometimes, too," (says the luminary on the other side of the street) the opinions of the Evening Post — when it has any— are put forth to the public as ours." True, our opinions are seldom in flicted on the public, but, when in the vein, we do not indulge in Bneer". neither do we transfer to our columns, in absent mjod, from other journals without any acknowledgment — an offence for which the Independent lately received a rap on the knuckles from that, very Auckland paper, " whose peculiar style of sub-editing it cannot comprehend."