The P.N.Z. and A.R.M. Co.'s s.s. Lord

Evening Post, Issue 275, 26 December 1865, Page 2

The P.N.Z. and A.R.M. Co.'s s.s. Lord

Ashley, Captain Worsp, arrived, here at 6.30 a.m. Sunday morning from the South. She left Port Chalmers at 5 p.m. on the 20th, and had light winds, calms, and thick weather ' until arriving at Lyttelton at three p.m. on ' the 21st ; left at 0.15 p.m. on the 22nd, and at eleven o'clock the same night an accident happened to her machinery, which could not be rectified until nine next morning, when she got under weigh again, and arrived here as above. Siuce the 22nd, she has experienced

heavy head seas and strong N.W. gales. The Lord Ashley left yesterday for Napier and Auckland at 10 o'clock morning. The s,s Lord Ashley brought to Wellington on Sunday last Mr. C. Cole and Captain Anderson, together with four coaches and sixteen horses. The first day of the New Year is fixed on for Cobb and Co's start, in this province, and let us hope the enterprising company will meet with the success they deserve, and that the opening day of every succeeding year may prove a welcome anniversary to Cobb and Co. in Wellington. The ship Wild Duck, from London, came to her anchorage at half-past ten o'clock this forenoon, Cttßoxing Day" has been regarded as a i general holiday, and spent as such, by the in- \ habitants of Wellington ; the Banks and X Government Offices were closed, and the merchants and storekeepers relaxed in favour of their employees. The plying of steamers for excursion 4 trips to Loury Bay was eagerly availed of by thousands ; and. traps, busses, vans, buggies, and every conceivable description of locomotive were called into requisition to convey the admirers of horseflesh to the races of Porirua. The arrival of the English mail failed to induce the masses to forget their amusement, or lose the enjoyment of the first fine day we have had for the last week. The Theatre will be open this evening, and the great attractions offered at the Hall will no doubt prove an agreeable wind* up to the recreations of the day../ The Resident Magistrate sat to-day, and fined James Moroney 10s for breaking windows at the Crown and Anchor Hotel ; Wai. Stewart, for drunkenness, 10s ; and John Richards, for the same offence, 20s. A deserter from the 14th Regt. was remanded, and will be brought up to-morrow. On Saturday last Mr. Broughton, was arrested at the South Sea Hotel, charged with embezzlement of the sum of 4510, while acting as clerk in the branch of the New South Wales Bank at Wanganui. Mr W. R. E. Browne, the gentleman who Ifes hitherto efficiently and courteously discharged the onerous duties of Clerk to the Bench, resigns that offace on being appointed to the District Court, and will, we understand, be succeeded by Mr Ebenezer Baker, Interpreter to the Court. Mr John Garner has addressed the electors of Wanganui. He says— "l am decidedly in favour of a self-reliant and self-dependent policy— a policy that will leave us perfectly free to manage our own affairs, and settle the native difficulty without Imperial interference." The new Executive of Otago consists of Brodie, Secretary ; John Cargill, Treasurer ; Mouatt and A. J. Burns, without office.