The Evening Post. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 279, 30 December 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1865.

The Bishop of Wellington will hold a service in the new Educational building, at Kai Warra Warra, on Sabbath next, at half-past six o'clock in the evening. A collection in aid of the funds will be made. The Banks will be closed on Monday next, being New Year's Day. It is understood (says the Wanganui Chronicle) that early next week General Chute proposes making some decided demonstration from Patea against the rebel natives in that vicinity. Of course the precise nature of the contemplated movements is very preperly not known by the public. Mr. Robert Pharazyn curtly addresses the electors of Rangitikei. Ho says :— " Believing that the K policy which I supported during the last session of the General Assembly still meets with your approval, I again place my services at your disposal. On all the great questions affecting the interests of the colony, my opinions are sufficiently known to render it unnecessary for me to say more than that I have seen no reason to alter them." The Town Board meeting was held yesterday afternoon, in the Board room ; the following Commissioners were present :—: — Mfifirs. Bishop, Borlase, Dransfleld, Jacka, Mills, Plimmer, and Quin. Mr. Bishop informed the Board that he, unaccompanied by Mr. Borlase, who was unavoidably absent, had seen Mr. Brandon, who had declined to take ai.y slops in the matter of the Market Hall, on the ground that the building was in the hnnda of the Town Board, lie further snid he had, on leaving Mr. Brandon's office, waited on the Manager of the Insurance Office in which flip building had been insnrpil, and wished him to renew the insurance whir h liis clerk had informel him was imliossililc Mr. Bishop informed- the Board

that he had anon the Wnnlen of the Ginl, and that the prisoner* h-id on Christmas Day received two sucks of tobacco each, and an addition to their usual fare in the shape of . plum puddings, the total cost of which j amounted to £(, 2s Bd.' Mr. Donald M'Leod's \ letter, which had been read at the previous ' meeting, was read again and considered. Mr. > Borlase advocated the introduction of a proper supply of water, but feared that at present it was beyond the funds a£ the disposal of the Board. Mr. Jacka expressed his opinion that if entertained, the matter should be confided to the City Surveyor. It was agreed a letter should be forwarded to Mr. M'Luod, inquiring his charge for supplying the following information :— lst. What works are requisite for the water supply ; 2nd. The I probable cost of such works. «A deputation ' from the Fire Brigade waited Hpon the Board requesting assistance for the erection of bell towers, and were informed the application should be made in writing, when it would be considered The City Surveyor's report having been read, the meeting adjourned. ! With the exception of two or thr/je i charges of drunkenness, the Resident Mnpiatratc has, for the last couple of days, been busily employed in dealing with debt cases. The lists contain the names of a few abscouders whom it is intended to make amenable to justice ; and gome whose taste for litigation is so strong that they will not discharge their accounts without being compelled to do so. We would remind intending excursionists to Picton on Monday next, per Wanganui, that the time named for starting from the Queen's Wharf is half past seven o'clock a.m. The s.s. Beautiful Star arrived from Wanganui last evening at 7 p.m., after a good passage of twelve hours, and will sail for Napier this evening. The Lady Bird and Wanganui were proceeding up the river when she left. The stocks of flour at Dunedin have been considerably augmented by the arrival of a vessel from Valparaiso with 600 tons of Chilian.