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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 778, 2 November 1865, Page 2

A paragraph in the Wellington Independent states that Mr Small, the " Unfortunate Man," lias just purchased an estate at Peatherstone with homestead and outhouses attached, where he intends to settle down.

"We notice that Mr H. Whitaker is a candidate for the Superintendency of Auckland.

The Southern Cross states that it has received private information from a correspondent in London, -well informed on all matters relative to New Zealand, to the effect that at the date when the last mail left England it was in serious contemplation by the Home Government to invite Sir George Grey to retire under the Governors' Retiring Pension Bill of last session.

The reduction of the rate of assessment from one and sixpence to one and fourpence in the pound has created general satisfaction in the city—especially as from, the acquisition of the Princes street Preserve the Municipal Council will still have ample funds at its disposal for general purposes. Tes Eiverton correspondent of the Southland Tiines says that news have been received of the cutter Petrel, which left about twelve months ago for Jackson's Bay. They ■were IS days making the passage, a very rough one indeed, and lost one man overboard, named Hiahia Mee, a Maori, and narrowly escaped with the loss of

others, Mr Theophilus Daniel, of Biverton, having been with diificulty saved by the very man who was after wards drowned* There does not sasra, from the accounts received, to be much gold in that direction, the whole party h«ving left Jackson'a Bay to prospect further south.

Wb understand that Mr Ihwid Rosa hag retired from the directory of the Drniedin Water Works Company, and that Mr William Mason has been elected in his stead.

We hear that Capt. TurnbulL of tho Gteelong, has boan appointed Harbor Master at Hokitika.