WELLINGTON.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 984, 4 April 1871, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Tuesday, April 4, The Luna left last night with the Southern volunteers. A match between ten of Otaso and ten of Wellington resulted in a victory for Otago, which won by 17 points.

An Otago paper states that the policy of insurance made out on a certain recently insured Lunatic Asylum described the building as of wood and iron, and at present occupied by the provincial Government. The new Bishop of Dunedin is to be consecrated on Ascension Day, 18th May, when it is expected that the .Primate and the Bishops of Wellington, Nelson, and Auekland, will assist in the ceremony. A very sad accident occurred on the 18th March, on the Waihou River, by which a gentleman named Cooper lost his life. Mr James Sims Cooper, late of Red Hill, Surrey, arrived from Eng land but a short time since, and was travelling for his health in the Waikato and Lake Conntiy. Accompanied by Lieutenant Owen, he left Cambridge on the 17th ult., and slept that night at Matamata. On the 18th, whilst attempting to ford the Waihou River, his house lost its footing, and was carried down by the current, the rider being drowned and the horse being saved. For four days the river was watched, but the body was not re covered.—New Zealand Herald. A Taranaki p;iper says :—At Opunake a report is current that the King party and Te Kooti. and hi* followers have had a fight, so writes our correspondent, and that Te Kooti has got the worst of it, several of his men having been killed. The cause of this attack, it appears, has arisen from a determination on the part of the King to punish Te Kooti for his insolence when he visited the head-quarters of his Majesty Tawhiao, some twelve months or so since." The Grey River Argus has it "on excellent authority that the new Parliament will be convened for the despatch of business in the beginnirg of June, if not at an earlier period. The financial year expires on the 30th of that month, and we are informed that it "will be absolutely necessary to take power for dealing with certain financial matters before that time. Our authority goes further to the. effect that the present is not the first time that the pressure of the ( power behind the throne ' referred to by I)r Featherston when the Public Debts Act was parsed, has been powerfully felt by the Ministry of the day, and (hat. inconvenient results have been only averted by the promise of an early meeting of Parliament " Another startling instance of the uncertainty of life (<ay.s the Wanganui Evening Herald, March 25) was vividly brought before our notice last Saturday, Mrs Potto, wife of Mr Henry Potto, saddler, residing in Wicksteed place, was seized with an apoplectic fit at halfpast seven o'clock. Dr Earle was at once summoned, and found her breathing stertorously, plainly indicating the nature of the attack. The deceased expired in a short time after his arrival. We deeply sympathise with the family circle deprived of a wife and mother in this awfully sudden manner.