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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1012, 9 May 1871, Page 2

We observe that the Wi*eck Recovery Company is about to be wound up, and a new Company formed to occupy its place—the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company, The new company has adopted the flag of the old N.ZS.K Co., with the sole difference of substituting an S. for an IST., the letters on it now being N.JZ.S.S.

Tn the Auckland Evening Star of the sth inst., under the heading "The Share Market," Caledonians are quoted at .£lls ; Thames, £22* 10s ; Prince Imperial, £b' } All Nations, £5 ; Otagos, £3 7s 6d.

In an article addressed to its contemporaries, the Evening Post writes : —While apologising for obtruding a personal matter upon the public, we would take the liberty cf requesting the shipping reporters of the various journals which do us the favor of exchanging not to trouble themselves sending us files by the Phoebe, as the extremely liberal and highly refiued individual who is the reputed owner of that vessel has given orders to her purser that they are not to be delivered to us. He ha? also issued his fiat that our reporter is not to be admitted on board under penalty of his high wrath and displeasure being showered upon the captain and officers. Tb disabuse the public mind of the idea that our reporter at any time was detected pilfering small coals or other valuables from this tabooed and venerable crafr, we may state what we imagine to be the cause of this little attempted persecution. The person who practises it considered himself eligible to represent the City of Wellington in Parliament, and appealed to the suffrages of the electors with great confidence. We told him that he had formed an undue estimate of his own abilities and his standing in public estimation, and advised him in friendly terms to withdraw, assuring him that the electors " would none of him." He spurned the counsel indignantly, and went to the poll, where the electors proved the accuracy of our judgment by giving him. 33 votes out of some 1,200 or so. We then reminded him of what we had predicted, and also reproved him for his indecorous conduct on the polling day. "Tlr's is the head and front of our offending," and we now call on the whole Colony to beai witness how just was our opinion that a man wlo can behave in such a childish and absurd manner was utterly unfit to be trusted with the interests of any constituency. His refusal to allow the steamer to carry files is of no consequence to us, as they can be posted, and then of course the steamer must carry them, nolens volens.

The following testimonial appears in the Daily Southern Gross :—" Russell, May 1, 1871. I, the undersigned, C. Grarafc, master of the Ameriean whale-