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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 16, 6 May 1867, Page 105

Next Meeting of the General Assembly.—The Otago Daily Times states rather authoritatively that the next session of the General Assembly wi'l be held on the 29tli June. The New Zealand Advertiser does not know where the Times gets its information from, and says they believe they are quite correct in stating that no arrangement at all final has been made with regard to the next meeting.

, New Arrangements of the Panama Company. —We understand that by the last mail from England, Captain Benson Has received information from the directors of the P.N.Z. & A.R.M. Company that arrangements had been made for the booking passengers through from Panama to New York } and that instructions have been issued by Captain Besnon to the various agents of the Company in these colonies to grant through tickets to persons desirous of proceeding to New York, such tickets beiug now obtainable of the Napier agents, Routledge, Kennedy and Co. No doubt this new arrangement will prove a great additional inducement to colonists visiting the mother country, to use this line in preference to the Suez route, so as to pay a visit to the United States. Steamers leave New York for Liverpool regularly three times a week, and very moderate fares are charged by the American steatriers. It has also been decided by the directors of the Royal West India Mail Company that in future the' transshipment from the main line to tho Intercolonial steamers shall.take place at one of the Virgin Islands named Peter,” some distance to the north of St. Thomas/where there is a good harbour, and it is a very healthy place. Thus,.passengers from New Zealand will not be; taken to. St..Thomas st all, npryerll they go on.board any vessel going to or from that place. This arrangement., has. .beeu: made, we have been informed, to prevent the .possibility of any; communication with SriJlhonaafl, where atj present there is an epidemic. j