The Weekly Times. “Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri." MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1867. NEWS FROM WELLINGTON.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 39, 23 September 1867, Page 235

The Weekly Times. “ Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri." MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1867. NEWS FROM WELLINGTON.

At a time like the present, when steamboats from other parts of the Colony to Hawke’s Bay are like angels’ visits, “ few and far between,” every scrap of news from another part is eagerly sought ‘after .and valued. It is something to be -able to note the arrival of a traveller overland, with an instalment of news of a day or two in advance of what we were in possession of, and who, we find, has handed to our local contemporary a Wellington Independent of tho 12th instant.

The news, after all, is not of muck interest or importance. The Government have succeeded in carrying their modified) financial policy, and seem to be working with a good majority ; they have passed a measure for adjusting the debts due to the general revenue from the several Provinces, and their gradual liquidation from the surplus revenues.

A hill for the consolidation of the outstanding Provincial loans, and a Public Revenues Bill, were alsu passing through the House, and the business of the session seemed to be fast drawing |o its close.

The address of sympathy to the Governor on his recall had been presented, and was met with a reply in which his Excellency said that he should remember and solace himself in after years with the language of the House iu that address.

Mr John Hyde Harris, a gentleman who has transacted the legal business of the Legislative Council, has, in accordance with a resolution of that Council, been made a Cabinet Minister, aud was sworn in on the 11th instant.

We are sorry to learn the demise of the New Zealand Advertiser, aftei an existence of leight years. It wat the organ of a reform party, so called, at the time of a struggle between the Superintendent of Wellington and the Provincial Council, and has maintained a creditable status amongst the journals of the Colony. The plant, &c.. has : been transferred .to other hands, and a new journal was to be started, on the 16th instant, under the title of the ** New Zealand Times,” a name that if it be borne out by correspond ing energy and skill will go far to give the new journal a position and guarantee of success. We may expect his Honor Mr Justice Johnstone in Napier by the upward mail steamer on the 2nd October, to hold the usual sessions oi the Supreme Court, the Bankruptcy Sittings in Wellington announced for the Bth having been postponed for that purpose. His Honor the Superintendent of Hawke’s Bay had made a temporary visit to the Province of Canterbury.