WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 436, 7 January 1857, Page 7

WELLINGTON.

The Philip Laing arrived here yesterday, the 23rd, after a tedious passage of 146 days, having experienced a great many calms during the voyage. She left London on the 31st July, and reached the Cape on the 13th October, and set sail again on the 23rd. She went far south, and came up the west coast of the Middle Is? land. She had no sickness on board during her long voyage, and no deaths; there was one birth. She brings fifty-four passengers in all; and a large quantity of goods. Mr. Kebbell, formerly of Manawatu, has returned by her, and has brought with him the machinery for a stream flour mill, which, we understand, is to be erected on Te Aro Flat, at the small stream on the west side of the native pa.— Spectator, Dec. 24th, By advertisement in to-day's Spectator the affairs of the Bank of Issue are being wound up, and its notes, whether of Auckland or Wellington, will be paid on demand by the Union Bank of Australia at either of the above mentioned places.— lbid. We understand that a considerable number of the immigrants by the Oliver Lang- have been engaged for the Roads, and that a few have received employment from private parties. The immigrants have been comfortably housed, and and otherwise well provided for on their landing. They have been judiciously chosen ; and the men as a whole are an athletic lot, in the prime of life, well fitted for the subjugation of the wilderness. It is interesting to observe among their number one of the heroes of the Crimea, a young man who had been in the army, who is minus an eye, and a Crimean medal adorns his breast.— lbid. The show of meat at the several Butcher's shops this season has been more than usually good. Accustomed as "we were in the Olden Land to witness at the Christmas time spectacles of this description, we do not remember ever having seen finer or better meat. A sheep, bi*ed by A. Ludlam, Esq., taken from the run, and fed for a short time on pasture at the Hutt, weighed lOOlbs ; and one bred by D. Riddiford, Esq., and also fed at the Hutt, weighed lOllba. The lambs bred by Mr. Wall, on the Porirua Road, are the finest we have seeiV'here, and would do credit to a London market. The show of beef was also very line and we. are convinced could not be surpassod in the colony. Some of the bullocks were fed at Otaki, and others at Wairavapa. The proseut satisfactory result shows what"can bo done by feeding animals in paddocks on .irtiikiul grass, previous to ;

being sent to the butcher, and we should think that it would be the means of inducing our graziers to follow the example here set them. — Independent.