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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 268, 12 November 1868, Page 2

In consequence of the horrible Dews received by telegram this morning from the East Coast, it has been resolved that a deputation of gentlemen shall wait upon his Honor the Superintendent to-morrow morning, to request him to call a public meeting, having for its object to urge upon his Excellency the Governor the necessity of immediate and combined action on the part of the colony at large, in order to save further loss of human Hie and also the apparently fruitless expenditure of the colonial reveuue, as well as to consider the propriety of immediately despatching a vessel to Taranaki, in order, if requisite, to rescue the settlers of that province, similar interposition having proved of essential service on a previous occasion. We learn that Captain Spiller, who, since his return from the Front with the Nelson Contingent, has been endeavoring with very meagre success to obtain recruits for the Armed s Constabulary Force, and

was under orders from the Defence Office to proceed to Dunedin for the same purpose, has received a telegram from Colonel Haultaio, directing him to proceed by the first opportunity to Wangaoui. We desire to call the attention of members of the Volunteer Artillery Company to an advertisement which appears another column, calling a muster of that body for to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, for a special purpose* We understand that it is intended that the Anglican Church of St< Alban, at Appleby, sh^H be consecrated on Monday, the 30th instaut. We have been requested to correct an error which crept into our yesterday's notice of the Nelson and Raglan Breweries. Mr Levestam was not dispatched to Melbourne by the two firms conjointly, but by Messrs Hooper and 1/odson, but an arrangement was afterwards -arrived at, with their consent, by which the Messrs Harley were enabled to avail themselves of the results of his inspection of the various improvements which have beeri effected of late years in kindred establishments in Victoria. On and after the Ist January next one copy of each issue of any newspaper published iv New Zealand, may be sent post free from its publisher to any other newspaper office, if addressed to the editor, proprietor, publisher, or manager. This will be a great boon to newspaper proprietors, and through them to the public. We take the following items of interest from the Suez telegram of European news, published by the Melbourne papers : — Sir John Young, late Governor of 2Sew South Wales,, has been appointed Gover-nor-General of Canada, in the place of Viscount Monck, whose term of office has expired. Dr Milman, Dean of St. Paul's, is dead. The Rev Dr Douglas has accepted the Bishopric of Bombay. Reverdy Johnson has been instructed by the American Government to settle the Alabama claims according to his discretion. The Republicans carried the Maine election by a largely increased majority. The result is considered to have strengthened General Grant's chance for the Presidency. The French Atlantic cable has been commenced. The revising barristers have disallowed female suffrage, but reserved the question for appeal, if permitted, to the courts of law. Mandrake won the Doncaster Cup. The wool sales which ended on • the 30th September, show that 23,000 bales had been withdrawn. Prices obtained were from 2<l. to 4d. below those realised at the June and July sales. According to the following conversation, which took place iv the Legislative Council on the Government House Site Bill, Mr Stafford's qualifications as an architect are not considered of the highest order : — ■ The Hon. Mr Mantell said they knew very well that the building of a suitable residence for the Governor, with offices, outhouses, &c, as proposed by the bill, would amount to its being devised and erected after the plans of the Colonial Secretary;, and with the specimens of that honorable gentleman's architecture which they had already, hs thought it would be better to poll the whole colony iv order to obtain the services of some one competent to put a check upon the kind of residence to be erected. The Hon. Dr Pollen said that he might venture to express a hope that when a residence of this kind had been put up to be an ornament to the city of Wellington that 'the authorities would think il necessary to render the atmosphere of the town a little more fragrant than it was at present and more suitable to the existence of human beings.' It is reported that his Excellency the Governor manifests a similar dislike to a prolonged residence in Wellington, as was so uumistakeably expressed by the members of the General Assembly at the conclusion of the last session, and purposes to only remain in Wellington during the sitting of the General Assembly, and, after the completion of his contemplated visit to the South, to remain in Auckland till the Parliament is about to meet again next year. The Wellington Advertiser, alluding to this report, expresses a hope that his Excellency will not allow any Auckland predilections to interfere with his public duties as Governor, adding that the consequent division of the Executive impedes public business, the issue of Crown Grants, proclamations, writs, Orders in Council, and other business being, delayed through such absence. The Southern Cross, referring to the notorious Captain. Hayes, sayat-^-This es>

itraordinary individual, We learn by the arrival of the schooner Neva at Auckland from the South Sea Islands, is beyond all doubt alive; at any rale was so when the Neva left. Conflicting rumors, as our readers are aware, liave been circulated respecting this notorious personage; some reports asserting his death at the bands of Captain Coffin-, others reporting that he was yet alive, but where he existed no one at the time knew. Our Wellington contemporaries, more wise than ourselves, reported his death as an indubitable fact; but Captain Hayes has been good enough to furaish a letter disputing the statements iv the New Zealand papers, and of which the following is a copy:—' The Captain of the Neva will be good enough to report me as bound for the Savage Islands, and from there to Queensland with passengers. I am not dead> as the New Zealand papers say. (Signed) W. H. Hayes, Tahiti.' Captain Hayes has purchased the brigantine Samoa, and appointed Mr Hall, his late chief officer of the Kona, as captain. Captain Hayes's absence from the Islands is accounted for, according to his. own statement, by his having made a trip to Vancouver Island. The Tiraaru Herald states that the requisition from the electors ot that district, 'asking Mr Stafford to allow himself to be put in tiomraation to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr Cox as their representative in the General Assembly, assigns the following reasons for their request. :-r-* That you were the author of 'the Financial resolutions in 1856; that you have consistently maintained their inviolability before the House; that you have pledged yourself to maintain the unity of the colony, and at the same time to encourage districts newly formed and fast rising in importance in our legitimate desire for an extension of local government in a form suited to the present political and financial condition of the colony.' Edward M'Cartney, a young man of the Ist class Militia, has been brought be* fore the commanding officer at the Militia Office, Wanganui, charged with running away from the escort when warned for duty 5 and refusing to proceed to the Wereroa pa. In consideration of his haying been already imprisoned for three days, his sentence of seven days' cells was reduced to 96 hours* imprisonment.