WELLINGTON.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 57, 13 October 1855, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

Our Wellington papers are to the 6th instant. Two vacancies in the Provincial Council, caused by the resignation of Mr. Wallace, one of the members of the town, and Mr. Renall, member for the Hutt, are about to be contested, and to judge by the tone of the newspapers, considerable importance attaches to the result. For the town vacancy, Mr. Woodward and Mr. King are the candidates, and as the first-named gentleman is one of the Provincial Auditors, with the large salary of £50 a year, he is cried down by the Opposition as a paid Government servant. Mr. King, the opposition candidate, being a lawyer, is of course attacked as an aspirant for the Provincial Solicitorship when it become vacant by the break-up of the present ministry. Mr. RenauTwhose resignation hascausedthevacancy in the Hutt, is a candidate for re-election, as it seems he only gave up his seat iv consequence of receiving an appointment as Commissioner to investigate the losses sustained by settlers in the native wars. Mr. Renell is" to be opposed by Mr. E. J. Wakefield, and we need say no more to show how bitter the contest will be, nor need we describe the criminations and recriminations with which the two journals abound, It may be all very exciting to those resident upon the spot, but these personal altercations are more painful than otherwise to readers living at a distance. The Independent is republishing from the Gazette some statistical tables, showing the present prosperous condition of the Province, but we cannot notice them further this week.

The steamer Nelson did not leave Wellington until the 12th of September. The cargo shipped by her at that port consisted of 89 bales of wool, 1| tons of flax, 4 cases whaling gear, 7 packages specimens natural history. There is a scheme mooted it appears for running a steamer between Wellington, Wanganui, and Napier, the latter place being the name of the shipping port for the Amuri district. The markets in Wellington have a downward tendency. Wheat had fallen to 13s. a bushel ; Hour was £39 a ton.