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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 783, 15 October 1853, Page 3

Meeting op the Provincial Council.— It will be seen by an announcement in another column that His Honour the Superintendent lias appointed two o’clock as the hour for the meeting of the Provincial Council on Tuesday. Military. —The following announcements appeared in the London Gazelle on the dates specified; —May6, “ 58lh Foot, —Paymaster Serjeant J. 11. R. Harrison of the .GBlh Fool to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Tighe, promoted and June 24, “58th Fool, — Gentleman Cadet Dawson Town ley, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mayne, deceased.”. . . We learn that Captain Gootc, late ol’theoGlh Regt., is shortly expected at Auckland to rdieve Brigade-Major Greenwood, who returns to England. Three hundred men of the 99th have been removed from Hobart Town to Melbourne, and we have also hoard that an application has been made to ascertain whether,—if it should be found necessary further to strengthen the troops in Victoria,—a number of men from the 58lh, stationed here, could be spared for the purpose; but Ibis we presume was merely a precautionary inquiry, and the last accounts from Melbourne represented order as so far restored at the mines that it is not at all likely the necessity will arise A report bad obtained some circulation that the 65th Rcgt. were to bo removed from the South to Australia, lo relieve the 11th stationed at Sydney—the Csih to be replaced by the 89lh from home, but it did not rest on any conclusive authority.

Residf.net Magistrate’sCourt.—OnMonclay Inst, William Marsh, a private in the Armed Police, was charged with stealing a box of cigars, value 10s., the properly of Henry Russell. Mr. Merriman appeared for the defendant. After hearing the evidence then adduced, the case was postponed to Tuesday, and again to Wednesday, when the Court (the Resident Magistrate, J. W. Rain, Esq., and J. A. Gilfillan, Esq., being on the Bench) decided that there was not sufficicnl[evidenceon which to send thecaselo a jury, the prosecutor himself having admitted that lie thought the prisonermight have laken the cigars for a joke. The Commissioner of Police, however, declared that Marsh should be dismissed from the force. The inquiry it appeared had not been instituted by Mr. Russell himself, but by the Police.

The late Fatal Accident on the Waikato. —Wc are informed that the body of Mr. William Mclntosh (who, with his' brother Alexander and his son George, were drowned in the Waikato River on the loth nit.) was found by the Natives on the oOlh tilt. Mr. Mclntosh was for some time past Carpenter at the Rev. Mr. Maunsell’s Native Institution at Waikato Heads, and was well known in Auckland as an industrious and respectable man. We regret to stale that be has left a widow and two children wholly unprovided for. The other bodies, so far as we have learned, have not been found.