NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, May 3, 1854.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 913, 3 May 1854, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, May 3, 1854.

The intelligence received by the Marchioness is of a highly interesting character ; the City of Sydney had arrived at Melbourne with English dates to the 22nd January giving further and important particulars of the progress of the Turkish war. The Russian troops had been again defeated by the Turks and this victory~fra'd "KacTfhe; effect ,"bf Raising the spirits of the Turks, and of remove ing the gloom occasioned by the disastreus affair at Sinope. The English and French fleets had entered the Black Sea, and c rery thing seemed to indicate the near approach of a general war.

It is currently reported that an opposition ■will be offered to Mr. Revans's re-election as member for the Wairarapa District in the Provincial Council, and that Mr Pharayzn, an independent and highly respected stockholder in the district, will come forward as a candidate with every probability of being returned. The electors of the district, after the exhibitions made by Mr. Revans in the Council during the last" seesion' do not feel very proud of their quondam member, and, (though in the opinion of the members of the Provincial Government, he may.be good enough for the Executive Council,) are resolved for their own credit he shall no longer misrepresent them. At the last election, if it deserved the name, just four persons voted for Mr. Revans, who who was returned, simply because no other candidate appeared in the field to oppose him.