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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4403, 30 April 1875, Page 2

The twenty-eighth Session of the Provincial Council will'be opened to-day at 2 o'clock, by his Honor the Superintendent. The customary aute-sessional'opinions - have been hazarded as to the nature of the business to be brought forward, the tactics to be adopted by the opposition, ihe duration of the session and so forth. About the fact that the session will be short there is a unity of thought. The Government intend to bring forwai-d no legislative business, in the purely legislative sense, and as to the' tactics of the Opposition, rumor has it that the proceedings will disclose a notable secession from the ranks of the Andrew-Bran-don party. Under these circumstances, there is every probability that the session will be short. We were misinformed yesterday regarding the Agent-General's telegram. It is thus interpreted by the Immigration Department, which is more directly concerned in the matter :—" London, 15th April,—The Carl Zealand, from Hamburgh, with 330 immigrants, for Napier ; the Countess of Kintore, with 137 for Napier. The Forfarshire, with immigrants for Auckland and Otago, sailed in March. Direct ships will sail for The Bluff in May, July, and September. Feathekston." The Hon. Dr. Pollen will be a passenger by the Luna to-day for Lyttelton. He is to accompany his Excellency the Governor ' to Dunedin, and while in Otago will in all likelihood visit the interior settlements. Mr. Lemon, general manager* of the telegraph department will likewise be a passenger. He proceeds to Resolution - Island, the intended sito of a central penal establishment, of which a survey is to be made for the Government, as noticed elsewhere' in our paper. The English mail via San Francisco, due here on the 28th' instant, was delivered at an early hour 1 ' yesterday morning by the s.s. Taranaki. An aggravated and unprovoked assault occurred yesterday morning on board the London barque Sunbeam. One of the seamen, named Baker, struck, the first officer, Mr. G-orrie, unawares, as the latter was walking aft from the main hatch, inflicting a severe wound on his face. Mr. ' Gorrie immediately turned round and knocked his assailant down, and then gave him into custody. The prisoner pleaded aggravation in court, but it did not avail, and he was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment with hard labor, and to pay costs. Jack Woods, a notorious offender, and formerly an inmate of the Wellington gaol, was committed yesterday at Wanganui, on a charge of cattle-stealing. : He will bo brought to Wellington to take his trial at the next Supreme Court sittings. A meeting of delegates from the various football clubs of Wellington will meet at the Pier Hotel to-morrow evening, to frame a code of rules by which all are to be guided. The new Bank Club has about thirty members on its roll. It is to be regretted that the City Council do not encourage enterprise which is beneficial to the public. Wo allude to Mr. Rowlantls' gas-light clock. We learn that Mr. Rowlands applied to the City Council for a free supply of gas, which might readily have been granted, considering thit in most towns . the City Council provides the clock and the light also. The illuminated clock has already proved a great benefit to the inhabitants of Te Aro.

The performances at the Theatre Royal last night were for the benefit of Mr. J. P. Hydes. It was found necessary to substitute " Bamboozling " for the piece announced, but the change aid not seem ■to disappoint the audience. The theatre, it is stated, is now likely to be closed until the arrival of Miss May Howard. We notice by a recent return, that during the past year the clearances of brandy from Charente for the "United Kingdom amounted to 806,476 packages, containing four and a half million gallons, of which quantity the brands of Hennessy, Martell, and Bisquit Dubouche and Co., the three largest manufacturers, furnished 532,842 packages, containing over two million gallons. " We observe," says the New Zealand Herald, "that the Royal Marionette troupe were passengers by the Macgregor from San Francisco for Sydney.". Mr. G. H. Vennell's sale of grass seed, originally advertised to be held on the Queen's wharf at two o'clock this day, will take place at one o'clock p.m. Messrs. Samuel, Ladd and Co. advertise in another column, for sale, an assortment of Chinese goods well worthy the attention of the trade.