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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4961, 15 February 1877, Page 2

We are. authorised to state that Mr. W Hutchison, Mayor of Wellington, will be a candidate for the seat in Parliament which will be rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Edward Pearce. . . . The plans, and specifications for the extension of the Queen's wharf will be submitted to the Wharf Committee this day, and Mr. Climie's report on the city drainage will be placed before the City Council at its meeting this afternoon. The directors of the Wellington Gas Company, Limited, met at the company's office yesterday afternoon, when the newly-elected directors, Messrs. Krulland Hunter, took their seats at the board. The manager submitted a number of .plans'showing, how he proposed extending : the, company's premises so "that increased facilities would be afforded for producing an additional supply of gas, and he was authorised to proceed with all the work he recommended being done, and to push it bri as rapidly as possible; Several of the old buildings will have to be pulled down, in order to enable larger and more commodious ones to be erected-in- their place, so that the new .plant expected here next month may be turned to account immediately. It is hoped and believed that all the alterations and additions will be completed by the time Parliament assembles. A few cases of drunkenness comprised the business of the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

■-.. A man named George Moffat has been ar»J rested at Masterton on a charge of horsestealing. >!c>. % \ Mr. J.'M. Taylor has, we understand, been j appointed a certificated accountant in bankruptcy for the district of Wellington, under the Debtors and Creditors .Act»JLB.7.6» ... ..,*,.

The urinals for erection in various parts of the city, ordered .from" Home. Some;time ago, have been landed on the wharf, and will be shortly placed m position, A compendium in pamphlet form is being prepared, and will be issued from the General Government Printing Office,■« of the Counties Act, the Financial Arrangements Act, and Public Works Act, of last session, all sf which are connected,-with- our recent • legislative changes. We may venture to predict that the compendium will prove of great utility. A cricket match will be played on'the Basin Reserve to-day between some of the passengers by the Himalaya, with assistance, captained by Mr. Lloyd, and a team chosen by Mr. Armitage. The Himalaya cricketers are rumored to be something Out of the common. Wickets will be pitched at 12 o'clock, and both teams are requested to be on the ground sharp. ~ f'Frou Frou" did not draw such a large attendance at the Theatre Rojal last night as it merited, but the audience were highly appreciative. The acting of Mrs. Lingard in this piece was admirable, as may be well imagined, and Miss Morgan distinguished herself in some of the scenes, both ladies being called before the curtain. . The.performance generally, was a success. Dog owners beware; your canine pets (without collars) beware. The police have commenced to enforce the law, as witness a scene yesterday, a very big constable, light of foot, otherwise, Smart, and a small terrier, being the principal actors. The dog beat the constable ; but the owner of- the dog was -known, and he will, with others, have to contribute to the revenue of the country. A number of summonses have been taken out, which should be taken as a timely warning to the possessors of of as yet uncollared pups. The men John McCann and Owen Kane, who were sentenced to terms, of imprisonment at Jthe last Supreme Court sittings, and also condemned to be flogged twice, received their first instalments of the latter - punishment at 9. o'clock yesterday. McCann bore his whipping best. It is to be regretted that the brutal details of "a necessary and most salutary outcome of justice should last night have been printed with loathsome minuteness, in order to pander to a morbid appetite for news, or exhibit the peculiar literary qualifications of some writers.

An important sale of freehold sections in Vogeltown will lie held to-day at Mr. G. H. Vennell's auction room, Hunter-street. An elaborate plan" pii a large scale has been prepared, where parties can see at once the position of the sections. No "expense has been spared in carefully pegging each allotment. From the number of persons who have visited the property the last few- days, no doubt there will be some keen competition for some of the choice sections, and there are a great number commmanding magnificent views of the town, harbor, and streets. We understand a lunch in Laing's usual style will be given at one o'clock ; sale at half-past one. At the sale of sections on deferred payments, thirty-six sections, ranging from 116 to 200 acres each, were applied if and deposits of one-fifth of the purchase money paid thereon to the amount of' £1664.".:' The full payments for those sections, extending over five years, will reach the sum of £8320. Seven sections, of from 200 to 200 acres each, were also bought on Tuesday for cash at 20s. per acre. The total amount of cash paid into the Land Office on Tuesday ;was £2490 145., There are twelve sections on deferred payments not yet applied for. There;are also;twenty-seven sec-; tions of the 20s. land still "open for sale for cash. In many cases of the deferred payments sections there have been several applications for the same sections. _

The Army and Navy Gazette has the following:—" In the beginning of the year Captain Arthur Campbell-Walker.late 79th Regiment, who served on the Staff at Hjthe and Fleetwood, published 'a book: on whist, called ' The Correct Card.' . About the same time his brother; Captain. J.. Campbell-Walker, of the Indian Forest Department, who has given us admirable reports on of Great Bri-. tain and the Continent, was appointed Conservator of Forests'in-New Zealand by its Prime: Minister, Sir Julius Vogel. There is nothing remarkable in the two incidents,'but but of them the Otago Timf? ?r}deayprs to throw discredit on the appointment of Captain J. Camp-bell-Walker while attempting a mild form of joke. This it does in the following manner:— [The absurd paragraph which went the round of New. Zealand papers is quoted in full.]" The mistake made by thus mixing up the brothers would be simply amusing were it not for the motives • attributed to Sir Julius: Vogel in making an admirable appointment." .