COLONIAL ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 206, 19 September 1874, Page 2

COLONIAL ITEMS.

(FROM THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS AGENCY) AUCKLAND. September 12. Mil Beveridge, Provincial Solicitor, died to-day, after a protracted illness. Yatterina is scratched for the Canterbury Handicap, owing to the excessive weights. Te Whaka, the chief who murdered Nuka at Hokianga in 1868, and was sentenced to death, which sentence was afterwards commuted to imprisonment for life (he escaped from gaol three months afterward), and has been living concealed with his friends since, came into town to-day with the Hokianga Resident Magistrate, and received a free pwrdon. September 14.

The official scrutiny of the voting papers at the recent Waitemata election has resulted in the striking off of eighteen double votes from Von der Heyde, and twenty from Macfarlane, leaving a majority of 62 for Von der Heyde. September 15.

The captain of the Macgregor was summoned to the Police Court to-day for a breach of the 29th section of the Post Office Regulations, by refusing to deliver up certain mails in his possession, on demand being made by the Postmaster. Air. MacCormick, for the defendant, said the captain was certainly entitled to some remuneration for bringing the mails, but endeavors would be made to settle the case amicably by consulting Mr. Vogel. The charges against the captain of the Macgregor have been withdrawn, counsel for the defendant having stated that Capt. Grainger was instructed to act as he had done by the owners of the vessel, and that lie did not know that he was breaking the law; but he was now satisfied that he had been pursuing an unwarrantable course, and would give up the mails immediately. The A.S.P. Company’s claim of £267 against the Macgregor is in the bands of Mr. Whitaker, the solicitor, the captain refusing to recognise the claim. 10 p.m. Mr. Vogel addressed his constituents in the City Hall to-night. Mr. Russell took the chair. The hall was crammed, and there was barely standing room.

WELLINGTON. September 14. The N.Z. Times says that Mr. Vogel anticipates being back in Wellington wit hin five or six months from the date of his departure. Dr. Pollen will act as the head of the Government during Mr. Vogel’s absence. It is understood that Mr. R. J. Creighton assumes the editorship of the New Zealand Times at the end of the month. DUNEDIN. September 16. Alr. Creighton, editor and general manager of the Otago Guardian, will be succeed by Mr. R. H. Leary as general manager, and Mr. Vincent Pyke as editor. The Times thinks Mr. Vogcd’s absence, at the present time a grave want of judgment, and that the probabilites are against his ever coming back again. The Times is confident that if Mr. Vogel can make arrangements at home that will please and satisfy him, he will not return.

Holloway's Pills.— The slightest indisposition, so that it may not rapidly run its disastrous course from bad to worse, should engage t he immediate attention of the afflicted of all classes. A. few doses of these thoroughly purifying and strengthening Pills will always be beneficial when the- least disorder reigns, or when nervous fears oppress. Two or three Pills at bed time have the happiest effect in promoting perfect digestion, whereby the muscles are rendered more vigorous, the spirits more buoyant, and the entire frame more hardy. Holloway’s medicine increases the quantity of nutriment derivable from a given quantity of food, and so the quality of the blood is improved, the tone of every fibre throughout the body is heightened, and the disposition to fall into discaso is-reduced to a minimum.