WELLINGTON.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 358, 29 March 1861, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

[From the Spectator.)

The following is the state of the poll at four o'clock as furnished us by the Polling Clerks. The poll will be declared by the Returning Officer. on tlici 26th inst., at the Resident Magistrate's Court:— Spinks 292 Taylor 283 Hunter 262 Turnbull 239 Crawford 228 Rhodes 227 Wallace.. 204 Allen 196 Borlase 195 Duncan 391 Fawcett 182 Stokes 181 M'lntosh 167 Carpenter 159 Q,uin 139 Martin 90 Pharazyn 70 Edwards........ 48 Laing, withdrawn. Hutt Election.—The returning officer having read the Writ authorising the election, called upon lihe electors to nominate their respective candidates. Messrs. Fitzherbert, Barton, Buck, M'Ewen, and Whitewood, were then severally duly proposed and seconded, and there being to other candidates brought forward in opposition, the Returning Officer declared these gentlemen duly elected as members for the Hutt District in the Provincial Council. The newly elected members having severally returned thanks to their constituents for the honor they had conferred upon them in returning them without opposition, a vote of thanks to the returning officer terminated the proceedings, and the meeting separated. The nomination for the Wairarapa District took place at the School House, Greytown. A considerable number of people were present. Mr. C. R. Carter, Captain Smith, Messrs. Joseph Masters, and H. Jackson were duly proposed and seconded as candidates. The shew of hands being declared to be in favor of Mr. C. R. Carter and Cptaiu Smith ; a poll was demanded in be half of the

other two candidates. The following was the final state of the poll at Greytown and Masterton :— Greytown. Masterton. Total. Carter -52 25 72 Smith 25 32 37 Masters 18 4 22 Jackson 17 3 20 We have received a provincial Government Gazette containing the following appointments by his honor the Superintendent :—William Fitzherbert, Esq., Provincial Secretary; Jonas Woodward, Esq., Provincial Treasurer; A. de B. Brandon Esq., Provincial Solicitor ; W. Fox, Esq., and John Johnston, Esq., to be members of the Executive Council.

The general regard and esteem in which the colony generally and more especially the provinces of Wellington and Hawke's Bay, hold the name and family of Mr. St. Hill, requires us not to pass over in silence the death of the head in that family. Mr. St. Hill senior had attained the great age of 78, and died in full possession of his mental faculties, and in Christian peace and hope, after a long life devoted to the public service of her Majesty's ordnance department, and spent in the West Indies, Ceylon, and Hong Kong. In all quarters of the British dominion he has left friends to regret his loss, and deeply sympathise with his relatives, especially the absent ones, who will more keenly feel their separation from their aged father at the time of his decease.

(From the Wellington Independent.)

Flax.—The first session of the new Provincial Council will necessarily be a short one-— necessarily so, because the meeting of the General Assembly cannot long be postponed. This is the only reason why we now call the attention of the members of the desirability of obtaining a select committee, as early as possible in the session, to consider if any aid can be rendered to Messrs. Bentham and Storey in their flax works—such a question is a most legitimate one, as evinced by the rewards held out, during several years past, under the sanction of the General Government. Messrs. Bentham and Storey, being men of no capital, are unable to complete the work they have been engaged on for aome months past, as satisfactorily as is desirable ; and efforts were being made the other day to raise a trifling loan (£IOO or £200) to purchase and fit up a small steam engine required to work the machinery already erected. We have seen their samples and listened to their explanations, and think their method one of such simplicity and expedition as to be highly worth encouraging. Weahave seen samples and listened to sanguine experimentalists many times before; yet because others have failed, it does not follow that Messrs. Bentham and Storey will do so too. Some may think it more a matter for private enterprise than public aid; but looking to the example of the Government and to the source of wealth which a remunerative method of preparing the indigenious flax would prove, we think we are fully justified in bringing the matter at once under attention.

Fatal Accident.—We regret to learn, by the overland mail, that Miss Louisa Lumsden, daughter of Mr. William Lumsden, linakori Road, was last week thrown from her horse, on the Rangitikei road, and sustained such injuries from the fall as to cause almost instant death. Miss Lumsden was riding gently along the Rangitikei road, when the horse bolted, and the sad catastrophe occurred.

The Wellington Natives. —We have seen a letter from Taranaki dated March 1, writtee tosomenativeshere.in which endeavors are made to induce them to assume a hostile attitude— taunting them with being idle, dwellißg among herds, yet too lazy to milk them, and suggesting that if they do not know how they should send to Taranaki and learn.