TOWN NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 24, 17 June 1867, Page 3

TOWN NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Thursday, 6 a.ra. I.regret that I am obliged to send you my scribble a day earlier than usual. I regret also that your printer’s devil shoidd have made such sad havoc with my last. Your good natured contemporary in giving you a back handed slap on the occasion has really done you an unintentional service, for which I have no doubt you will feel grateful. : The necessity for a Lunatic Asylum in your district probably was first suggested to the editor during his temporary visit to it last summer, when in the opinion of others besides himself, such an institution was required. His Honor prorogued the Council on Tuesday. The speech he made on the occasion you will probably not have roomfor. Heapprovesof theconsolidating acts which lave been passed. He denies that Wellington has absorbed more than its fair share of the revenue, and he hints that the share of the general revenue now given to the Provinces is not their equitable share. He sets his face against anj alteration in the existing land regulation), and says, perhaps you will think truly that the “ Native Lands Act ” abrogated the financial compact made in 1856. As His Honor was leaving the Coirt House he was served with a writ in re the wharf extension contract. The amount sued for is upwards of £50,C00 and I dare say that the Messrs Keanard wish they may get it. His Honcr it is said leaves shortly for Manawatu and the Taups country. The unfortunate man who accidentally shot himself last week was named Dee and not Deans, as stated in my last.

Portions of a coasting craft have been picked up at the Heads, and though there can be no doubt that the portions picked up at Pahau, referred to by yon, belonged to the same vessel, not the slightest allusion to the subject is made in the shipping columns of either of your contemporaries. Affairs at Otago continue in a most unsatisfactory state, and it will not be till the Assembly meets that any improvement will be effected.

The gold fields in the Middle Island continue to pour forth their riches, and reports of new rushes are of daily occurrence.

It is said that Mr Barron, the efficient short hand reporter, and at present the editor of the “Advertiser” has been engaged by the Government as its reporter-in-chief. The “ Hawkes Bay Times,” with reference to this movement by the Stafford Ministry, recommends that instead of sending slips to the press they should issue the reports- in the form of supplements to those papers who might choose to order them. An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the N.Z.S.N. Company will be held at the Athenaeum, on Wednesday, June 19, at twelve o’clock, for the purpose of considering a resolution as to whether or not the Company shall be wound up voluntarily. I forgot to mention in my last that Messrs Kennard have given instructions for the sale, by public auction, of the whole of the material of the patent slip at Evans’ Bay. The date of the sale is fixed for the 28 th of August, and is on account of whom it may concern. Thi action has been taken with the view of fixing the amount of direct loss, besides other* damages, which the firm intend suing the Provincial Government for at law.