T0WON NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 September 1867, Page 3

TOWON NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Highly eulogistic addresses have been presented to Sir George Grey by both Houses of Parliament. In reply to that of the Legislative Council be said; —“ Xonc can deny that a great and heroic work has been performed in this country. In the midst of difficulties of a moat unusual kind, men —many of whom were distinguished by birth and intellectual and physical endowments of no common order —have each in their vocation, by enterprise, toil, and suffering, continued through long years, laid the stable foundation of a great AngloSaxon nation.” lie concluded by expressing his sorrow that the ties which had so long hound them together were to he rent asunder, and his gratification that one of their last acts towards him had been to present him with an address of which any Governor or ruler might feel proud. The case of Walter Thicker is undergoing an investigation by a select committee of the House of Representatives, and the most firm believer in his guilt admits that he would not have convicted him on the evidence produced at the trial. There appears to he no doubt that Rayner was murdered on the night he returned from Hull’s, and not in the morning, as stated by the Half-caste witness, Hamilton.

Madame Carandiui accompanied liy her two daughters and Mr AValter Slier',vin, are shortly expected to visit Wellington. They are now giving a successful series of concerts at Dunedin. An address to His Excellency praying him to appoint a committee to report on the most advantageous lines for trunk railways, with a view to the reservation from sale of a portion of the unsold Crown Lands adjacent to such lines, has been adopted by the Legislative Council. It is reported at Auckland that a Bill is to be brought into Assembly for the purpose of constituting the island of Kawan, the property of Sir George Grey, into a separate Province. An action brought by Cudby against Valentine, in the Supreme Court, to tiy the right of way through plaintiff s section at the llutt, has been decided in favor of the plaintiff with costs. The “Advertiser” is defunct, and its successor, “ The Xew Zealand Times” is to appear on Monday next, 'flic “ Independent,” says that Mr J. Bull, the late senor partner, is about to emigrate to California.