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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1030, 22 May 1869, Page 2

Marton Hall. — Two hundred and sixty shares have been taken up in this undertaking, and forty more are yet expected to be subscribed for. At a meeting held on the 19th inst, a committee was chosen to call for plans and specifications for the work.

Review at Rangitikei. — The volunteer and militia review, at Rangitikei, is to take place on Monday next, in Captain Johnston’s paddocks, six miles from Turakina on the road to the Tutaenui. The dinner and ball, at the Travellers’ Rest, will take place the same evening.

New Zealand Flax. — Seeds of the New Zealand flax (Phormium Tenax) are being sold in considerable quantities in London. Amongst the favourite varieties are the Brown-edged, Red-edged, Variegatedleaved, Black-edged, and the superb Scarletedged. Wool. — The Wool Sales which commenced on the 25th of February were concluded on the 24th of March, and closed at a general decline of 1½d to 2d per lb. At the commencement of the series the reduction was confined to ½d to 1d per lb. on Australian wools, but as the sales proceeded the depression became more marked and general. The Wanganui Times. — We have no intention of keeping up any discussion with the Times. Now and again we find the necessity laid upon us to set him right, but the patience of the public must not be overtaxed. It is painful, however, to find that our contemporary permits himself to make not mis-statements merely, which might be unintentional, but positive falsehoods, for which no amount of chagrin or disappointment can be pleaded as an excuse. Major Bigg’s Murderers. — The Poverty Bay correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay Times says :— “Peka one of Major Bigg’s murderes, arrived here this afternoon in the schooner Murewai from Poverty Bay. He has been transferred to gaol, and is to be carried to Wellington for trial. He may get off for want of evidence ; nevertheless, he assisted in most of the murders. A better system appears to prevail at present in Turanganui, murderers are not let off as formely ; the fact of Mr Wylie, a Government official, having shot the murderer of his son, and another assassin, has probably had something to do with the altered state of affairs.”

Election of Superintendent. — The election for the Superintendency of the Province of Wellington took place at Wellington on Monday, when a considerable number of citizens were present. Mr J. Dransfield proposed Isaac Earl Featherston, Esq., as a fit and proper person to be their Superintendent, and Mr Borlase seconded the nomination. As no other candidate was proposed, the Returning Officer declared Isaac Earl Featherston duly elected Superintendent of the Province of Wellington. Dr Featherston made a brief speech thanking the electors for the honour they had done him, but referring to no question of politics beyond the necessity of employing British troops to put down the war. Wanganui Steam Navigation Co. — We remind shareholders that the half-yearly meeting of this Company takes place on Tuesday next, and as there is considerable stir touching the management, it would be well that as many of them as can conveniently attend should do so. They can then hear and decide for themselves. The resolution to take steps tor winding up the Company, which has been talked about for some time, will in all probability not be insisted upon, but other matters of an important character may be brought forward. The Directors can and will have no wish to withhold the fullest information, and everyone must be equally anxious to carry on the Company’s affairs so as to make the steamer a benefit to the public and a profitable investment to the shareholders.