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West Coast Times, Issue 227, 11 June 1866, Page 2

Postage via Panama.— Wo learn that thja postage on letters botweon Now Zealand and England will bo tho same by tlio Pauatnn route, as by tho Suez lino ; but whilo new§« paport aro transmitted froo by the latter, a postago of ono penny each will bo imposed on those, sont via Panama. . Tue Rkoext Land Salk in Southland.— Tho recont purohaso of Crown Laud in South' land, which brought to tho Treasury L 52.500, is said to have boon mado on bohalf of John Ellos, Esq., Kolvedon Hall, Essox, England, ' and Ponzanoo, Mount Gambior, South Australia, and tho locality of tho selection was on the Fivo "Rivers Plain, including a portion (>f Mo»jr* Connor and Austin's rut).

Fast Young Men in Wellington-— Acoordiug to tho " ludopondont," Wellington is troublod jnst now with tho pvesonco of flomo young bloods of tho Lord Watorford aohool. That journal, on Saturday last, has tho following: — "Wo rcgrot again to record the mol-praolioos of a soleot fow of our young blooda, ,vrho, after a fow weeks' interval of quiot, last Friday night vc-coinnioncod their punks on quiet citizous. They broko sovoral hotel lamps, dotached iumnnorablo gates, and bodily carried away a ladder from a houso now in courso of ropair at tbo oorner of Ohusned and Cuba streets. Time was when euoh actions wcro considered gallant achioremouts, but Mohawks aro no longer rooognißod, and goutloruou of tlio present enlightened ago see no peculiar fun, bravery, or pleasure, in robbing their sleeping neighbours. We hopo that anyone oaught in thd act of committing similar offcnceß to those recorded aboro, will be most severely dealt with, and thuß bo taught tho lesson that what wit leis boys think a lark, tho law regards as luroeuy. Wo eiijoy a joko us much at our neighbours, but wo boo uo fuu in pushing a froHo as far as a folony, anil rhall, thoroforo, not sympathtse with a lot of young rasoals who, with moro brandy than brains in their keada, prowl about the streets for tho purpose of insulting respectable women, and stealing quiet citizens' property."