THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 166, 31 May 1873, Page 2

THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

Mr J. Wil'iainsou addressed a large meeting (considering the population) last evening^ at Ngaruawahia. He was cordially received. Mr Byron was voted to the chair. On taking the presidency he said he 'lad felt some hesitation in taking the oh.ur ; but he \va3 glad to see so large a meeting Mr Williamson, as (.light be seen by advertisement, was a candidate for the Superintendency of the Auckland province. Circumstances compel us to hold over till no^:t issue, the able address of Mr Williamson We may add that he was moat cordially received and attentively listened to by the most numerous and influential meeting we remember to have seen in Ngaruaw ahia.

Dr. Conv.eui, who was amongst the Einporor Napoleon's Litest attendants, was also one of his very earliest friends, liaving been one °f * ue legatees of his mother's will ma l« .'it Au'iiomlieig. in Switzerland, in 1837, in which Hort.-u-.e, .if er lowing her remembrance to Dr. (Jonneau, expiessed the vk-.li " quo inon tils puishe le garder pres de lvi," a wi^h iulfiPed to the \cry last instuit of her son' 1 ! life. Wju'i- \er m>y h.i\c been the Emperor's faults or vuiii, )uj cc) l imiy seems to luve had the art of keeping de\oted f>illo\veis., and e\cn Englishmen have been amongst those whom at times he fascinated Amongst Louis Napoleon's uorks there n a curious little piece in whifh ah En^hsh (,'ommodoie, — Commodore P. is the only name _;iven him, — n&rrates the clfect produced upon him by Louis .X.ipolcou'b presence at a dinner, given at, we suppose, the Army and Navy Club, "Le Club do la Marine," during his stay in Knglaud between 1846 and 184!) The Punch's health was drunk, and he was expected to p^upo-ie in leply the toast of the English Navy, — .111 cmb.in assint; toast for the heir of Napoleon. He pi'opoajd the and added in a melancholy voice trembling with emotion :— " Ido not apeak here, gentlemen, of your warlike triumphs, for all your memories of glory ,yd to me subjects for tears ; but I speak with pleasure of the fairer and more durable glory which you have acquired by cariying eivi'isation to. a thousand barbarous peop'es, in the farthest portions of the globe." Commodore P. records that the whole assembly was moved by this (no doubt carefully me litated) directness and simplicity, but it indicates, we think, the nature of the fascination the lace Emperor exercised over his personal followers, — who were few, and comprehended only men accessible to his Napoleonic ideas He brooded over one gi eat historic Hgure and the proper mode of commemorating it, till lie becmie magnetised himself, and able to m^giifiise others, with the historic associations it embodied Yesterday afternoon a fearful fire broke out on the premises of Messrs liiston. Cooper, nnd Dunderdalo, spice, seed, and rice merchants, Fleet street, Liverpool, which in about two hours destroyed tho whole of the very extensive premises, only a portion of (he front wall being left standing. Work wns in full operation nl the time of tlio breaking out of the fire, and urn en women were engaged in the parcel packing room. On the alarm being gnen, two of the women and a nvw escaped bv a st.Mvue from the building; but fire wo'nen i nj.ujji'd with I'u'in. m their terror und excitement, i u>.hcd towards the gener il pueknig room, and m their frantic olKirls to escape were tuil'ojitcd b\ the smoke, and after\wird-, I'ieir b >dies wero ejmplelely e'larred. heing guile uu ret* >gui3iible when reeoun««l. The lire wns so rapid thul m hull ii m hoin the ro)f fell in, and tho nh >lo of the premise*, »\< • 1 mrr j'i 0 || ('i-i^-lite \ards in lrontnge, were lom;'ifel\ u'ilte.l willrn ujmil two lioiim. Tho building and ■urn » i 'in-, i! strojed iiiveslunulolat £3(.»,000. — D.r>j/ Xeiov, I'cUi u iry 13.