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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 332, 1 February 1871, Page 2

We have no doubt it "will afford gratifl ation generally to find that Mr. Creighton has been returned bj such a large majority as Representative of the District of Eden to the House of Representatives. It was thought that some risk attended Mr. Creighton's candidature, owing to the old military spirit of the Pensioner Settlements, which naturally inclined in favour of an old brother-in-arms, and we presume it is to be taken as an indication of the change which the district has undergone in its residents, to observe a civilian elected as its representative. At the same time, the constituency is to be congratulated on the choice it has made. Mr. Creighton's political views with regard to the right manner of encouraging home industries may not be all that many would desire; but his undoubted ability, and the influence which the constituency of Eden ill by his hands exercise in the Q-eneral Assembly will more than condone for a little error in his political creed on the colonial question of the day—protection to native industries.

It "will be seen by an advertisement in another column that masters of vessels and others "wishing to be instructed in navigation, can do so on very moderate terms. Captain Burrell, formally of the ship City of Manchester, and recently trading to the Islands, offers most liberal inducements.

As the Music Hall is about to bs re-built, we think that it would be a becoming act on the. part of the trustees to include a refreshment room for Mr. John Copland as part of the building.' Mr. Copland spiritedly erected the attachment to the late building, and not having insured, lost it and all its contents to the amount of some £400. By giving Mr. Copland the free use of a similar refreshment room, the society will mark their approval of his former spirited conduct, to a certain extent recompense him for his loss, and at the same time provide a most necessary adjunct to a place of entertainment.

We observe that" Mr." Wetton has written to a morning contemporary denying that he spoke of having " struck the city from end to end with terror;" and that the reporter on the occasion re-asserts his statement. " Mr." Wetton is simply saying an untruth, as his braggadocio was heardby many; and his endeavouring to slink out of the consequences of his actions, is of a piece with his fencing to evade the Superintendent's charge of malversation of colza oil.

Much evil has been thoughtlessly done by playing at rewards in the Provincial Council. A satisfactory reward for the detection of the incendiaries was offered by the City Board and Insurance companies. Honorable members might have left well enough alone. By holding out promise of an increase, a reward haa been practically offered for withholding information ; and now, by the indefinite resolution of the Council yesterday calling on the Superintendent to offer a substantial reward, the evil is intensified. It should either be proclaimed at once that no further reward will be offered, or the full amount should be known, so that the influence of the reward should operate on the minds of informers.

The schooner Tauranga arrived from Tauranga this afternoon, with several passengers. She brings no news of importance.

A very singular circumstance occurred in Freeman's Bay on Monday. Mr. Arthur, the auctioneer, noticed that his dogs had barked up some animal in his garden, but imagining it to be a fowl he merely called them off and paid no further attention. A few hours later, however, his servant discovered the body of a kiwi lying dead in the garden, without any bruise or mark of violence about it. How the kiwi could have got into the garden is the puzzle, as the ground is surrounded by a high and impenetrable fence. However, the bird has been handed to Yandle, naturalist, for preservation, and is a remarkably fine specimen. The supposition is that the bird escaped from some place of confinemen.t, and obtaining an entrance into the garden was killed by the dogs. We are informed that during the night of Saturday last or early on Sunday morning, some person or persons entered the garden connected with the Lunatic Asylum, and carried off a large quantity of vegetables of different kinds, including about two sacks of onions. This is not the first depredation of the kind, and aa the loss falls upon the unfortunate inmates of the Asylum, we trust the offenders may be found out and suitably punished.