WELLINGTON. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) July 18.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2188, 26 July 1864, Page 5

WELLINGTON. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ) July 18.

As I anticipated in my last, the business of the Pio vincial Council uas concluded on Fnday last, his Honor the Suiieuiitendeiit dehveieda2Hor.lga.tlon address of [;i eater length thin usual. There was a very long dibcufcsion ni the Council on tli.it day with leference to ceitnin funds which belong, 01 did belong, to the Wellington Bank, <md the Goveinmeiit came out of the maltei in a rat'-.er unsatisfactory manner. It appeal i tliat when this bank vrai originally stai ted, certain money vas placed to

an account for building premises for the pm poses of the institution, but for no me yeats passed operations had ceased, and the bank was a dcvl letter. Tins money was let out at mteicst, and it has now accumulated to n, sum of £1,000, winch has been and is now in the hands of tin re tiustces v ' z "'■'■'• Feithoiston, W. Fitsdierboi t, and W Lyou. Tl.c bank having ceased to oust, they did not Know to what purpose the funds in hand should be devoted, and after "-cxPial consultations they came to tlic conclusion that it should be given to some chaiiliblc purpose. It was thc'i decided th it it should bo paid o\ei to a Giammai School and College about to bo established m Wellington, and ii bill was accoidui»ly brought in to authouso the tuistecs mentioned — and who only fonncd a pmtion of the i.umbei — to p \y o\ er the funds in the m inner and the purpose agiccdupr.n. The bill parsed its fu-,1 lcidlngundei piotcst; Mr .lohnston, one of thetiiistees, who hid not been consulted on the mattu, stiongly objecting to its being allowed to piocecd fiulhoi until an nncshgation'into the ciicun stances of the case hid been made. A select coninlitteo was ac cordm«ly appointed to oinpuie into and lepoit upon the facts, ,uul on the last day of tho session they b'onnht ttn their 1 opoi fr Ho recommended tli.it tho iCl.Ol'O should be i eplaecd in the n imo of the 'I i ustces of the Savings Yi.ink, and th.xt tho i ilc of intoicst allowed on deposit should be incioisid to at loxst ■€o pci cent . and that it w onld be ad visible, vuth a mow to tho fntmo conduct of tho BsinU, tint its management be looiganised so as to yive thegio\l>t facilities and cncour.i foment to dejmsitois and to enfoice strict compliance with the Act pastel st.<3 ■3 on ;}, No f. Tlioio was a fmthei leeommendation to the eftect that no paid officci of tho Dank should hold oflice under the Pi ovmcial Go\ eminent. Tlie membeis of the Executive used e-\ eiy cnd&vvom to sheho this lepoit — whuh was beyond .' doi'bt a \olc of censuio on their conduct, — but without eftect, and it was ultimately adopted without a division. Shoitly befoie si\ o'clock lm Houoi the Supcuutendent euteied the Council Chamhci, and delncicd his closing speech. A memoiiU to his Kxcellcncy the fto\i,inoi is now being iiiuiicioif>ly siifnod in the Wui u \p i distucfc, eonip'aiimiq of tlie miptotccfctd s>t,itc mwhicli the scttlcis aie living in consequence of thci! 1 licinu, no place of iefui,o foi the women and children in the event of au outbicak \>y tbo natne->. Smno tune ago Maun Goitoli, the otheoi coinminding the uuhtio, and volii'itceis in the Wellington duluct, iceommended the election of stoekados at the vauous points, but foi some leason oi othoi his leconinicndation nc\ei iccei\cdany aitcntion fiom the Go\ eminent T foi w aid you a copy of tho memoiitl, m oidci tint join leidcis mly toe tint although Di Ftithcuton iuu be ([into satiblied of the kindly intentions of the natnea m this pio\mcc towaidb tlie Euiojieans, the tettloisof the W.m.u \\n have not ncaily so luuch f \ith in them Tho ■sittings undi i the Uebtoi-, and Ciedirois Act took place on l-'uday Liit, but thcio wcic no cases of inipoifcaiiee to bo he ml. Tho if ZS N Company ha\e obt lined the con hact fui tikmn thciiiAtcii.il foi tho now li^ht-housu to tho lbland ot JMan.a Tho pi ice is :23b jioi ton. The only othei tendei "as bj tho 'W.uig.imu Con piny, antlthcpiice asked w.vs bopicllunt; o\ei £i pel ton — a flight ihfuiei cc in so miiill a inattti A man of coloiu. named Joseph Oi iharn, lecrntly horn Auckland, has liolii committed to taAe his tml on a chai^o of stealing Tlie Waiir/tnuu C/uontt'e gives the fol'o\Mug items of news — Befoie t'ne hittlc ot II man i, Jvl'tcu^, the fanatic, ga\e auothoi man a sum of inono\ to Keei) foi lii'ii which iftei the engagement fell into the hands of a fiicndly uiti\c This man bc^.in to he libei ii m <_'i\n>n snnll sums of monc> a\\ i>, and the ciiLanistancc-. (\nted the cm losity of the native as->essoi-, who instituted an eii<pui \ , >nd cb tamed fiom the man Cd(>. '11ns su.n (!il\ mi^ht h.a\o kept cithci stueth, oi oponly as then spoil , but the> hindcd it o\ei to "\!i \A bi^e to bo ti.l.is mitted to the Piomiui.il Gn\u mnent The ois no «'onbt it will he letuuied to them , but the mudi nt h ]>!eisi!H_, \s <.lii«iii^ how c.iuful tlie fi ciid'v natives ne to ]>icscl vc thdi \o]m\ uion, so apt to be .as^ailid !>> si'ch men »s ~Sh I! ulase, vs ho-e tat incuts in the Council, by the b\c, vvoic lli uactciiscd hy Jlr Watfc.S'int <"'iil\ unp^fc t<i the If mi is, U't cvcecainulv injudicious when tlic c\po-ul snte ot thcioiintiv sott'cis >s consn'ci il.