PROPOSED PUBLIC RECEPTION AND BANQUET TO THE GOVERNOR.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3057, 14 May 1867, Page 5

PROPOSED PUBLIC RECEPTION AND BANQUET TO THE GOVERNOR.

I A mjwting of gentlemen was held on the 6th iist., at which it was agreed to give his Excellency Sir George Grey a public reception and dinner upon his arrival in Auckland. The resolutions adopted by that meeting were forwarded to his Excellency through his Honor the Superintendent, who waited upon the Governor at EAwau ; and the following reply addressed to Mr. 0. A. Harris, was laid before the committee at a meeting held yesterday. The reception and dinner will take place on Monday next, and a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements :— Kawau, May 10, 1867. My Dear Sir, — His Henor Mr. "Williamson gave me your note enclosing ths resolutions passed at a meeting on the 6th instant, of which the Hon. J. Salmon, M.L.C., was chairman. , , , I need hardly say that I feel very much obliged to yourself and the other gentlemen for the trouble taken in this matter. The large number of natures in the North of New Zealand, and the importance of the questions in which the European and Maori populations are interested, must necessarily require the Governor frequently to return to Auckland, and to remain there for some time. I therefore regard jnyself rather as returning home than as paying a visit of ceremony to a portion of New Zealand I have not seen for a considerable period of time. I also naturally feel unwilling to occasion the trouble to others which from your letter it appears I am likely to do. On the other hand, my desire is in no way to disappoint the inhabitants of Auckland, or to fail to fall in with their wishes. I have fully explained all this to the Superintendent, whom I have also told that I hope to retch Auckland upon the 20th instant j and I shall now leave the matter in his hands, and in those of yourself and the gentlemen who have taken an interest in the matter i It was with great pleasure I again received a letter from you, and I »eg to thank you for the trouble you have again taken for me. — Faithfully yours, ' G. Grey. G. A. Harris, Esq.

The ' Airedale,' -which arrived at the Manukau early yesterday, brought us our Southern exchangee, together with later Australian news. The poll for the election of a candidate in the Provincial Council for the electoral district of the Northern Division will take place to-day. The following are the polling-places :— At the North Shore, Pilot-station, Flagstaff; Little Muddy Creek, Mr. John McPike's residence j Hendersons Mill, Hendersons Mill ; North Shore, Mr. Heed's resi. dence, Stokes Point; Weiti, Mr. Lloyd's barn; Mahurangi, the public hall ; Mahurangi, the old survey-station ; Waiwera, the Post-office ; Matakana, Mr. Munros store; Helensville (Kaipara), the Court-house ; Pitoitoi (Riverhead), Mr. Keogh's house. The nomination of candidates to serve in the House of Representatives for the electoral district of Raglan will take place on Thursday, the 23rd instant, at noon, at Mr. A. Buckland's yards, Newmarket, and the poll, if necessary, on the 4th June. The usual fortnightly meeting of the City Board of Commissioners was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. Bain in the chair. The business disposed of was not of much importance. The proceedings are reported elsewhere. We are authorised to state that, at the meeting of shareholders of the Bank of Auckland, convened for Wednesday, the 15th instant, an adjournment will be proposed, in consequence of the investigating committee not being fully prepared with their report. His Honor the Superintendent, accompanied by the chief Paul of Orakei, and Mr. J. White, Native Interpreter, left town yesterday, in the s.a. • Lord Ashley,' for Tauranga, for the purpose of meeting his Excellency the Governor. "*A detachment of 147 rank and file of ET.M. 60th Regiment were marched into the Albert Barracks yesterday, in command of Captain Doran, having arrived during the morning in the s.s. 'Airedale' from Taranaki. They were also accompanied by the following officers : — Captain Young, Messrs. Worthington and Broomfield, and Dr. Will (50th Foot). Last evening, the Rev. S. Edger delivered an interesting and able lecture on "Ecce Homo, and the current of religious thought," in Parnell Hall. The lecture occupied two hour* in its delivery, and the rev. lecturer treated the subject in a fair and impartial spirit. He was frequently applauded, by a large and attractive auditory. His Honor the Superintendent of Napier, Donald McLean, Esq., was a passenger in the c.a. 'Airedale,' which arrived from the South yesterday. A young man named William Hooper was apprehended by detective OHara yesterday afternoon, on a charge of embezzling the sum of four pounds, the property of his employer, Mr. Potter, chemist and druggist, Queen-street. He will be brought before his Worship at the Police Court to-day. We have to acknowledge the receipt of ss. from Mr. flicks, jeweller, to the subscription fund for Mr. Taylor'i family. The annual meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society was held in the High-street Chapel last evening, and the usual report presented for adoption. The speakers consisted of ministers of various denominations in the city, as will be seen from the report given elsewhere. A seaman of the ship ' Regina,' named Charles Walton, was yesterday given into custody by Captain Linthorne, of that vessel, on a charge of refusing duty. Mr; Stackpool E. ODell will deliver a lecture this evening, at the Young Men's Christian Associationrooms, at 7 o'clock, on "Phrenology, and Total Abstinence." The following are the divisions of the subject to be treated : — Mind,lits pre-eminence ; tendencies, man's accountability; alcholic drinks, their Influence on the organs, and on generations yet unborn; early training, character; important organs, viz., conscientiousness, concentrativeness, combativeness, self-esteem, veneration, benevolence, how cultivated and how injured ; trades and professions for children ; and, in conclusion, a public examination of youths and others. At the Police Court, yesterday, six persons were punished for drunkenness, and a man named Henry Lamburgh, alias Lambert, was fined 103. and costs for using obscene language in Queen-street on Saturday last. The annual general meeting of subscribers to the Orphan Home, St. Stephen's, Parnell, will be held on Friday evening next, at Hoffmans Assemblyrooms, when the report and statement of accounts for the past year will be submitted, and gentlemen elected to serve on the Board of Management for the ensuing year. A selection of music will be performed, under the management of Mr. J. Brown. A man named Robert Horne, who has recently been liberated after undergoing a term of imprisonment, was apprehended last evening on a charge of being unlawfully in possession of a horse and a pair of boots, taken from a livery stable in town, without the consent or knowledge of the owner. A meeting of the journeyman tailor* of Auckland will be held to-morrow evening, at seven o'clock, at the Queen's Head Hotel, Viotoria-street, for the consideration of important business. Eight seamen of the barque ' Island City,' named William Wilson, J. McCarthy, Charles Lee, Edward Martin, Daniel O'Connell, J. Taylor, Richard Booth, and Lewis Johnson, were yesterday given into custody by Captain Wolffe, on a charge of disobedience of lawful commands on board that vessel. We (Taranaki Herald) are informed that it is the intention of the General Government to form a road connecting this town with the Patea. The route, however, does not seem to have yet been decided on. The Ngatiruanui, at a meeting held at Whakamara, decided to make peace. The first barrel of petroleum, local produce, has been shipped at New Plymouth. Two soldiers of the 14th Regiment, now in Melbourne, named William Iliffe and William Hodgkin, have been sentenced, Hodgkin to three years' and Iliffa to two years' imprisonment, for assaulting and robbing a man at Carlton, three weeks ago. We kavemuch pleasure in again reminding oar readers that Professor Stephenson who is not unknown to fame as a wizard and a necromancer of the highest order of merit, will make his first appearance before an Auckland audience, this evenning, at the Odd Fellows' Hall, the performance commencing at 8 o'clock.

A meeting of the unemployed of Auckland has been convened to be held this day, at noon, on the cart-stand, Queen-street, for the purpose of appointing a deputation to wait upon his Honor the Superintendent to solicit that additional public works may be proceeded with, in order to give employment to persons out of work. A portion of the One-tree Hill reserve, nuburbs of Auckland, parish of Waitemata, county of Eden, containing 100 acres, which was published to be sold yesterday at the Waste Lands Office, was not offered for sale, having been withdrawn from the market. A penny daily paper, to be called the Evening Herald, is to be published at Wanganui. The Oamaru Times states that there is now, at Mr. George Sumpter's, a very large collection of moa bones, many of them in a perfect state of preservation. Several of the leg bones, which generally are of immense size, still retain their natural covering of skin. The bones wera discovered on the lands of Mr. Peter Miller. " We understand," says the Argus, "that Mr. and Mrs. O'Shanassy are expected to return to the colony in July next, having engaged cabins in the steamship • Great Britain,' which will leave Liverpool about the 9th of next month. Mr. O'Shanassy has been in Italy for several months past, for the benefit of his health, which is now much improved." An appeal has been made in Sydney for contributions to a fund to defend Mr. Eyre, late Governor of Jamaica. We heartily hope it may be successful, and think the object is one to which New Zealand might appropriately contribute. — Wellington Independent. The English Neiocastle Chronicle says:— "Mr. Henry Thurstan Holland, of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed legal adviser to the Colonial Office. The office, which has been created by the present Government, precludes the holder »f it from practising at the Bar. The salary is £1,200 a-year." We regret to learn that Mr. Beaumont, of the Lyster Troupe, has lost the sight of one eye, and had that of the other seriously damaged, from a late gun accident. A telegram from Melbourne of the Ist says :—": — " The concert to-night, given by Mr. Lyater, for the benefit of Mr. Beaumont, is expected to bo the most brilliant affair of the kind that has ever bten seen in Melbourne. It is expected that the attendance will be very great." Mr. Crosbie Ward left in the ' Mataura on the Bth, on a visit to England, whither he has gone to recruit his health, which has suffered severely lately. The Wanganui Times of the 3rd instant contains the following :— " The long drought and consequent absence of floods in the Patea river have rendered the entrance almost impassable. Three small craft were bar-bound when Captain Bascand left on Tuesday last, and even the s.s; 'Waipara,' with her small draught of water, was stuck ten or twelve hours. During the last eighteen months we have repeatedly urged upon the General Government the necessity of improving the entrance to the Patea river, but nothing has been done or appears likely to be until the entrance becomes quite closed up. While the entrance remains as it now is, the owners, of vessels must charge a high rate of freight, and the loss to the Government and settlers will far exceed the amount necessary for the improvement of the navigation of the river. We would request our Wellington contemporaries to press this subject upon the consideration of the Government." The Council went to work on the 30th, and, after some questions were answered, the Government brought forward their first measure, an Act to appropriate the sum of £32,000, to meet the expenses until the end of next month. The Council refused to allow them to introduce this bill, and on a division being taken, the numberß stood 20 to 6. The Provincial Treasurer announced that, in consequence of such a vote, he must tender the resignation oi himself and his colleagues to the Superintendent. This he did on the following morning, but his Honor declined to accept it, and sent the Executive back to the Council to say that any Ministry that came into office must bring forward a bill of this nature ; whereupon some hon. members growled a little, and passed the bill through all its st»ges the same evening, accepting a classification of the item Public Works into eight parts, as a sufficient amende for their practically rescinding their vote of the previous evening. Next day the reply to the address was carried, and a committee was appointed to inquire into the Patent Slip matter, which, having formally commenced its work on Friday, adjourned to yesterday, when it held its first meeting in public, having chosen that way of transacting its business in order that all might be considered fair and aboveboard. No other business of importance has yet been transacted by the Council. — Wellington Advertiser, May 8. The Taranahi Herald contains a very full account of the petroleum springs, and the prospects of their success. This is written on the occasion of the shipment of the first barrel from the Alpha Well. It is argued that even if the oil should not prove suitable for lighting purposes, though that is not anticipated, it will be a valuable article of trade > as a lubricator for steam-engines, In order to test its adaptability for this purpose, a barrel of it is to be sent to Capt*in Benson, with a request that he will cause it to be tried in the Panama Company's vessels j a barrel will also be sent to Sydney for trial there, and at Melbburne. It is now used to lubricate the engine and machinery at the Company's works, and is found to answer admirably, not dogging in the least. — Wellington Advertiser. The Sydney papers received by the ' Mataura are full of details of encounters between bushrangers and the police. The outlaw Tommy Clark and his brother John were captured by a body of constables after some sharp fighting, and brought into Braidwood. They are to be sent to Sydney foe trial. On the 30th ultimo, 15 prisoners, while being conveyed from Bathurat to Sydney, were placed for the night in the lock-up at Pulpit Hill, when, according to the report of the constable, "they rushed out and caught the two constables by the throat, and were strangling them. Sergeant Casey, who had been Bleeping in the lock-up, instantly sprang up and shot the man who had hold of constable Madden. Sergeant Casey then shot the prisoner Thomas Kerr, and fired at the prisoner Southgate. The pistol hung fire, and, when it did go off, wounded constable Madden, who had been pushed towards Sergeant Casey. Sergeant Casey fired again, and drove thirteen out of the fifteen prisoners into the cell. He then found out that Madden had been mortally wounded by his fire. Madden died at 10 o'clock this morning before the arrival of the doctor. Sergeant Casey fired five shots : one shot struck Kerr in the arm ; one shot glanced off Kerrs head ; one shot struck James Morgan in the hip ; and two struck poor Madden. One of the prisoners (Rutherford) has just been arrested, and brought in by senior-const»ble Macmanamy, and the Hartley and other police are on the track of the other absconder, Holmes. Sergeant Casey is so agitated at the dreadful occurrence that he is unable to make the proper report." — Wellington Independent. As a specimen of how an Auckland journal can descend to what it knows to be an untruth in order to influence the people of that province against the Government which Auckland was a main instrument in putting into office, we give the following remarks which open a leading article in the New Zetland Herald of the 23rd ultimo :— "Amongst the sums set apart out of the three-million loan by the Loan Appropriation Act, 1863, was one of £75,000 for the construction of a main line of electric telegraph between Invercargill and Auckland. The line of telegraph between Invercargill and Wellington has been now for some time opened and in full working — the extension of that line between Wellington and the Waikato has, as our readers are well aware, not yet been commenced} and this, too, in the face of the fact that one portion of the loan is made a charge exclusively on the Northern Island provinces, while the provinces of the Middle Island are charged, along with those of the North, with only a proportionate share of the remainder of the loan . Now, the Wellington journals furnish regular exchanges to their Auckland contemporaries, and the writer of the above paragraph must have seen frequent allusions to the progress that was being made with the telegraph line towards Auckland. The work has been going on for months, and over a week ago tenders were calU d for the erection of posts across the Napier border. Even now the wire is being carted away from town to be stretched along the poles already erected. We never entertained a very high opinion of the Btanding of the New Zealand Herald, but we certainly did not believe that any journal would fall so low as to use such glaring untruths for party purposes. As a pendant to the above, we would ask our Northern contemporary ta read the following extract from the Wairarapa Mercury of last Saturday : — "The poles, wires, and insulators have now been placed on the ground the whole distance between Wellington and Masterton, and are all ready for erection. We have to caution parents to warn their children nob to meddle -with the insulators, as their doing so will subject the contractor and the public to serious inconvenience, and render themselves liable to heavy penalties. We learn with regret that the insulator*

laid down between Kaiwarra and Ngahuranga have been wantonly destroyed, which will prevent the line being completed to Mastertou uutil uew insulators are received from England." — Wellington Advertiser, May 6. A telegram received in town on Friday states that a great rush has takeu place to Woodstock, about eight miles up the Hokitika River. The prog, nects are stated to be very good, and a new township has already been established there. — Ibid. Saturday, the 13th instant, was the day set apart by the Government for giving the blankets to the blacks in the Illawarra district, and on that day a pretty fair muster took place at the Court-house, Wollongong, where the distribution took place. Including young children, about fifty were present, though not more than forty-two blankets were given out, the fact being known that many of the district blacks, by reason of the tempestuous weather, were not present. Many of those relieved were from the Shoalhaven side, and properly had no chum for consideration here at all, but they were relieved. It was somewhat startling to observe the great number of white children accompanying the elders. Several if properly dressed, would with the greatest difficulty, in feature or figure, be distinguished from many Europeans. It is a grave reflection upon the Government that some means cannot be adopted whereby young aboriginals like these should be taken into an institution, and have inculcatedin early life lessonsof auseful and moralnature, ratherthan be permitted to travel about seeing and learning nothing but drunkenness, fighting, and sin. — Illawana Express. Meisrs. Turrell and Tonks will sell to-day, by public auction, at 11 o'clock, at the residence of Mr . Edwards, Grey-street, the whole of his houiehold furniture, cooking utensils, &c. Messrs. Bright and Co. will offer for sale to-day, by public auction, household furniture, plated ware, &c, at the house next the Scotch Church, Alten Road. Messrs. William Hunter and Co. will offer for sale to-day, by publio auction, at their yards, dairy cows, store stock, sheep, pigs, &c. Mr. William Rowe will sell to-day, at 12 o'clock, at the Government store, Merceitown, Waikato, a quantity of General Government stores. Mr. Henry Ridings will sell to-day, by public auction, at 11 o'clock, at the late residence of Dr. Nicholson, Queen-street, Onehunga, the entire of the household furniture and other effects; also, at 1 o'clock, at the native hostelry, Princes-street, boats, spars, timber, firewood, &c. Mr. C. Stichbury will sell to-day, at 11 o'clock, a large quantity of fancy goods, perfumery, stationery, &C. Mr. Alfred Buckland will sell to-day, at 12 o'clock, at Macky's Wharf, Otahuhu, boards and scantling ; also, at 2 o'clock, merino wethers, steers, &c, Mr. L. W. Eaton will sell to-day, by public auction, at 11 o'clock, at the stores of Messrs. Eaton and Dewolf, apples, pears, jams, onions, &c.