Karori and Makara.

Evening Post, Issue 73, 4 May 1865, Page 2

Karori and Makara.

-The following is the result of the polling on Tuesday for the above-named districts :— Gross poll for Wellington, Karori, and Makara. John Johnson, 70 ; C. Reading, 45 ; D. Fisher, 40 ; P. Monaghan, 37. Mr, W. Kobertion'a sale at the Hutt market was well attended yesterday, and a large supply of stock met with ready purchasers. Good Hacks were picked up at from XI B to £30i A lot of household furniture realised good prices. At the Wakamarina the population is on the increase, many having returned who left for Hokitika. Latest accounts from Picton represent trade almost at a standstill. At a sale under a distress warrant, about 1500 sheep— n>t clean, and in poor condition~averaged seven ¦hillings per head. Horses went at almost nominal prices. At the Police Office to-day, John Brown waa charged with drunkenness, and fined five shillings $ James 8. McKay, vagrancy, reprimanded and discharged ; John O'Connor, drunkenness and vagrancy, committed for seven days, with hard labour ; Joseph Beswick, drunkenness, seven days, with hard labour. To-morrow evening the Civil Ser rice Club trill give their first performance, and we are

happy to say the gentlemen amateurs will ren ive a brarty welcome from tbe citizens of Wellington, who fully appreciate their benevolent exertions in aid of suffering humanity. Ni'ither time nor expense has been spared to le/id to a. successful result, and the elitfi of the Empire City will, by their presence on this pleasing occasion mark their approval of tbe generous efforts of the Civil Service Cub. We (Independent) are informed that Major Edwards has relinquished the command of the Wellington Colonial Defence Force, and taken up his residence at Otaki, as Resident Magistrate of that District. Major Edwards is highly esteemed in Wellington, and many will regret his departure. His comlmnd has extended for a period of nearly two years, in fact from the formation of the forceyMie efficiency of which, and the high regararentertained for him by both officers and men is well known. Wo heartily wish him every success during his stay in Otaki. Captain Leatham succeeds in command. The Theatre Royal will be closed this evening, the manager having given it to the Civil Service Dramatic Corps for practice. The provisions of the new Licensing Bill for Nelson contains a new plan for dealing with djjipkards — " If any person shall have been convicted of drunkenness three times within six months, imprisonment, without the alternative of a fine, shall not, as now, be resorted to ; but the convicting magistrate or justices shall send to all holders of licenses [ the name and description of the person so convicted,' with a notice not to supply such person wijth spirituous or fermented liquors* and any publican who shall supply such person, after receiving such notice, shall be liable to a penalty of £5. The Canterbury papers state the building of a new Church of England at Opawa has commenced. The Nelson Examiner of the 29th ultimo, received by the Gothenburg, reports that a " strange steamer was seen dodging about by the Maid of the Yarra, between Hokitika and Nelson, and in Blind Bay." Tins is reported to be the Confederate war-sloop ghenandoah, on the authority of some of the officers of the Gothenburg. Lieut-Commander Waddell is said to be suffering from ill health. The ship Mermaid , Captain Rose, left Port Lyttelton on Saturday last for London. The Glunmark started on Thursday, and cleared the land on Friday. There is a race home between the vessels. The fourth number of Canterbury "Punch" j has been issued, doubled in size and every way improved. The cartoons are to the point, and afford much amusement. | As a certain debtor, a clerk named Buckley, was being convered to Lyttelton gaol on Friday afternoon, in custody of one of the bailiffs of the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, he suddenly, while passing the Mitre, refused to proceed any further, and while the bailiff was loudly demanding assistance, his prisoner contrived to effect his escape and get clear off, where, nobody could tell. The bailiff lost no time in reporting his loss to the police, who from " Informa" tion received," proceeded to a house in Dub-lin-street, where the runaway was found busily engaged in barricading the door with every available article of furniture at bis command. An entrance having with some difficulty been effected, the besieged resorted to violent measures, and flourished a carving knife with frightful menaces against any constable who should dare to lay hands on him, but was quickly overpowered and secured without much damage on either side. '-Press. The time for receiving tenders for leasing land on Watts' Peninsula is drawing near, and those desirous of tendering should bear in mind that the 20th of May will be the last day an opportunity for so doing will be afforded. Mr. Rowe, at Evans' Bay will give every facility to persons wishing to go over the land. The Evening Mail (Christchurch 1 ) understands that some persons living in the neighbourhood of tbe Lincoln road, in the absence of the ovevseer of the Little River tramway works, took horses and harnessed them to some chains with grappling hooks attached, and tore up the rails of the tramway lately laid down near Sunnyside bridge, in consequence of which the works have been stopped and the men discharged. Some time ago, the public were informed that the Government had completed a contract with Messrs. White and Wright, for the formation of part of the road to the West Coadc. This information was not given

openly by the Government, but somehow it oozed out. We should like to know what object the Government had for thus acting, and why they departed from their ordinary course of advertising for tenders for the work. At present, for aught the public know, they may be paying £10,000 a week for this work. The fair and open course is to allow others than the friends of the Government a chance of competing for Government work. The conduct of the present Executive has not been so very straight-forward hitherto that they can afford to do anything which has the appearance of a "job. " Not that we say this is one, but it would be better to act bo as to be above suspicion.— Evening Mail. Three new chandeliers, large and spacious, lately received from England, have just been suspended in the Provincial Hall, Nelson, They comprise one large, and two smaller lustres. They are bronzed, and the scrolled branches, which spring from gracefully formed centre-pieces of a compressed circular shape, are elaborately ornamented, and in various parts the darkness of the bronze is relieved by judiciously placed lines of gilt. The chandeliers, which can be made to suit either candles or lamps, are fitted up with lamps each of which have an obscured glass shade. On the three there are one hundred and eighty lights altogether, the central pendant having forty-eight lights in two tiers, and those at each end of the hail having each thirty lamps. The whole sheds a brilliant, yet, through the obscured globes, a softened light on the hall.