TABLE OF DISTANCES. FROM WELLINGTON TO WANGANUI.

Evening Post, Issue 163, 16 August 1865, Page 3

TABLE OF DISTANCES. FROM WELLINGTON TO WANGANUI.

<-" Miles. Wellington to Ferry House, Porirua... 12 F rry to Blackleg, Horokiwi Valley... 10 BlHkie's to Deighton's, Paikakariki... 10 Deighnon's to Waikanae 9 Wakonae to Otaki 12 Otiiki to Monawatu. - 18 Munnwdtu to Uangitiki 16 Ran^itikl to Bull's (inland) 12 Bull's to Turikina 18 Turakina to Wanganui 13

That gallant old veteran Sir John Burgoyne has very properly been made Const.iKe of the Toner, ln place of Lord Combcrmere, dtuonsod. A more fitting appointment cou'.d not have been made. He has been serving his country everywhere for ages. He entered Hie Engineers in 1787. and was at Malta, in Ejjypt, at Corunna, ami all through the Peninsul.i, ami in North, America. Then, like tlie rp«t of v«, he Irul pea-e (the care of public works in Ireland) until the Crimean war broke out, and then he went out as lieutenant «eneral, and did admirable service tiwnrds reducing Sebastopol. Four Points of a Case.— An eastern editor says tint a man in New York got himself into trouble by marrying two wives. A western editor replies by assuring his contemporary that a good many men in that section had done the same by marrying one. A northern editor retorts that quite a number of his acquaintances found trouble enough by baruly promising to marry, without going any further. A southern editor snj'B that a friend of his was bothered enough when simply found in company with another man's wife. Riches are given to make life pass comfortably j but life is not given oaly to amass ric'ips.