The Evening Post. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1866.

Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 80, 14 May 1866, Page 2

The Evening Post. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1866.

The P.N.Z. and A.R.M. Co.'s s.s. Airedale, Captain Meikleham, from Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and the Manukau, arrived yesterday at ten a.m. The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Ladybird, Captain Kreeft, from the South, arrived in this harbour yesterday morning at 11.15. The R.M.S.S. Madras, with the outward English and European mails, in addition to her valuable freight from Sydney, takes over 100,000 ounces of gold, and about 66,000 sovereigns from Melbourne. Her gold and specie freight is worth over £620,000 Barlow, the " Inimitable," gave his farewell performance at the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday evening, when the house was well attended, and the audience evidently gratified with the entertainment. We understand Mr. Barlow leaves Wellington to-morrow, pleased with the result of his vinifc to the Empire City. Mr. Creagh, chief officer of the s.s. Claud Hamilton, was presented by the passengers of that vessel with a substantial token of esteem on Friday last on the occasion of quitting the ship. The following is too good to be lost. We (Lyttelton Times) clip it from an exchange paper, and respccttully call the attention to it of certain persons who feel disposed to spread in the newspaper line :— " A young man, who actually desired wealth, was visited by his Satanic Majesty, who tempted him to propose his soul for eternity if ho could be supplied on this earth with all the money he could use. The bargain was concluded ; the devil was to supply the money, and was at last to have the soul, unless the young man

could spend more money than the devil could furnish. Years passed away, the man married, was extravagant in his living, built palaces, speculated widely, lost and gave away fortunes, and yet his coffurs were always full. He turned politician, ami !>ribed his way to power and fame, without reducing his pile of gold. He became a filibuster, and fitted out ships and armies, but his banker honoured all his drafts. He went to St. Paul to live, and paid the usual rates of interest for all the monejr he could borrow j but though the duvil made facua when he came to pay the bills, yet they were all paid. One expedient after another failed, the devil counted the time, only two years that he must wait for the soul ; and mocked the efforts of the despairing man. Ono more trial was resolved upon, the man started a newspaper 1 The devil growled at the bill at the end of the first quarter, was savage in six months, melancholy in nine, and broke, dead broke, at the end of the year. So the newspaper went down, but tho soul was saved." Robert Hart, Esq., Revising Officer, will hold courts for revising the lists of voters for the districts of Wanpanui and Rangitiki, at the Resident Magistrate's Court House, Wanganui, on the 2nd of June next. A temperance meeting will be held tomorrow evening, at seven o'clock, in the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom. The Jjord Bishop of Christchurch is at present on a visit to Dunedin, with a view of conducting the arrangements for the establishtnent of the Episcopate in that city. Subscriptions to a considerable amount have been received, two sums, amongst others, of £1000 each having been obtained from the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund and from the | Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. An extract from a letter from Mr. Selfe was read at the meeting of the Church Property Trustees, stating that the writer was about to have an interview with Lord Lyttelton on the subject. His lordship takes a deep interest in the promotion of the undertaking. The Primate of New Zealand intimates that he expeots to raise £1600 for the purposes of the bishopric. The endowment of the see is required, we believe, to be £5000. Of this sum, judging from the list of subscriptions, a considerable sum must have been obtained. —Lyttelton Times. Respecting the Calcutta Sweep at Canterbury,the Times observes :— " This announced speculative drawing, on the Grand Steeplechase Handicap, came off on Wednesday at Barnard's Repository, having filled up with thirty-five members. The event being still in abeyance for a fortnight, the price realised for each of the sixteen horses engaged was not very high, as there are all sorts of chances of mishap before the final acceptance, but all found friends at a tolerable figure. Weka, from Auckland, was made first favorite ; whilst Camel, Lottery (also a JNorthener), Dolphin, Musician, Jessie, St. Michael, and Locomotive, followed on in about the order named. Next Tuesday, a | second sweep is to be drawn, whin the feeling of owners and the public may be more fully developed." Mr. John Collins, an exceedingly clever delineator of Irish character, has made a most successful debut at the Royal, Melbourne. Both as an actor and singer, Mr. Collins, in his peculiar line, is perhaps the best who has appeared on the Melbourne boards. The pieces in which he played were " The Irish Ambassador," and " Teddy the Tiler " Quite a furore was created by his singing of " The Widow Maohree," which he was called upon- to repeat no less than five times.