The Evening Post. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1866.

Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 118, 27 June 1866, Page 2

The Evening Post. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1866.

We have been informed that we were in rrror yostrrd i.v, in o'atintr that the As-ombly would be opcmi'd on Saturday next Uy tinGovernor. The Assembly will lip opened on that dny by the reading of the proclamation, so a* to enable fh'» members to be sworn in and elect their speaker ; the ceremonial in which his Excellency plnys so conspicuous a part, taking plnce probably on Tuesday next. — It is a curious omission from the proclamation calling the Assembly together, that no hour is mentioned ; but what is still more curious is that the Advertiser of this morning has fallen into the same error as ourselves relative to the day of the opening by bis Excllenov. The source of its information is evidently ourselves, which of course makes m all the mnre sorry that our statement yesterdaj' whs not precisely correct. The ordinary mail steamer from the south arrivea here on Friday, but as that from the north is via Napier, the Airedale has been specially chartered to reach here from Auckland via the Cooks Strait Provinces on Friday, so as to avoid the necessity for any further prorogation. The business on the motion and order pnper of the Provincial Council for this evening is as follows :— Mr. Wallace, to move that tho petition with reference to the cricket ground be considered. Mr. Bunny, to move that there be laid on the table a copy of the agreement entered into by the Superintendent for the purchase of tho Wesleyan reserve. Report of the Board of Works Bill Committee to be brought up -, the spcond readina of the Bill to amend Scab Acts, and the third rending of the Wairarapa Race Course Bill. Licensing Bill to be committed. Last night a portion of the sea wall bordering on thn coil yard in the possession of Messrs. M'lntyrc, Stafford and Co , Custom House street, was undermined by the water dashing: up at its base, and fell bodily into the harbour It will be necessary to erect a fresh wall, for which the debris of the old one will form a capital foundation. The cost of the works falls upon Messrs. M'lntyre, Stafford and Co., the premises injured being private property. We would remind our readers that applications for new- shares in the Wellington Mutual Investment Society will be received by the manager up to Saturday next, after which period no new shares will be issued escept for realisation, For the future tho

entrance fee for in v« .-ttmcnt shares to existing members will be 30s per share, and to ( new members X' 2. It will Ik; seen by our report of the Provincial Council proceedings last night that the new Executive, which consists of Messrs I Borlini 1 , Driiiis-ficld, Ilickson, and Pearce, I are now fairly in harness, and that the work of thu session will not bo delayed by the necessity of their returning to their constituents on accepting oliioe. Ihe bill repealing the " OHluerd and Contractors Act," so far as I it affected the Executive, ran through all its stages, and was passed in the course of the evening, so that now, without further ad- ' journmeiits, the business of the Council can ' be proceeded with, the only change being that the Treasury benches will be occupied \ by the Opposition. How the Council is to ?U next week, however, we are unable to see, as the meeting of the General Assembly will call away Messrs. Waring Taylor, Borlase, Job nston, Stokes, Bunny, Brandon, and Brycc. j Several sections of hind in the Iliktitoto and Papakura Blocks, Ahuriri Plains, will be liiised by auciiou to-morrow. i The Thorndon Band of Hope held their u«sual weekly meeting on Monday evening, Mr. J. Mason filled the chair. The meeting was opened as usual with singing and prayer, after which several pieces and dialogues were repeated. It is pleasing to observe the onward pr gress of this society, no less than twenty-eight members having been enrolled during the last week. There were ninety children and adults present on Monday evening. The receipts of the Penny Bank amounted to £+ -is Bd. Mr ShcdraHi Jones was arrested at home at the suit of tiio Commercial Bank of New Zealand (Limited), fora debt which ho for- J got to settle in the hurry, of his departure from Otago. The claim was, however, satisfied. The briu Gazelle, Captain Tucker, left NuweistU' on the 9th instant, and arrived here yesterday afternoon, having anchored at tlie Heads on Monday last. The captain reports it as the heaviest passage he has GxpiTic'iced since he has been trading to New Zv'.ilaud, a period of twelve years. She | brings a oaryo of coal, consigned to Mr. Stafford. Early this morning the Gazelle drittid ashore almost opposite the Maori pa. In the course of the forenoon warps were got out, ami tlie tight little vessel rescued Irom her unpleasant position uninjured. A curious typographical error has crept into thu columns of our contemporaries, the Independent and the Advertiser. In describing thu Bazaar now being held in thu Odd Fellows' Hall, the former journal gave the name of the lady dispensing the good things of thin life at the refreshment stalls as Miss '¦ Charteii." This morning the Advertiser ciunu out with the same misnomer, the young lady's proper name being Mai tin, daughter of Mr. John Martin, of this city. We (Lyttelton Times) have received from Mr, G. Willmer a short account of a day'g oxpeditition to hunt and shoot wild bulls on the Urctna station. Mr. Willmer was accompanied oy a young niau named Richard Mill, and fell in with five wild bulls together. Mr. Willmcr shot one, and, reloading, fired a long slim at another and brought him to a halt; loaded again quickly, and, after warning Mill to get on 'the high ground, fired at and struck a third. The wounded brute ran duwn-hill, ' and rushing on SHU threw htm down, ploughing up the ground as ho went, but I'ortunateiy , trie horns were wide apart, and the only in- | jury sustained by Mill was a severe blow I from the forehead of the animal, which j bruifcd his back severely. It was v narrow i escape. Mr. Willmer soon dispatched the ' third bull, and wounded a fourth out ot the' J mob. In one day he killed eight wild bulls | from the back of a mare, trained by himself , to the work, and a perfect huntress. At a public meeting held in Wanganui on , Friday last, convened for the purpose of forming a Small Farm Association, based upon the rules recently passed by tho Provincial Council, there was an attendance of between sixty and seventy persons, nearly 'all of whom were men of the mechanical,! farming, and laboring classes. Mr. Walter , Taylor was elected chairman, and having j recapitulated the salient points in the de- | bates as to the price of land, which took [ j place in the Provincial Council, called upon j | any present who wished to address the meet- [ ing to come forward. Sir. Alexander Pyle moved the desirability of forming a Small Farm Association upon the basis of the rules recently passed by the Provincial Council,

and " that the object of the association shall be to form a Small Farm Settlement in the district of the Manawatu, or elsewhere within the province of Wellington." The motion was carried, a number of those present enrolled themselves as members, a provisional committee was formed, a sub-committee appointed, and the meeting adjourned. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, the Bench was occupied by Captain Sharp, J.P., and J. Carter, Esq., J.P. Two men, brought up on charges of drunkenness and vagrancy, were reprimanded and discharged, and a charge of wife beating against a mm named Isaac Lowrey was remanded until tomorrow, as was also one of stealing a pair of blankets from the Lower Mount Cook B irracks, for which crime a nuui nan.cd John Nieholl had been apprehended. The s.s. Wanganui, Captain Low, arrived from Wanganui last evening at 8..'40. >hu left Wauganui yesterday at 8 a.m., and towed out the schooners Yarra and Little Fn'l ; Oust off the tow rope at o,'iO a.m., and arrived as above. Had fine weather on the pni,s.u;e The Wanganui leaves again to morrow. The tender of Mr. Charles Roe for priming the Provincial Government Gazette, for the twelve months, commencing the Ist July next, has been accepted, and Messrs. J. and E. Bull have obtained the contract for printing all forms, &c., required by the province. The Cross of tlic 19th says:— On Sunday night, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Laurie was coining to Oneliuiiga from the Karaki, he was attacked by three men between Mr. Christie's store, Onchunga, and the . prings. One of them came up lo him and tapped him on the shoulder, and before he had lime to look round he was knocked down by the other two men, who took irom him all the money he luid about him, atter which they ran away, lie at once g.ive information to Corporal Ilastie, but it was too dark for him to identify them. We take the following from the Hobart Town Mercury of the (sth inst. :— " We learned from Dr. Officer yesterday that tin re arc upwards of six thousand young salmon in the ponds at the Plenty, and upwards of a thousand sea-trout, the result of the hatching of the second hatch of ova now going on there. 'Die rate at which the hatching is proceeding is not less than five hundred a day. When the hatching is likely to be over is not staled, but there is every prospect of its being much in excess of the former one in amount. We shall thus not only have enough to stock our own rivers, but those of our neighbors in time." The Grey River Anrus of the loth has tho following : — We are informed that Mr. Harry Jones, the propudor of the Mtumherikia store, was yesterday arrested by t!>e police, on suspicion of having purchased some of UIG gold, thi! proceed-, at the recent robbery of the Bank of New Zealand at Okarita. The accused ..will be brought before the Magistrate this morning.