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Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 284, 30 November 1878, Page 2

Our supplement to-day contains :—": — " The Hon. Colonel Whitraore on the Defence of New Zealand Ports," "The Anti-Chine«e Movement in Sydney," "A Visit to the Chinese Quarters in Sjdney," "The Afghanistan War," and a quantity of other reading matter of general interest. The Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington for the month ending to-day amounted to £12,208 14s. For the corresponding month last year it was £15,071 4=3 sd. We understand that Mr. R. J. Duncan has received instructions from tha Government to prepare plans for the sale of a portion of the Thorndon reclaimed land. It is understood that the sale will take place either about the close of January or beginning of the month following. During the month of November, 1878, which expires to-day. 86 births and 28 deaths were registered in Wellington, and 26 marriage certificates were issued. In another column will be found full particulars of the unfortunate wreck of tbe favorite steamer Taranaki, of which we were enabled to publish the bare fact in our last evening's issue. Tbe ill-fated steamer struck on the Karewha Island, which, in the New Zealand Pilot, is described as follows : — " Karewha Island is small, rugged, and about half-a-mile in circumference, and about 350 feet high ; it is six miles N.W. by N. from Monganui hill, off Tauranga Harbor ; and is three miles from the main land, with 14 fathoms of water between and within one mile of the island." This is the second time that the Taranaki has been wrecked, for it will be remembered that on a former occasion she struck on a rock in Queen Charlotte Sound, and sank, remaining under water for more than a year before she was raised and refitted by tbe Wellington Steam Navigation Company. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. Mansford, R.M., James Finlay was find 20s, with the alternative of 14 days' hard labor, for using obscene language in the public streets. J. Burke, charged with being drunk and incapable, was discharged with a caution. Another instance of honesty being munificently rewarded was furnished to us this morning. A recent arrival, said to be a son of Esculapius, had been overtaken in the rain or some other kind of moisture, and got into a cab. After he left, tbe cabman found that his fare had dropped jus purse, which; it is said, contained something like a hundred pounds. He gave bis horse in charge to another, and hastening after the stranger discovered him, and returned the purse. He was rewarded with a half-sovereign ; about a half per cent, on the lost money. Some mercantile people think the finder was worth five per cent, at least. Jabez Murphy, the man charged with a criminal assault on a little girl named Cowper, daughter of the postmaster at Grey town, has been committed for trial. He was brought to town and lodged in the gaol to-day. Last night the Rev. T. Harrington administered the ordinance of baptism by immersion to four candidates, three of whom were females, at the Bethel, Herbert-street, which was kindly lent for the ocpasjon. Mr. Harrington preached a sermon against the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, founding his remarks upon Mark xvi., 16— "He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned." It will be seen by an advertisement in another column that Mr. F. de J. Clere has commenced the practice of his profession as an architect in this city. Mr. Clere was a pupil of Mr. E. Scott, the well-known church architect, and subsequently became chiefassistant to Mr. R Withers, Fellow of the Rnyal Institute of British Architects, and one of the leading London architects, which position he held until he came out to New Zealand Since his arrival Mr. Clere has been in tbe Colonial Architect's office. A meeting of the Board of Governors of tbe Wellington pollege wa9 held yesterday afterDoon at tbe Provincial Buildings. Present — Mr. Brandon, M.H.R. (in the phair), his Worship the Mayor, Hon. W. Gisborne, Rev. J. Paterson, and Mr. H. Jackson. A resolution was passed expressing regret at the resignation of Sir W. Fitzherbert, and a ho Da that he would reconsider his intention. A subcommittee was appointed, consisting of the Hon. Mr. Gisborne and Mr. Jackson, to make arrangement^ for leasing the College reserves under tug powers giyen by the Wellington College Amendment Act, pasged during the recent session. The B.oard also resolved to take advantage of tbe power conferred by the same Act, of investing money belonging to the College on mortgage, and it was decided so to | invest tbe two sums of £500 each bequeathed to the Board respectively by the Hon. W. B. Rhodes and Mr George Moore, for the endowment of scholarships. The Board then adjourned. The steamer Go-Ahead will probably leave to-morrow for Napier, taking the balance of