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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 708, 12 August 1869, Page 3

A Notorious Offender.—-Constable Lloyd (says the N. Z. Herald) on the 3rd mst brought up from the Thames a prisoner who has attained a criminal notoriety in New Zealand. Mo3t people remember the consternation winch pervaded the colony on the publication of the accounts of the frightful murders at Maungatapu, in which iiurgess, Levy, bullivun, and others were concerned. A person calling himself Moore, alias De Lacy, has been thieving at the Thames. He was recognised as bciiijj implicated in the murder of Mr Dobson, was one of the above-named gang, and has been committed for four months for larceny. He escaped the fate of Levy, but received two years' imprisonment at the same session ot the Criminal Court.

Fatai: Accident. —The N. Z Herald of the sth inst. reports an accident which occurred on the 4th, and terminated fatally. A bricklayer named Edward Btron was with Mr Heeney, contractor for the brickwork of the new buildings opposite tinMetropolitan Hotel, Lower Queen street. l\\' bricks were hoisted in a box, by a pulley. Just before dinner Birou was iih nig the box on the ground, iieeney receiving it at the top. By some mischance, jast as the bricks were being received above, the box tipped over, and several of the bricks fell on Biron's head, it. Dieting severe injuries, lie was conveyed in an insensible state to the Hospital, where he si.Ortly alterwards expired.

The Old Govebnment Cottage at Wellington.—The oid Government cot cage will soon bo a thing of the past, and having been courteously furnished with some reliable information on the subject, we are enabled to put on record the history of almost the only relic ofthnt English c mipany that really colonized Mew Zealand. The cottage was originally one ol •'Manning's" houses, and was brought from England in one of the first snips, the Aurora. Thy settlement being first made at the Hutt, the cottage was erected there; but when the site of Wellington was chosen, it was purchased in frame by Colonei j vVakefield for Ids residence as the priueipai 'agent of the New Zealand Company, in floating it from the Hutt, a portion of the wood-work became detached, and floated out to sea through the Heads. It was erected on its present site by Mr Ha), from the design and under the inspection of Mr Henry St. Hill, the architect of the Company, b.'ing thatched in regular English country fashion, with arusiie verandah, etc., and altogether formed a very pretty object on the newly settled land. Agr at tire iu 184 i, that Destroyed upwards ol 4rJ houses on the beach, caused the passing of the"Kaupo Urdi .auoe," by which thatched roofs were prohibited. i'lie cottage was therefore shingled, and an addition of several rooms was made to it. In 1847, the cottage and land were transferred from the JNew Zealand Company to the General Government of .New Zealand, and Lieut. Governor Eyre tooK possession ot tiie cottage as Ins residence. The la.ge rooms at (he buck were then added under the direciiou of Mr O. Mills. In 1805, la gu additions were made by the Government lor the accommod.tiuii of his Excellency Bir George Grey, who came to Wellington to reside as Gowrhor-iu-chief of iNew Zea land. In ltfb'B, it became the residence of his Excellency Bir George Ferguson Bowen, iho present Governor of jNewZieuland, and there, in April, 1869, H R if. the Duke ol Edinburgh, Ji. G., was entertained by the Governor, and resided whiLt H.M.B. Galatea remained iu Wellington. Whai now remains ot the building forms a convenient olfice for his Excellency and cue Executive council, Deng near the Houses of Assembly and the Government Oiliees it is intended that the new Government House, now in course of erecion on tiie site ot the old cottage, shall be ready for tne reception of his Excellency the Governor by the next session of the Assembly, in J une, 1870.- Wellington iudependeut, sth Augu»t.