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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 42, 20 February 1869, Page 2

His Excellency the Governor is disappointed at the resolution of the Imperial Government to leave no troops iu the colony. He expressed his chagrin to a Wanganui gentleman a few days ago, aud said that the two companies in Wanganui should be the last to leave. He had done his best not only to retain the 18th in the colony, but also to get Imperial assistance in the suppression of the rebellion ; his Ministry were opposed to his views, and nothing could be done, Poor Sir George* thou art indeed a cypher —we shall not make thee the first president of our new republic. —Wanganui Herald. Erom the Auckland Herald, of the 6th instant, we learn that the merchants and importers of Auckland are very much dissatisfied with Messrs Shaw, Saville, and Go's line of packets —no fewer than thirtyseven of them having signed a document appointing Mr W. K. Graham, of 23 Great St. Helen's, Loudon, to agree with some first-class shipping house to lay ou a new line, by which they pledge themselves to have their goods shipped, and also to load such ships back to Loudon in preference to any others. . The reasons for taking such decided steps to get rid of Messrs Shaw, Saville, and Co., are alleged to be ' many and weighty, including enormous rates of freight Cat least over fifty per cent, over those to Australia), gross over measurement of goods, old rotten ships, and the loss suffered by the present monopoly.* Two strange accidents have occurred iu Canterbury. A man fell in front of a reaping machine, and had his lower jaw cut off by the knives. Another was gored by a bull, whose horns went in at one side of the chest and came out at the other side. King Charles XV of Sweden has recently refused to sigh a death-warrant against a woman convicted by one of the tribunals of poisoning. His Majesty declared that for the future no capital execu-i tion should take placo in bis kingdom, and that if the death-penalty were . not abolished by law he desired it to cease ia fact,