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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 44, 4 January 1864, Page 3

We have been obliged, for want of space, to postpone a descriptive account of the races, also other local items. Masoxic. —A meeting of the Lodge Ara will be held this evening at \ past 7 o'clock. The Provincial Council, which adjourned on Monday last until after the New Year's holidays, will resume business this afternoon at :? o'clock, when the Provincial Treasurer. Mr. Daldj - , it is expected, will make his financial statement. VOLU.NTKKHS FBOSI TASMANIA. —Bv the brig which anchored in our fiarbour on Saturday, twenty-five volunteers, under the command of Mr. J. do Burgh Miller, arrived from Hobnrt Town. Up to the time of the sailing of the brig forty-one men bad enlisted, but nt the last moment, for what cause is not stated, sixteen of them backed out. The Anxiveksaky I!r.C!ATT.v. —We are glad to perceive that it. is intended at once to set about nutting arrangements for earning out our annual regatta. A meeting of those interested in this our nutionaiyiVc has been called for tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, at 7 o'clock, and will take place at the AVaitemata Hotel. Attemitkd Js'CK.vDiAiusM.—On Saturday night last, as three j'oung men were passing down Victoria Lane, they observed a blaze in an old unoccupied bouse at the back of the Victoria Hotel; they immediately ran for water and extinguished the flames without causing alarm. Upon examination a pile of straw and shavings was discovered placed against the side of the building, and had been fired only just before the arrival of the j'ouni; men. It was evidently the act of some evil-disposed person, and it is to be hoped that the police will be successful in bringing him to justice. But for the timely exertions displayed a conflagration must inevitably have ensued, which would no doubt havo carried with it the North side of Shortlandstreet and Fort-street.

Wool Sale. —Messrs. Styak and Hunter announce, we perceive, that they will hold their second and last wool sale for the. present season, on Friday the 22nd instant at 12 o'clock, and request that persons having wool to dispose of nt this sale will send advices as soon as possible. Messrs. S. and 11. havo provided good storage free of charge. Paymka't" ok Pensions. —The out-pensioners residing in Auckland will receive their pensions on application at the Albert Barracks to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock. Those at Onehunga on Thursday, nt the same hour, nt Scrgt. Cassin's cottage, and on Saturday, at the Commissariat oflicc, O!ahuhu, the pensioners living in that district will be paid at 11 o'clock also. Tub Deutokh' I'iukon. —We have received a letter fV'Hii a debtor now in confinement in the Auckland jail complaining that on ew i'oar's day the friends of persons confined there for debt wore not allowed to visit them, and that the turnkey lias received orders from the inilor to liavo nil tho wives of debtors visiting llicm scare.licd in the same manner as women sent there daily for drunkornesß &c. Our correspondent has attached an anonymous signature to tho letter, or we should have published it. for we can scarcely believe that the present. Inspector of Prisons would allow the wives of unfortunate debtors to be thus treated when visiting their husbands, and wo take (his opportunity of drawing his attention to t!ie fact, if it is .such. Jn debtors' prisons nl home visitors are subjected to no such annoyance, persons passing in and out. through the turnkey's room without let or hindnrnnco.

L'unuc Meeting.—We again call attention to tin- iinjioi tant public which takes place this evening, in tin , JJrunswiVk Hall, at seven o'clock, ami wliii.-li lias lucn called by the ncting .Municipal Council of Auckland, the City Board, to iiH'onl the citizens an opportunity of expressing llieir opinions in a series of nwii'iitions on the proposed change in the Ser-.t of Government.