Local.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 163, 13 May 1859, Page 2

Local.

The Tasmanian Maid arrived from Wellington at'midnight on Wednesday, putting us in possession of English news to March lOfch. The Derby Ministry is out, aud Palmerston again takes office. War is still probable between France and Austria. Our Sydney dates are up to the 30th ultimo. The Australian market quotations of farm produce are at present discouraging. All anxiety for tlie safety of the steamer Wonga Wonga is now dispelled by intelligence received from Wellington, to the effect that she had been detained at Wanganui by the heavy sea on the bar, which prevented her from leaving the river,. The brig Robertina, which was signalled, all Wednesday, came into harbour yesterday. She is from Sydney, via Newcastle, with 32 horses and 150 tons coal on board—ll days from her last port, having lost eight horses from her original number of 40. She is bound for Otago. Lunacy.—A person presented himself at Mr. G. Seymour's, Victoria Hotel, Beach-road, on Wednesday night last, and having been provided with a bed, retired to rest. Some time after the inmates were alarmed by vociferous cries of " Fire ! fire ! " and upon finding the cries proceed from his room, it was entered, and he was discovered sitting up with the clothes wrapped round him, and the bed was being subjected to a clutching process witli his hands, he evidently being under the mental delusion that his bed was on fire. Having succeeded in rendering him tranquil, he was left again to sleep ;but the "household had scarcely retired before the fearful cry was renewed, and the unfortunate man jumped out of the window on to the roof of the house. Assistance ofthe police having been procured, he was taken to the look-up, and lodged there. It appears that he came here by the Mariner, and we believe his name to be Charles Mousley. He has since been conveyed to the Hospital, Waimea-road .[