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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 783, 26 October 1867, Page 2

The Town Board. —The aunual meeting of the constituency of the Town Board—our Municipal Council—takes place on Monday eA T ening, Avhen the annual report and other business Avill be submitted to the electors.

The Weather. —For late spring, the weather continues rather wintry in its character. During the last fortnight we have had a succession of boisterougggales, generally accompanied by rain.

Removal of hie Troops. —The steamers Rangatira and Ahuriri are to convey the several companies of the 18th regiment from Wanganui to their respective destinations. The contract price for the removal is about £2,700. The Rangatira will leave to-day with two companies—more than enough, Ave should say, for the size of the steamer. Rangitikei Militia. -In a General G©vemment Gazette of the 21st inst.,_ the following appointment in the Rangitikei Militia is made : Ensign George William Nicholls to be Lieutenant ; date of commission, 21st Sept. 1867. Ben Nevis Farm. —On Wednesday, Mr Chadwick sold this fine property, consisting of 400 acres of land on the Bonny Glen road, with farmhouse and outbuilding, for the sum of £2,100. The farm produce and stock fetched other £SOO.

The Tricker Case. —The meeting relative to this case, referred to by us on Thursday last, is fixed to be held at the Tutaenui school- house on the evening of Tuesday next. Great interest, we are glad to learn, is taken in the matter throughout the Avhole district. Clergyman for the Mataraava. —lt will be seen by our shipping intelligence that the “William Davie” sailed from the Clyde on the 2nd August last for Otago. Mr Wood, the minister appointed to the Presbyterian Congregation at the Matarawa, Avas undertook to be a passenger by this vessel, so his arrival may be expected any day.

Temperance. —How is the Total Abstinence Society getting on 1 asks a country correspondent. We cannot say ;we haA r e not heard of it for sometime, but no doubt it will be able to give a good account of itself. The Triune Society is also getting into life and consistency. Beer has fallen on unfavourable times, despite the cockney ban pronounced upon teetotalism— And bless their eyes Whoever they tries To rob a poor man of his beer.

The Census. —The nightof Thursday, the 19th of December next, has, we understand, been fixed for the closing of the census lists. The time for the delivery of the forms at the several dwelling-houses is from Monday, the 2nd December, to Thursday, the 19th inclusive. The divisions of the electoral districts will be made use of in compiling and classifying the information. At the same time and in the returns there will be tables to be filled in, consisting of agricultural and industrial statistics, and providing a source of information which the agriculturaland commercial community have long desired to obtain in a reliable shape. Sale of Plants, Shrurs, <fec. —Mr Hay of the Auckland N ursery will be agreeably surprised at the account sales furnished him by Mr Finnimore of the plants and shrubs he consigned to that gentleman, and which were sold on Wednesday last. Mr Hay never got such prices in Wanganui before. Mr Finnimore has kindly furnished us with a few of the figures : —Norfolk Island pines, 10s each ; azaleas, 7s 6d to 13s Gd each ; camelias, 5s to 8s each ; fuschias, 2s to 3s each ; geraniums, 2s to 2s 6d each ; cactus, 3s to 3s 6d each ; verbenas, 2s to 4s each, &c. It is pleasant to find our settlers expending their money and turning their taste in this direction. None more innocent and pleasant. Surveying in New Zealand. —A very pleasant letter, from our townsman, Mr George Frederick Allen, to his mother, appears in the Neiu Zealand (London) Examiner. It is written in the frank, chatty, confidential style which you not only expect but like to find in such corres pondence. Mr. Allen, we daresay, never supposed the letter would be printed, but his friends no doubt thought that it gave an idea of colonial life —so hearty and graphic —that it might be useful if generally known, more especially for the benefit of young men, surveyors and others, who coddle themselves up at home, and have no idea of the intense pleasure to be derived from the free unconventional life of a fresh new country like this. The letter is dated fromParawanui, and describes surveying under difficulties in that district.

Armed Constabulary Forge. — In a General Government Gazette of the 22nd October, there appears a proclamation under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, declaring that the “ Act provided for the establishment and maintenance of an Armed Constabulary shall come into operation on and after the first day of November next.” Also in connection with the same matter a Militia General Order is gazetted, declaring the following corps will be disbanded on the 31st October next, viz : —The Ist, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments of Waikato Militia. The Ist and 2nd Companies of Forest Rangers. The 10 (ten) Companies of Taranaki Military Settlers. The Hawke’s Bay Military Settlers. The Patea Rangers. The Wanganui Rangers. The Wanganui Yeomanry Cavalry. The commissions of all officers of the above corps, who are absent from the Colony without leave on the 31st instant, will lapse, as will also the commissions of those who do not, before the 31st December next, send in to the Defence Office a certificate of their residence within the colony. The names of Officers who comply with the above Order, and who are not appointed to any battalion or company of Militia, will be retained on the unattached list of the New Zealand Militia.

Crossing the River on the Wire. —Our readers will remember that M. Vertelli proposes accomplishing this feat to-day ; hour three o’clock afternoon ; if the weather is at all favourable. On Thursday we said it was the upper ferry wire that had been chosen ; we believe a change lias been considered proper, and the attempt will be made at the lower ferry. . Fire in Wellington. —About two o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, the Royal Tiger Hotel, corner of Taranaki and Abel Smithstreets, was seen to be on fire. The fire was in the upper story of the hotel, at the head of the staircase leading to the bed-rooms, some distance from any chimney, and from the part of the premises used during the daytime. There was a plentiful supply of water at hand, and the strenuous exertions of a number of willing workers ivere success ful in getting the fire under without any great damage being done.

THE CARANDINI CONCERTS. The concert on Thursday evening was under the patronage of Major Rocke and the officers of the 18th regiment, and the high estimation in which these concerts are held may be inferred from the fact that, in the afternoon, with only that morning’s notice, over 250 seats had been reserved. When the hour of the concert arrived the Odd FelloAvs’ Hall Avas crowded in every part, and Ave are bound to say that the performance well deserved such an attendance. It is of no use—not even complimentary—to heap up superlatives, and we shall not do so. It cannot be said that the Carandini family excelled former triumphs on this occasion, but it can be said with perfect confidence that they fully sustained their high reputation. One of the finest specimens of highly cultivated singing Ave are likely to meet Avith in the colonies was given by Miss Carandini in the Valse Brilliante £ L’Estasia, ’ which fairly brought down the house. But why particularise ? The ladies sing in time, they sing in tune, and what is as important as either and both, they sing with genuine and unaffected expression. It is almost superfious to add that all of them were applauded throughout. Miss Rosina’s singing of “I cannot mind my wheel, mother,” produced a very strong impression, while the earnest feeling which Miss Fanny threw into “Jessie’s Dream,” and stillmoreintotho “ Bonnie Hills of Scotland,” brought down a hearty, spontaneous, and enthusiastic encore —an encore Avhich Avas acceded to Avith the best possible grace. The Doric was a little defective, only those to the manner born oan possibly pick up its subtler touches, otherwise the singing was perfect. The glories of the sun were never flashed back from hills more grand or many-coloured than those of Scotland, and they cannot be wedded to other than music of a resembling character. And what a spell it weaves ! You see that hardcheeked Scot. Every feature of his face is relaxing, softening—-there is a mist in his eyes—under the music. He is no longer listening to it ;he is listening to—he is obsorbed in—reminiscences that the song has awakened within him. He certainly does not see the people or the fair singer before him, but though looking so steadily out into A r acancy Ave knoAV that there is something he does see. The sound of that airthese words —have carried him back mayhap half a century, and he hears the streams that went singing through his childhood, and he sees the reek rising from the cottage chimney where he Avas born as he used to see it in the early summer mornings long ago. What higher compliment could be paid to the artiste than the power to do this. The ladies at the close must have had something like a sufficiency of fioAvers to set up a horticultural show, in the profusion of bouquets which Avere showered upon them. Mr Sherwin in the “ Death of Nelson,” and in the part songs which he sustained with the others, Avas loudly and deservedly applauded. There was a concert again yesterday evening ; and to night, the performance is for the benefit of the Misses Carandini, and it, Ave understand, will close the series.

DISTRICT COURT. Criminal cases for trial at the District Court of Wanganui, on Friday, the Ist November, 1867, at ten a m. : 1. Regina by John Hurley v. James Crowther, obtaining goods under false pretences. 2. Regina by John Waters v. James Crowther, obtaining goods under false pretences. 3. Regina by Robert Christie v. Francis Maule, Alex. Maule, Henry Helson, and Hector Urquhart, of the schooner Kaiuma, for larceny. Civil cases for hearing on Saturday, the 2nd November, 1867, at ten a.m. 18. J. Danderson v. F. H. Watts —Claim £4°. . 34. John Pawson v. George Howe—Claim £l5B 4s. lOd. „ 31. James Bull v. William Crawford— Claim £74 14s. Id. , 32. James Bull v. William Meade— Claim £43 ss. 4d. 0 38. Robert Aitken v. Bennett & Symons —Claim £SO. 39 John McKay v. John Glasgow— Claim £35 19s. 2d. • 40. Thos. Gleeson v. William Williams— Claim £33. w , 41. Thomas H. Davis v. E. T. Woon and John Hurley—Claim £2B 9s. 7. 42 William Jones v. Bernard O Riley— Claim £35. „ , , . 44. George Howe v. Robert Aitken Claim £39. 45. George Howe v. John Pawson Claim £IOO.