ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT.

West Coast Times, Issue 219, 1 June 1866, Page 2

ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Wo havo received tho following additional polling roturns : — Akaroa. Groymouth. Moorhouso 21 4 Lanco 44 1 Travors 1 0 Wo bolioro tho roturns from tho othor Westland districts were received lust night by Mr. Sale, but wo wero unablo to obtain tho particulars.

Wo understand that tho boatman named Richard Banner, who succeeded in picking up tho man capsizod in tho rivor on Wednesday last, was presented with a sum of monoy raisod by privato subscription, which, wo boliovo, ho intends gonorously to hand over to tho unfortuuato owner of tho boat capsized, and who lost his liltlo all by tho accidont. Mr Banner, who porformed this highly croditablo act is an old Sandridgo waterman who bus nettled among us. Wo nro glad to lourn that tho powerful and useful steam tug Lioness is for tho futuro to bo employed exclusively in towing and transhipping passongors and oargo from and to tho roadstead. Considorablo inconvenionco has boon occasioned to tho trade of tho port, and wo believe, some loss to tho owners of the Lionoss, by hor divoraion from .hor logitimato (radio. Tho agoncy of tho tug has boon transferred to Messrs Covoy and Grilles. A Court of Revision, for tho electoral distriot of Westlaud, is announced to bo hold at tlio Court House, Ilokitika, on Monday, the 11 day of Juno inst. Tho naturo of tho sevo. ral failures of qualification, in rospoot of which tho names of claimants and others will bo oxpunged from tho list, will bo found sot forth in tho advertisement in another column.

Tom Taylor's groat comedy of "Tho Contested Election," will be produced at tho Prince of Walos Theatre to-night, to bo followed by tho furco of " 13ox and Cox."

The overland mail arrived yestorday aftornoon, bringing Chmtehuroh papors to tho 28th. Their contents nro vory unimportant. We learn from Dunedin that tho sale of Iho William Miskin did not tako place on tho day advertised, tho biddings not realising tho rosorvo of £3000.

Wo talco tho following from the "Argus" of tho 21sfc ultimo :—": — " A prolimininary investigation was hold on Saturday in the Insolvent Court, in tho estato of Nathan Samuel Brann, which promises to eventuate in proving to bo ono of tho most extraordinary insolvonoy casos that havo occupied tho attention of tho Court and tho public for some yoars."

Tho " Now York Tribuno" of tho lGth of February has tho following :— " Waddoll, tho commander of tho robol pirato ship Shonandoah, has written a letter from his place of oxiloin England to a friend in Mobile, in which, bosides giving an account of his raid on tho American whalemen in tho Arctic, and calling Secretary of the Nary Wolles a wilful liar, ho devotes a portion of his splcon to an invective against tho South, for whioh ho says he has now vory little respect, an sho was falso to her cause, and ho bolioves was not in earnest. He gives us to understand that ho did not fail to put monoy in his purao by his piratical operations, einco ho tolls us that, though in exilo, ho is far from boing a ruined man." » Tho " Argus " of tho 2 Isfc states :— " Cortain ohaugeß just made in connection with tho local branch of tho Peninsular and Oriontal Company's sorvico woro so frocly discussed on Saturday last, that thoy call for some notice. It appears that on tho arrival of Captain Black, who is on a general visit of inspection, ho discovered certain irregularitios in tho boolts and discrepancies in tho accounts of tho company, which could not have ocourrod if tho afl'aird of tho company had been conducted carefully and systematically. This led to tho immediate- resignation of Mr John Sparkos, who has been for many years the agent of tho company at this port, and ho has boon re placod by Mr W. 0. Clifton. Rumour has it thoro is a considerable deficiency to bo made go»d."

" Tasmania," says tho " Cornwall Chronicle," " will soon be in a position to oflor tho attraction of door-stalking, in addition to thoso of unrivalled climate, sconory, fishing, hunting, shooting, and boating, to visitors from tho adjoining colonios. Wo frequently sco prime dcor alivo or killed shipped by tho Btoamoi's for Molbourno, tho former to stock parks in Victoria, tho lattor as presents to friends; or occasionally to graco tho tables of first-clasß hotels. Ono day last week Mr Richard Saltmarsh, of Sandridgo, found doer so plontiful that ho killed two with ono ball which look effect in tho loins of a flno buck' and then lodged in tho neck of a doo. Both fell dead at tho samo instant. In lifo they had wandered through tho wild woods, and grown and fattoned logothor, and in death they woro not dividod, in this colony, though if thoy aro tho samo wo saw shipped by tho Black Swan, on Saturday last, thoy aro protty woll disporsed by this time, as they wero on their way to tho proprietor of a colobratod hotel."