The Evening Herald. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1869.

Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 495, 2 January 1869, Page 2

The Evening Herald. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1869.

The Dog Tax.—According to a Elofcitika paper, the amount raised in the " County of Westland upon the dog tax •lone, has reached the extraordinary sum 0f;£864 10s for'the past twelve months. MIITTrA FOR .THE FhO?IT. A .'"yP^t was circulatedl'some time since that the Wellington Militia were likely toH^nt'totheTsront.- The Advertiser , now: says t there is no truth in the Teport.

Extraction of a Bcllet.—The horse i of trooper A! Nathan, ,W, V. C.,' was shot in one of the fore-leas on Monday .at Nukumaru. The leg became very painful, and the", wound having been probed, a large rifle bullet was sldl fully taken out by Mr Walker, of Aramoho. , The horse lis not seriously wounded, as none of thfe bones have been injured.

,The Late Fire.—The, population of Wanganui, we areafraid, requires careful weeding before we have nothing but* orderly and. well disposed citizens. Previous to the war, the loafing c?ass hardly existed in Wanjranui, but since, it has sprung up like "flies in the summer •hamhies." One.would have thought

■ ' the Armed Constabulary would;have ab- ',. rorbed the stray elements; but from the 1 system of substitutes, there is a hanging on, and a disposition to wait until " some- \- -thing, turns up." It must have^filled C , anyone with disgust to see strong fellows I -, ftanding idly looking onaatt t the late fire, and actually refusing to assist unlessrthey vere paid. The, Captain of the Fire Bifigade.asked a member of the class referred

■' *o s , c Jfo do "some slight thing, and he was met with the rejoinder, "I want 55." |k^ During the'time the goods were being taken out of the shops that were in danger, thieving^, was going on wholesale,' and'a large quantity of goods is missing. In cases' of fire it is the principal duty of the policy to protect property, and see • that when a shop is being emptied none of the light-fingered gentry are present, but only those who are well-known. The police in this respect seemed to ! Rave been very. remiss at' the late fire. J From what we observed at the fire, we '^hall not be placed in a position to stop the' destroying element until a Wat,er „ . Work Company is formed and pipes run j^*, through all the streets. The fire engine almost useless,'through, the iriadew»t«r. which had to be river in buckets. It difficulty that Major could gyt-wie people to form a but he was, after;persevering *>r m e time, successful 1 and a small sunnily water was obtained, but not one fenih of tbe quantity required'to be of much Wrvict. A ready supply of water it more Tequired than engines If a reservoir -were formed at some elevation, and pipes the -town, an engine cpuld toe with altogether.. v

Thr Great Breach op Promise Case. —In reference to the case of Hunt v. Knox we understand that a good deal of money chanzed hands'on the eventodds being given at first that the lady would not get more than £500, afld several takers willing to accept- or ready to give odds the other wayl-^Evening News.

Yon Tkmpskt's Widow.—We learn that the shareho'ders in the claim which w& discovered by the^jate Major Yon Tempsky, called the Lord Ashley, or the Golden Age, and which has lately turned out to be one of the richest on the diggings, have met and agreed to present his widow with a'full share in the claim. This is a very generous action, as Yon Tempsky threw up the claim, the expose of developing,^ being more than*e could afford. * -' . •