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Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 629, 9 June 1869, Page 2

Wanganui Volunteer Cavalry.— Major Nixon has been gazetted to the Captaincy of this corps.

Members for the City in the Provincial Council.—Mr Henry Anderson and Mr A. P. Stuart, are candidates for the representation of Wellington city, in the Provincial Council.

Shipping Cattle from Wellington. —The s.s. Wallabi sailed from Wellington cm Sunday, for Westport, with-50 head of cattle on board. The cattle are from Mr McMaster's station in the Wairarapa. Sale of Drapery.—The great sale of drapery at the Rangitikei House has now been continued for three days, without much apparent falling off in the demand for goods at the.prices being obtained. To-morrow, Mr Chadwick will conclude the sale by offering the remainder of the stock, in lots to suit wholesale buyers. Native Policy or the Government. —Mr Stafford, on Thursday evening in the House, said the Government, this week, would be prepared to propose measures for settling the native difficulty. They were obliged, he said, to delay doing so, in consequence of the inconsistent absence of a large number of members : the inconsistency being that the House, at great inconvenience to His Excellency, had been summoned earlier than usual in order to meet a generally expressed wish. Colonel McDonnell.—The Colonel is not to be suppressed by the mandate of either Colonel Haultain or Colonel Gorton. He has written a metaphysical (!) letter to the Independent, showing why his opponents in the controversy now going on must be wrong. The Colonel is in Wellington, and writes from ' Osgood's Hotel,' which is lather a strange answer to the assertion of a contemporary that he had left the colony. In his metaphysical letter—which by the way is a great curiosity—he says with regard to Te Ngutu o te Manu No. 2, " Of course we did not anticipate a reverse; all ?ce (he and his officers) thought was, that a longer delay would have rendered success more certain." I The cane against the Government will be superintended by the Colonel in person, and the time of the Assembly will be taken up in discussing absurd questions, raised by a disappointed officer, which had better be buried in oblivion.

PI'RENOLOGY AND MeSMKHISM. A Dr Carr is at present giving lectures on phrenology and mesmerism in Wellington. His mesmeric feats are seemingly wonderful, but collusion between himself and his subjects is suspected. IJis phrenological experiments give great satisfaction, the manipulation of Kemp's cranium especially. This chief obtained a character for ferocity—that lie would in a passion dash out another man's brains, &c. A\ hen Kemp heard this, he cried out. " Kapai, kapai." We commend this to the careful consideration of all Maori philanthropists, and Exeter Hall.