LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 81, 25 July 1846, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

The barque Levant, Captain Lap?, arTived in port pn- Wedrrestiay evening, from Sydney, bevn- fonr teen days on tFie pas-age. The' f >llowin<j is a correct list of the officers and men. who- have arrived by her :— S.MTH pEGISrENT. Ensign Barker,. One man 65tHT itEGTMENT. Captain O'Connell, : in <iQn^and> Captai-i 1 I^'Coy, Lieutenant Tarter,, $eyen s, f even corporals, P?ie- hundred ftnd tlifrfy-nrne men;., Total, ra-nk and file, 154 |*a9«eng r-r-Ur. Knox, Ms Peacock,, ami %, Milps

lieujemitt Colonel M Ciaverty, |tie now Com m c<^for,er for New Zealand', arrived in Sydney in the Agincpurf. Death .Bγ beli-ved 6n= Tuesday week' last, a than' named •■■William 1 Smith t wljo was in tH.e employ ef Gapt. Smjt'\. and- hadbe'en at M"r. Bidweil's etationin tbe VTairarapH, "Sifie unf irtunately drowned , in returning to that of Captain Snvth.; ■ Tfye natives uey that, lute u> the. evening when nearly dark, they heard crie* as if proceeding from tHw river, and' iipxt' morni"g tliey tracrid f.iotsteps-to itt binks. In crossing tha riyer Wargaraa, current, raining ye.ry strong tiie time, lie w<i.«, in all probabili'jf, his feet, and cinitd out to sea.

We areoorry thu want of space has compelled Uβ to omit the , insertion of the list of subscriptions oollected for the widow of the kte JBticUnrd Rush f bur, it will appear-in. our-next,. .■'

'• H» M;> S.. Castor, may be expected* hourly with additional forces.

'■ The brivantuie Sct>tia, - Ward,.,master, jWas to sail from- Sydney, the day afun the ' Levant,, for iWa place. :

By tne weihave fries of, the Australian' Mominu 'fcTirmhjle to;thfl %\\ J'jily. w 4 HI be Ibujnd in. a«otlwr portion.' ofj t^ 3 4ay/d paper^ "• >'■•* < , .' .

'( • We -Ra{ve received a copy of & liev* paper, the-Moreton Bay Cottjier,.published;' ,w,eek!y at tfy&tim Bay. ''it n go^up(in v ,a.hjgbly erediiaJ)l& nwmpei;,. anjj we tlifnjc" frojio its appearance that it cannot fail toj .-/answer,.

the list of subscriptaons for the relief of the widow of James Holmes 1 ; fdr *♦ George Young, 4p : .J*iiiati;- t u -George Yotjnor, 55., ,

, Theatre was opened on Wednesday night, for the benefit of Mr Amor, machinist and- 'p,romplfar. The q-qaliti:es of Mr.! Amor ba*e-9e-curedi him a* hifcnping blouse, but fro-m ihe fact ©f feh.e absence of so many parties fro*n town , . The-'scentry wae.g'ot o-p in>& very superior ffi£n;uTj ;ind;the were performed exce, d'ingfy: weiC '

': We calf the -altviulm of Iff*. S"t. Hill: to the state , of the beach i^ad , . Someihrog ought to-be done, tf> remedy tfeeThe- prisoners if rightly set to w o rk r would' speedijy reader tfteroad sqmethyjg better thaa a conth)U.f.a< sloit^hv

By the Fid!ele r we ieam t&at GHFott ? B party at csiighi' another whale en Monday. njgh,t fc male abnivt forty, tmw of oil r in a) 5 which. Mr* GiWott has tiwed.

; One of the Government Jn-lhre district, is- at the present iime y for want oj m- a vers. inefficient staie ~i we mean the office for Hegistnation of Deeds-. Deeds which hfivo fet-ei* left for. many months- pa«t to be registered r are sfcill detained, to the inconvenience of tlie partisaa interested.. Whenever tlie New. % aland '.Cfirn-pajiy receiver us- of Port Ni<;lio<s<)n, tlie- revonne of fchie office will' be considerable; We d& not think its- iinpQrtanee., beea aiiffi.cicatix eajtl* iaa.ed* *'* *' *.