LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 91, 26 August 1846, Page 2

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

A numerously attended and highly respectable meeting was held on Wednesday evening last, in the Wesleyan Chapel, Manners for the purpose of hearing &c addresses that we announced in our paper of the 15th inst., on the subject of the " EvangeKcal Alliance. 1 " The meeting listened with evident interest while the « History of the Alliance" was detailed by the Rev. J. Watkins; the " doctrinal basis " of the Alliance, or* as it was more correctly defined, the " poiats of agreement," were then admirably elucidated by the Rev. S. Ironside ; the "evils of disunion " were feelingly and forcibly described by the Rev. J. Aldred, and Mr. Woodward, in a few observations on the objects of the Alliance, gave a brief answer to the utilitarian cvi bono? as applied to the whole subject. So far as could be judged, the meeting as awhole seemed eminently calculated to aid in accomplishing the proposed object of the Alliance. All the speakers appeared to consider that, while the movement had been caused by the " pressure from without, ,, the effect of it would be to combine the general body of orthodox Protestants into a " phalanx •'- an army powerful because united, instead of allowing them to continue like so many separate regimeais, feeble because of their division

Wellington Savings' Bank. Managers to attend in rotation to receive deposits—His Honor the Superintendent, Dr. Featherstone, and Messrs S. Revans and W. B. Rhodes. On Saturday, the 29th August, from 7 to 8 0 clock, p.m., at Mr. Ross , offices : and on Monday, the 31st August, from 12 to 1 o clock, at the Union Bank.

Mr. Gillotfe party at Kapiii have captured more than 70 tuns of oil.

Mr. Toms , party in Queen Charlotte bound captured prior to the Ist ultimo, two whales and one humpback.

The cutter Catherine Ann, and .the cuter Fisherman, were both driven oa the

bar at Manawatn. Tlioy sustained litll" (iamago.but were compoll<d to throw overboard several tons of potatoes.

The nalives on the Manawatu were praceable, and disposed •to protect the resident' Europeans for the sake of the "rent." They were however in anticipation ot receiving a visit from a strong party of Taupo and Wangamii natives, who they staie are coming down to aid Rangihaeata.

We are requested to notice the disrespectful manner in which the remains of Mr. William Pitt Harvie, were conveyed to the cemetry;*— Carried by six prisoners, guarded by two armed policemen to prevent the escape of the felons ! The mode of burial mattered not to the unfortunate deceased, a man who had been afflicted with a terrible calamity for a considerable time, but common decency should have prompted the Sheriff, or some other persons, to have seen some little respect paid, to the remains of a fellow creature.