LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2176, 7 March 1865, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mr Borlase's Candidature. — This gentleman started for Wangauui on Saturday, to prosecute a canvass in that district. Mr Joseph Masters. — Wo are afraid Mr Masters "will not be able to support the character of "honest" ignorance much longer, as he has been playing some very strange tricks with his supporters. A week or two ago, he wrote to some friends in Wellington, stating his intention of opposing Mr Borlase for the Superintendency, and asking them to take measures to insure his return. More recently, however, he has written to Mr Borlase, and denied having done anything of the kind. His supporters are very indignant at this, and, we are informed, will hold a meeting to-night in Barry's Market Hall, to express their sense of his conduct. We anticipate a large attendance and a somewhat stormy meeting. Mrs C. F. Evereste. — This clever lady lecturer will expatiate on " Flirtation, its evil and remedy," in the Oddfellows' Hall, to-morrow night. The lady's talents are highly spoken of by the Victorian and New Zealandjournals, the subject is one singularly appropriate for a woman, besides being very interesting of itself, so that altogether we may anticipate a successful debut for Mrs C. F. Evereste. West Coast Gold Fields. — The news brought by the City of Dunedin on Saturday, from Nelson, Wellington and Picton, (says the Lytteltoti Times of the 28th ult.) induced several of our townspeople to start i the same evening overland en route for the Okitiki diggings ; on Sunday evening and Monday morning it was estimated that about sixty people had left Lyttelton. The steamer Eleanor, will leave for Okitiki this day, with a full complement of passengers and cargo. Dissolving Views. — In addition to a scriea of dramatic entertainments which are shortly promised, we understand that a gentleman lias recently arrived here who intends exhibiting a series of very beautiful dissolving views, with the oxy-calceum light. The viows include the scenery of the most picturesque spots in Europe ; scenes in Japan ; mechanical moving figures and effects oflight, shade, and color. From what we have seen of the apparatus we should think that the exhibition should bo of a very interesting kind, combining amusement and instruction alike. "Flirtation." — This word appearing so singularly in various parts of our advertising columns will shortly be explained and lectured upon by Madame Evereste at the Odd Fellows' Hall. This lady was a passenger by the p.s. City ofDunedin on Saturday last. The Minister of Defence.— Major Atkinson the minister of Colonial Defence arrived in the Phoebe on Friday last, from Taranaki. Major Atkinson, while there, was engaged in laying out blocks of land for military settlement. Captain Vine Hall. — This gentleman who was a passenger by the Phcebe from Nelson, left in the same vessel for Canterbury on Saturday. American Ox and Egyptian Goat. — We went the other day to see these extraordinary animals, and the sight was certainly worth the visit. The ox is an ox — and something else . In addition to the ordinary number of limbs, it has suspended from its neck an extra shoulder and foreleg, to which again are attached three horns, while at the corner of the shoulder joint is something which seems I like a tail. On looking at this extraordinary developement ono is tempted to exclaim : — " Tho things themselves are neither rich nor rare The wonder'a how the devil they got there." For our own part we haven't tho shlightcst idea, nor indeed can we imagine how the unfortunate Egyptian goat was doomed to walk through life on its forelegs with its stern in the air, a position defiant of the Jaws of I 1 gravity, and calculated to bring on an attack of appoplexy. Dramatic— We are glad to learn that 1 Messrs Towers and Company, from. Auck- , land, aro about to establish a theatre in Wel- , lington. With this view they have taken . the Odd Fellows' Hall, for six months, and ; will immediately have it fitted up with all the ' requisite mechanical appliances when a series of dramatic entertainments will be given, iut eluding high class Comedies, Operattas, Burlesques, Dramas and Farces. It will be the . object of these gentlemen to give an enter- * tainment of a really kigh class, and with this l view arrangements are being made to secure the services of the following talented artistes: . Miss Marian Dunn, Miss Maggie Griffiths, ! Miss Julia Corcoran, aud Miss Ellen Simms, while Messrs John Dunn, John Manly, F. Howe, E. Keeley, and Frank Towers, supported by numerous auxilaries, will also from time to time appear on the boards. A programme for the season will shortly be pubt lished, and it is anticipated the first performfc ance will be given in April.