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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3879, 9 August 1873, Page 2

The Government is offering for sale a new issue of 4 per cent debentures to the amount of £50, C00. The principal and interest on these loans are made payable in the colony. £17,000 has already been taken up, and the balance will be allotted in the order of application at the price of ,£9O 10s per cent. The well-conceived alterations made in the Colonial Museum could not have been made at a more appropriate time. Strangers in the town should not miss an opportunity of visiting the valuable collection of natural curiosities, which are better classified and arranged for inspection than they have ever been before. Even residents of the city Avho are tolerably familiar with the nature and extent of what the museum contains cannot fail I to be struck with the great improvements which have been madeirecently. j

The Carandini Company had an excellent house last night. To-night will be gramme has been altered accordingly. Mr Frederick France has been appointed signalman at Mount Victoria, in place of Mrs France. We understand that Lieutenant H. E. Brandon has resigned his commission in the Wellington Volunteer Artillery Corps. It has been accepted, and the official announcement will probably appear in the next Gazette. The last Police Court joke is this : In the case Decks v. Humphries, Mr Buckley, who appeared for the defendant, pointedly asked the Inspector of Police, who was in the witness box : " What is the character of plaintiff?" Inspector : Of my own knowledge I can scarcely speak ; but the people of his neighborhood say that it costs them less for fuel than if they resided anywhere else, because they are kept in "hot water" by Decks. As a reminiscence of the Carandini Company in Auckland, and especially of the favor with which Mr Gordon's singing was received, we notice that the words of " Swing on, Old Pendulum" have been printed for sale. The words are from " All the Year Round," and the music is by Mr Frederick Ellard, late of Sydney. The song is one eminently adapted to Mr Gordon's powers of voice. The patent shutters which Mr M'Dowell tried on portion of his present premises when he first entered into occupation, appear to have ,so recommended themselves to him. that he has replaced all the front shutters with the new patent. Its chief recommendation is its simplicity and handiness A child five years old might in a couple of minutes let down or put up all the shutters of the establishment. The new shutters possess all the flexibility of a piece of carpeting with the strength of corrugated iron, and is a decided improvement over anything of the kind hitherto invented. We understand that the net proceeds of the late bazaar were about £350. The contributions, it should be remembered, were not all obtained in Wellington. Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago people, sent a considerable portion. The Football Club will play a scratch match on the Basin Reserve this afternoon, weather, of course, permitting ; but, wet or fine, a meetingof the club will be held at the Panama Hotel. It is said that a Nelson team of footballers will arrive here on the 14th by the Phoebe. From time to time little circumstances turn up showing that Mr F. K. Weld, once a popular politician in thi3 colony, but now Governor of Western Australia, does not forget the country he was so long connected with. Having heard that his old friend, the Very Rev J. J. P. O'Reilly, was about to erect a church at Te Aro, his Excellency at once forwarded a cheque for £15 as a donation towards the church fund. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, James Julien was sentenced to three calendar months' imprisonment with haid labor, for stealing a roll of shirting from Mr M'DowelTs shop. George Kane was brought up on suspicion of lunacy, and remanded for eight days. S. J. Hill, for committing a breach of the Municipal Corporations Act, by leaving his express wagon, was fined 10s and ordered to pay 9s costs. James Martin and Edmund Coffey were each fined 5s for drunkenness. The only civil case on the list that was gone into was that of J. G. Buck v. W. Blackclaim, £20 10s 7d. Judgment was given for £3 and costs. On Thursday two men, named respectively Neilson and Blatchford, were committed at Masterton for perjury, by Mr Wardell. They arrived in town last night, A bolting match took place yesterday morning upon the Queen's wharf. An express horse became frightened by the sound of a steam whistle, and bolted madly down the wharf. The rehi3 became entangled when he reached the Post Office. A capsize took place, the result being that both shafts were broken. Tha business of the British- Australian Telegraph Company seems to be increasing steadily. The returns to hand for the four weeks between June 28 and July 19 show that 718 telegrams have been transmitted through the company's cable from Port Darwin. As is usual, Victoria and New South Wales are the best customers, South Australia and New Zealand ranking next. They are followed by Queensland. Tasmania appeal's to make but little use of the wire. During the time specified this colony sent 32 telegrams home, and received 18. The latest news from the Rangitoto wreck is that it is in as good a condition as when the vessel was abandoned, and that from the position in which the wreck lies, and the depth of watei', it is not likely to sustain any material damage. Presuming this news to be correct, the N.Z.S.S. Company have made an excellent purchase. It there is any truth in the Shakesperian quotation, the tide of the company's affairs is l-olling on in full flood towards prosperity, and the Rangitoto will, in all probability, become the latest addition to the steam fleet owned in Wellington. Such a consummation would give general satisfaction, the enterprise of the company lately having made it very popular. A week or so will, no doubt, settle the matter. It will be seen by an advertisement that Mr Keogh will give another of his excellent Saturday night entertainments this evening, at the Odd Fellows' Hall. Besides the songs and character dances are "Box and. Cox," and the "closet scene" from Hamlet.