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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 819, 18 January 1868, Page 2

Brunswick Highway District. — The Wardens elected for the above district, at a meeting of the ratepayers, held on the 27th December, 1867, have been gazetted thus :— Phillip Mussen (colleclector), James Baker, A. T. Campbell, G. S. Wright, Henry Dyke, Thomas H. Morgan, A. Wickstead, and John Bryce, Chairman. The Slaughter House. — The lease of the slaughter house has been renewed to Mr John Pawson for another year. This place has often been complained of as a great nuisance, and the Magistrates fully recognise the justice of the complaint, but there is great difficulty in fixing upon a proper site, and this, taken in connection with the fact that, owing to the departure of the soldiers, there will be much less offal now than there has been in past years, has led to the temporary renewal of the lease.

The Holidays. — The long holiday may now be considered over, and the stern duties and realities of a new year are fairly begun. The most of the schools in town reopen on Monday, and everywhere play is giving place to work.

The Mail Services. — The tenders sent in for the conveyance of the Interprovincial mails have been opened, and that of the N.Z.S.N. Company accepted for the following services :— From Manukau to Wellington, from Auckland to Port Chalmers, and from Port Chalmers to Manukau. The tender of the Panama Company has been accepted for the conveyance of the mails from Wellington to the Bluff, from the Bluff to Wellington, and from Wellington to Auckland. — Independent. Too Good to be True. — The Melbourne Herald had lately the following improbable story :— “Colonial statesmen must look to their laurels. Within the last few weeks the Right Hon. E. W. Gladstone has become possessed of a large interest in the magnificent estate of Glenarmiston, the station of the Hon. Neil Black, of which the right honourable gentleman has been for many years a partner. It is rumoured that in the event of Lord Stanley succeeding to the Premiership upon the retirement of the Earl of Derby, it is the intention of Mr Gladstone to pay a visit to his Victorian property, with the view of judging for himself the working of democratic institutions in these colonies, and that in that case he would be willing to enter our Legislative Assembly.” Gold at Wellington. — The Independent says — Mr Grove has returned to town from Horowhenua, and has sent in a report to the Superintendent of the success he met with while prospecting in that locality. It seems that, although he made a strict examination of the country he did not find a single speck of gold, nor did the nature of the country lead him to suppose it to be auriferous. He further states that upon accompanying the person who first reported that he had found gold there to the spot where the precious metal was taken from, the latter washed a panful of dirt, and produced, as the fruit of his labour, a number of specks of mica, which he supposed to be gold. Mr Grove’s experienced eye at once detected the difference ; and, after what he had seen of the country, judging further search to be hopeless, he returned to town. He will leave to-day for Makara ; where he still pluckily intends to go on prospecting.