If the Returning Officer of any district, or if any person having been appointed Sub stitute for a Returning Officei or Deputy Returning Officer at any election for the same respectively, and having undertaken so to act, shall" he guilty of any misfeasance or wilful or negligent act of commission or omiswion contrary to any of the provisions herein contained, and not otherwise pro vided for, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a penalty not less than ten nor more two hundred pounds." The presentation address to the Rev. J. S. Mill, notified in our yesterday's issue, will remain on view for the members of the Young Men's Christian Association at their rooms for one week, after which it will be placed in Messrs Upton's window, The settlers of Onehunga are anticipating a local treat to-morrow (Friday) evening, in the Masonic Hall of the village, consisting of a lime-light tour through Ireland, and America, songs, and comic representations, temple of matjic, tiapeze performances by the Bumpton Brothers, aerial suspension, &C, concluding with a quadrille party. At the Licensing meeting held at One lninga on Wednesday, Mr BarstoV in the chair, Mr Tyler appeared on behalf1 of several objectors to the granting of a license to a new house ou the Mount Eden Road to W. Boston, and urged that there were enough of such houses in that locality alreaTlv. Mr Tyler said that a person in. •Court "connected with the house had just ofiexe/l him a bribe of £25 to sell his clients (teetotaljy) which he did not accept. The license was refused. „,,,.„; To the Editor : Sir,— Was not Mi- Ewing. ton the proposer of Mr Newman (also Mr Whitaker's champion), greatly interested in two receptions that we gave our noble Sir Geor"c? ]l co, comment is needless. — Yours, &c., JJatier. ,-V Yesterday afternoon a cart, in which were two men and a/woman with a child in her: arms w/is being driven at: a furious pace jn Queen-street to the danger of ,the passen rrera They were all under the influence of liquor, especiiiHy-lthe female, who had se cured one of the men's hats, and was appa rently enjoying the afternoon's ride. 