LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 14 November 1861, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

The Nomination of candidates for the additional town seats in the Provincial Council will take place this day at twelve, at the Resident Magistrate’s Court House. Mr. Triphook has been some time in the field ; Messrs. 11. L. Sheet and Edwards will offer themselves, and we believe Mr. Colenso will be brought forward, so that there is every appearance of a contest.

Death from Drinking.— On Sunday last about eight o'clock p.m., a private soldier of No. 3 company of the 14th Regt., named Ellis Mostyn, was brought to the barracks and placed in the guard-roomin a state of intoxication, where ho was visited by those on guard during the night. On visiting him between three and four in the Corning he was found apparently dead, and-Staff As-sistant-Surgeon Grace, having been sent for, was of opinion death had probably occurred an hour or an hour and a half previously. After a post mortem examination, Dr. Grace attributed death to have resulted from engorgement of the lungs (pulmonary apoplexy), preventing the. necessary aeration of the blood. At an inquest held on Monday, at the Royal York Hotel, before the coroner, T. Hitchings, Esq., the jury returned a verdict that deceased came to his death from pulmonary apoplexy, occasioned by drinking. A Government Gazette, published on Monday last, contains an abstract of the receipts and expenditure of the Province fertile quarter ending 30th June, 1861, from

which we give the following : —Receipts : ordinary revenue, .21,347 14s. 7d. ; territorial, A 8,511 18s. lid. ; miscellaneous, A 3,883 4s. lid. total, A 13.742 18s. sd. Expenditure: Ordinary, A2,G72 9s. 4d. ; public works and undertakings, A 3,924 2s. 4d. ; balance due to Union Bank of Australia last quarter (but now paid) A 2,993 17s. Id. ; advances to officers and others to be accounted for, A 3967 IGs. ; —total, A 13,558 4s. 9d. ; balance in hands of Provincial Treasurer, June 30, 18G1, AlB4 13s. Bd. A return of lands sold, deposits paid on unagricultural land to go to auction at five shillings an acre ; assessments on runs and Crown Grant fees received, gives the nett amount due to the Province, for the period from the Ist to the 30th Sept., 1801, inclusive, as A 2,098 18s. 7gd. A return of cattle slaughtered in the month of October gives the total number as 2G9, including 49 great cattle, 201 sheep, and 19 pigs.