LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 35, 27 February 1862, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

We have been requested to call attention to Mr. Y. Janisch’s extensive sale of Furniture, Clothing, Drapery, &c., to take place on the sth proximo. For full particulars see advertisement.

The Native Tangi. —Considerable numbers of natives passed through town on Tuesday and Wednesday last for Moananui's pah. - There was a rumour abroad that two or three hundred of the Waikatos were on their way. We believe this to be incorrect, as but a very limited number of natives from that district have arrived, and but few expected. The greatest number of visitors are from Petane, Wairoa, Poverty Bay, &c. Preparations on a most extensive scale have been in progress for some time, in order to receive the guests in that hospitable manner so peculiar to the native race. Tons of sugar and flour, and immense quantities of tea have, within the last week or two, been conveyed from town to Waipureku. and there can be no doubt but that the visitors will be at least abundantly, if not elegantly, entertained. The- feast, we believe, will take place this day. Numbers of Europeans have intimated an intention of being present, and altogether it is likely to prove one of the greatest “gatherings'’ ever known in Hawke’s Bay. The meeting is ostensibly to have a tangi over the remains of the late chief Moananui.

It will be known to those who were present, that about six weeks ago a meeting of certain of the residents in Napier took place, for the purpose of forming themselves into a Xlifie Club, for practising and instructing themselves in the use of the rifle ; and that at this meeting it was proposed and carried that Captain Curling, the chairman, should write to the Governor on the subject. He did so, and the letter below is the answer received. Deputy Adjutant Generals Office, Auckland, sth February, 1862. Sir, —In reply to your letter addressed to Mr. Layard, Private Secretary, dated 13th January, relative to the formation of a Rifle Club, to be called the “ Napier Rifle Club,” I have the honor to acquaint you that I have been directed by the Government to state that although they fully appreciate the vakm of the proposal, they consider that all Rifle Clubs should be of a private nature, such as that in Auckland. I am also directed to suggest that it will be far preferable if the gentlemen would form themselves into a Company, which would enable the Government to place them on the same footing as Volunteers in other Provinces, and have a force under proper control, which could be similarly depended upon should their services be required. c I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most Obedient Servant, 11. C. Balxeavis, Dep,-Adj-Gen. Militia & Volunteers. John Curling, Esq., Chairman Napier Rifle Club, Napier. It has now been considered advisable that a meeting (notice of which appears to-day in our paper) should be held for the purpose of considering the propriety of adopting the recommendation in the Adjutant-General's letter, viz., to form a Company of Volunteers in this Province, under the regulations for Volunteers recently issued by the Government (reprinted in another column), and it is hoped that there will be a full attendance.