LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 109, 24 April 1863, Page 2

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oue contemporary informs its readers that “ a block of about seventy thousand acres on the Mohaka” is under offer to the Government ; and adds—“ The land is for the most part rough, with patches of good soil; but its acquisition, if only in a political point of view is a step in advance.”(?) Annual Licensing Meeting. —All the old licences were renewed, with the exception of Mrs. Foug&re’s house at Clive, and Evison’s house at Te Onepoto, lately destroyed by fire, for which there were no applications. Mr. Maney’s license was brought under the town regulations, and informed that he must put up a stable, which, in reply to the Bench, he said was in course of erection. Resident Magistrate’s Court. 22nd —Edmund Hammond was fined ss. for drunkenness, and ordered to pay ss, the cost of conveying him to the lockup. -23rd— Capt. Meiklejohn, of the schooner Excelsior, appeared in discharge of his recognizance, to answer a charge laid against him of concealing a deserter from H.M. 2nd battalion 14th Regiment, named William Baker , who was apprehended on board his vessel. The evidence tended in no way to implicate the Captain, and the case was dismissed. The Bench remarked that Captains of vessels were bound to take every precaution against soldiers getting away in their vessels, and unless they did so the law would hold them punishable by implication for a guilty knowledge.

A New Zealand Government Gazette notifies that Donald M’Lean, Esq., has 'resigned the emoluments of the office of Chief Land Purchase Commissioner held by him. Military. —We cull the following items from the Army and Navy Gazette :—“ It is rumored that the 2nd battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment will embark in the Spring for New Zealand, to relieve the 65th Regiment, upder orders to return to England. Lieutenant General Cameron is likely ;to return soon from New Zealand, which "command will in future be that of a Major General. . We have little doubt that General Cameron will before long be chosen for an important appointment on the Home Staff.” In a later number we find a similar statement made: —“ The modifications of the Irish staff arrangements are postponed for the present. Lieutenant General Cameron is likely to return soon from New Zealand, which comand in future will be that of Major General. It is understood that one of the brigade commands at Shorncliffe will be immediately abolished. Great savings are to be made by the reduction of the depots of all regiments serving at Not a whisper has transpired with respect to the probable successor of General Cameron. For our own part we thing it quite within the range of possibility that Major General Robert Henry Wynyard may have been offered the appointment. His period of command at the Cape of Good Hope must be nearly up ; and old Aucklanders are well aware of General Wynyard’s unabated regard for a colony in which he served so long and was so much esteemed. —New Zealander, April 10.