LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Our Civil Cojimissioxer. —The (Canterbury) Press, speaking of the Civil Commissioner in tliis Province, says : There is a Major "Whitmore, or some such name. Civil Commissioner at Hawke’s Bay, He is perhaps less fitted for the office than any man who could have been found. Of course he takes the salary, but we hear he lets M’Lean do all the work for him. Both actions show his sense. "Who could have said lie was not fit fur a Civil Commissioner ?
Novels ix Newspapers. —The same paper says :
The habit of publishing novels in newspapers is one which has been much discussed, and generally reprehended as a piracy on the copyright; but a piracy of a piracy is not usual. The following is from the Hawke’s Bay Herald: it exhibits a curious state of society in that part of the world ; a community which imports English novels through the Otago newspapers. We think had we been the editor we should have kept “ Lady Audley's Secret .”
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 112, 4 May 1863, Page 2
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166LOCAL INTELLIGENCE Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 112, 4 May 1863, Page 2
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