LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 151, 4 December 1863, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Suicide at Waipawa. —On Wednesday week last, Mr. William Howell, who kept a public house at Waipawa, committed suicide by taking a dose of strychnine. An an inquest held over the body by the coroner of the district, the jury returned a verdict of felo de se. The Election of a Member for the Country Districts, consequent upon the acceptance by Captain Carter of the offices of Crown Laud Commissioner and Treasurer, came off on Monday, the 30th ultimo, when Mr. Bousfield was proposed by Mr. H. S. Tiffen, and seconded by Mr. W. Burton, and as no other candidate came forward, w r as declared duly elected. We look upon the result of this election as a great triumph in a .small way, as Mr. Bousfield has had to fight against the combined public and private influence of the Government, and of the Government organ, and has come off as we say, victorious. Napier Militia. —ln the New Zealand Gazette, dated November 7, we find that Lieutenant Azin Salvator Birch is appointed Captain, vice J. C. L. Carter, resigned. Auckland Militia. —The same Gazette contains the following appointments :—Ensign Henry Boyle Hunter, to be Lieutenant, vice Perceval, killed in action; Herbert Fitzwilliam Way, to be Ensign ; both late residents in this Province. An intelligible and intelligent idea of the state of matters in Hawke’s Bay as specially communicated by the Southern Cross’s own correspondent. How true it is that the looker-on sees most of the game;—“ In politics we are very quiet. A sharp contest for a seat in the Provincial Council will come off shortly, the candidates being Captain Carter, who, on accepting the other day the office of commissioner of Crown Lands, in conjunction with that o£ Provincial Treasurer, vacated his seat in the Council; and Mr. O. H - W. Bourlield, late of the survey staff, the writer

of the sensation articles with which the Times of this place occasionally astonishes its readers. Bourfield is, of course, the opposition candidate: and having lots of brass and activity, may not impossibly, cany the day. Captain Carter although a tine old India officer, and a man wholly above reproach, being too quiet to resist his indefatigable opponent. Bourfield being nearly as deaf as a post, and competantjas well to “ talk the legs off our iron pot,” will no doubt form a valuable acquisition to the Legislative body of Hawke’s Bay. He is the same gentleman, by the way, who, some two years ago, imagining that the Maories were going to attack him, forthwith garrisoned his house with his survey staff, and sent to town in the middle of the night for assistance. The apprehension I need not say, was only laughed at by the authorities.”