LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 258, 28 April 1865, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Non-arrival of the Mim~Fpr three numtiih in' succession we' have to record the arrival of the : steapier from :thp South'with■ha .the English mail; .The Toss and annoyance occasioned to the mercantile portion of the community hy these continued mishaps is very great, and it is to the great of the settlers equivalent to a inpnth’s delay itv their correspondence .with England.. ~ The St. Kilda -steamed towards Wairoa. on Wednesday last,-conveying his Honor the Superintendent* ; for the’ phipo’sef 4 ofbringing to Napier the friendly, chiefs'that; may be there, in" order that they, might T>e present at a.meeting:here*called for Monday next;- hut it -Was-- found impossible to land, #|ie* a delay of some > bpui|,,thehea'ShoWiifg' ho sign of improvementAht ratheflJedoriiing worse, she returned to Napier, where she arrived yesterday morning.

NaPIEB Aeigwve an article froupJ|he fmZwAralW lilul&ng much bitterrfck agahm Munstry) having particular reTtuioif fo tW attempt of our Provincial Government to raise a few volunteers amongst the deceived and starving immigrants who are. according i ’Ritoundiirg..volanteera A¥A; -Jaam J xwntempqrary *Mf- Scully had i *nd“ difficulty' in raisihg * a hundred men fur that four or five times that number could lie I ;pljtaiqed there, and, if they ought j to be so obtained. *"* j ■ -A-correspondent-at the-Front has the following in the Southern Cross : —“ At Kakarandeh; bhe of the^Tth ; VasMhchy cn mglV ti? get hold of a' fine bew patent lever waiclr, found in an out-of-the-way pocket of a i(ead Maori; and another-was: • the fortunate possessor of nineteen sovereigns found ia the same Way.•' ■ •''" : : : - ; 1; '' fr’. : I : • i' : ,80016 odd claims for corapensiition; on account of damage done during the war have been preferred in the Auckland Compensation Court One was for J£lo to clear a farm of empty bottles which the garrison stationed there, had left behind them strewed over the ground, On the 3rd inst. 10,343 ozs. of gold-were shipped from Nelson ■by the Taraiua f.r Sydney, being the largest shipment yet oiade from Nelson. ... , . .: The editor of the Evening Star compelled by a sense of duty to ‘State that '-the police protection* of Dunedin at night is “ most flagrantly inefficient,”. and he has “ unquestionable authority. fcr saying tliat watchmen have "been' seen sound -asleep on the sofa in a public-house at three o'clock it? the morning.” Further,' that there ate “ several 1 hotels : which' are open, or are opened, at any hour of the night; and that the night police are in the habit, at convenient seasons, when they are nut likely to be under the inspection” of 'their superiors, of spending tbe.timelwhich iiight, to be devoted to their duty, over the comforts of u glass of "grog and a warm fire.”