LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 268, 22 May 1865, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Arrival of the Egmont.— The. Egmont arrived in the bay early yesterday morning, and has brought Us our Auckland files to the 18th instant. The principal items that we have to note is the loss by fire of the Black Ball line of packet ship Fiery Star, off the south end of New Zealand, some particulars of which will be found elsewhere. The Empress had arrived from London, and the Dauntless from Dublin, each with a large general cargo, and a great number of immigrants (642). The Dauntless reports having spoken the Pryne of St. John’s, New Bruns” wick, on the Bth January, off Cape Finistre, timber laden, in a very bad state of distress. She also spoke H.M.'s Harrier on Feb. 12. The Harrier had left the Falkland Islands on the 28th January, where she had lost her sub-lieutenant Jerroham, who went on shore to shoot, and could not'afterwards be found. She also lost a seaman, who fell overboard while lowering her bunts for communication with the Dauntless. The Dauntless afterwards fell in with the Fiery Star (as reported elsewhere], from Moreto.u Bay to London, in flames, and rescued all on board. A mutiny had broken out on board—six of the crew were put in irons, and were given into custody, and senteuc d to four weeks’ imprisonment. A public meeting had been held in Auckland for the purpose of acknowledging the gallant conduct of the chief officer and men who stood by the Fiery Star. A subscription list was opened and was being very liberally filled up. H.M.’s Brisk had been despatched to the Chatham Islands in search of the four missing boats of the Fiery Star, though the chances are greatly against success. The Australian telegrams show a decline in the price of flour at Adelaide of 10s per ton —latest quotations .£l9 10s to £2O 10s. The Waikato Settlers. —We are glad to observe that the questions relating to the Waikato settlement, that have for some time past been an apple of discord between the General Government and Auckland, is at last amicably disposed of through the agency of Mr C. Knight. Terms were proposed by the Superintendent of Auckland, and in reply to his letter Mr Knight, instructed by the Government, proposed certain modifications of these terms, which after some negotiation and amendment were agreed to by him. The correspondence is therefore now -closed, and the Waikato immigration scheme is under the sole control of the Provincial Government of Auckland.

In our impressed!* of Friday we gave under the head of “ Extraordinary proceedings in the North,” an account of the prosecution of a settler named Clark, and his being fined for merely seeing a fern fire and saving certain property from destruction. This day we reprint a leading article from the Southern Cross on the subject, under the head of “ Equal Justice.”