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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 320, 2 November 1865, Page 4

Captain Teaser's Promotion. —lt will be in tbe recollection of our readers that some few weeks aio Captain Fraser, a .young and gallant officer serving at Waiapu, on the East Coast, was suddenly promoted by the late Defence Minister from the rank of Captain to that of LieutenantColonel, and the consequences of that step will be fresh in the public mind. We understand that the present Ministry have thought proper to cancel the commision of Lieut.-Colonel, and it has been cancelled accordingly.—New Zealand Advertiser, October 23. Gold. —The report that gold has been found at the Waitakerai has been strengthened by intelligence received by a gentleman residing’in Auckland, tbe owner of property on one of the Waitakerei blocks. That gentleman has boen, we understand, shown a fine sample of gold, some soz. in weight, which his informant slated was taken from some three or four different places in that district. More than one half the land in the three Waitakerei blocks lias been purchased, or taken up by the holders of land orders ; but the remainder, in the shape of reserves, remains in the hands of the Govarnment, and, should the report turn out true, available as a public gold-field. —New Zealand Herald, Oct. 23,