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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 373, 3 May 1866, Page 3

Great Land Sale. —We would draw attention to a.great land sale to be held this ■day by Mr Edward Lyndon, at hia new auction rooms, Shakespeare road. Sale to commence at 2 p.m. sharp. For particulars see advertisement. An Income Tax. —The Sydney correspondent of the. Melbourne Argus, in a telegram forwarded on the 11th instant, states that the New Zealand Government has requested the Governments of New , South Wales and Victoria to appoint two Commissioners to re-organise the Civil Service, and flan ;an income tax, and that Mr Wm. Forster as been appointed. Government Economy. —The poundage of five jper cent, hitherto enjoyed by country postmasters and licenced stamp-sellers on their sales of postage ftamps, is, by an order in Council abolished, to take effect from the Ist of May instant. •Cheating the Gallows. —Eli Sykes, who was aentenced at the Leeds assizes for the murder of • young woman and her mother, at Batley, died in the prison on Saturday night, from the effects of injuries he sustained by throwing himself from one of the galleries in the gaol into the paved corridor beneath.—European Times, 26th January. The Funeral of Colonel James Glencaxen Burns.—The Dunfries Courier, in recording the proceedings at the interment of the eldest son of the Ayrshire Bard, mentions a fact full of interest, namely—that of the gentlemen assisting at Colonel Barns’ funeral six had also been present at his father’s burial seventy-two years before. The Governor of Victoria.— On the subject of the rumored recall of Sir Charles Darling,-we find the .following in the Hobart Town Mercury of the 26th ult. :—“ We gather from a private letter received in Hobart Town yesterday, that bis Excellency has been informed by the borne authorities that so soon as he has earned his pension, which, it is added, will be in about another month, h:s services will be dispensed with. Apart from this, the long stay of Sir Richard Macdonneil in London, after his appointment to Hong Eong, andwhilst actually on his way thither, lends countenance,to the belief that he is to be Sir Charles Darling’s successor. In any case, Sir Charles Darling’s power to work farther mischief must be nearly at an end.” Bobbery of Gold from New Zealand. —The Empire says ;—“ The Steamship Barwon, from Nelson and Hokitika arrived alongside the Commercial Wharfj at 7*30 p.m. on Monday last, with 23,260 ozs., 11,000 ozs., of which were consigned to the Bank of New South Wales, and the remainder to the Oriental Bank. ' It being then too late to land the gold, Captain Lowrie let it remain on board, and left the chief officer in the cabin to take charge of it. On Tuesday morning at JO o’clock, when the gold was being landed. Captain Lowne discovered that one of the boxes, containing 1000 ozs., had been abstracted from the cabin where it had been deposited. William Smith, late steward of the Barwon, Charles Nixon, steward at the time of the robbery, and Margaret Daniels, stewardess, have been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the robbery. They were brought before the Central Police Court on Wednesday last, and remanded till to-day.