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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 374, 7 May 1866, Page 1

A Sell! —A correspondent at Poverty Bay under date 15th April, writes:—“ The St. Hilda, I see, has returned for another batch of Maori prisoners, but—would you credit it ?—they are all gone ! Where they have bolted to remains to be found out. I hear that Lieut. Wilsan is after them. It is to be hoped lie will take the naughty pets prisoners once more ; but this is doubtful—the cunning rascals are so well acquainted with the bush, where I presume they have flown to. Meanwhile, I suppose the St. Hilda will quietly steam back to Napier.” The Elax Question Solved.—Under the above and similar headings, the Auckland papers inform us that a process has been discovered by which Now Zealand flax could be prepared for market without the use of chemicals or auv expensive machinery—the materials employed being cow dung, sea water, &c. We shall be glad indeed to find this discovery prove really true.

Meeting op Parliament.—A proclamation was published in, the General Government Gazette, sth April, calling on Legislative Councillors and members of the House of Representatives to meet in Wellington to take into consideration the state and welfare of the Colony, on Monday, the 28th day of May next. In reference to this, the ‘New Zealand Advertiser’ says:—“This in all probability will not be a final arrangement, and we shall most likely hear of a further prorogation as that date draws near.”