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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 387, 21 June 1866, Page 2

SUPERINTENDENCY OF CANTERBURY.- —The contest for the Superintendency, which has been agitating the good people of Canterbury for so long, is at last at an end—resulting in the return of W. S. Moorhouse, Esq., by a large majority. The numbers were as follows .-—Moorhouse, 1,604 j Lance, 891: Travers, 186. The Trip of the ‘ Lady Bird.’—Referring to the intended trip of the s.s. ‘ Lady Bird,’ the ‘ Advertiser ’ of the Bth instant says :—“ It will be seen from our advertising columns that the ‘ Lady Bird ’ will leave for Napier and Poverty Bay on Thursday next, 21st inst., returning to Napier on or about the 28th, leaving Povej ty Bay on the previous day. This affords a lirst-rate opportunity for visiting one of the most fertile spots in New Zealand, and destined to become one of the most important. Monthly communication will be kept up by one of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Co.’s steamers, in consequence of an arrangement concluded, or likely to be concluded, between the Company and the Provincial Government of Hawke’s Buy, Already at this place and Wairoa an extensive and important migration of settlers is takiug place from Napier.”

Gold Robbery on the West Coast.—From a recent telegram we learn that “ a few days ago there was a quantity of gold, worth A'2,500, stolen from the Bunk of JSew Zealand, at Okarita. The mode of the robbery is unexplained.’^