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

The Panama See vice, —Some of our contemporaries Lave expressed a fear that the delay in the departure of the mails via Panama this month might create a whole month’s delay in their reaching England. This fear, we are able to say, is unfounded. The services of the Royal Mail Company are semi-monthly right through to Southampton ; so that no detention whatever may be anticipated. The steamers leave Southampton on the 2nd and I7th of each month, and Colon on the 7th and 23rd, arriving at Southampton on the 14th and 29 th of each month. Mrs Kinder again. —The correspondent of the Canterbury ‘ Press,’ writing from Hokitika, gives the following interesting little bit in reference to the destruction of the above lady’s image by her father:—“The waxwork exhibition mentioned in my last was opened on Saturday, hut only for a very limited time. Armed with a suitable weapon, a man was seen to commence violently assaulting the image of Mrs Kinder, and succeeded in reducing the figure to particles before the astonished proprietor could stay the hand of the destroyer. The police were called, the person given in charge, and fined £2 this morning in the Resident Magistrate’s Court for committing a breach of the peace. The damage dona will be the subject of a civil action, I opine. The defendant is Mr Wood, father of Mrs Kinder, publican, Hokitika.”

No Peace yet. —The ‘ Wanganui Chronicle ’ says that the announcement of peace has been premature. Pehua, the chief of the Ngararas, declines, for himself and his tribe to give up their arms or make any formal submission. The peace then partakes more of a truce than perfect pacification, although it may, by good guiding, gradually merge from the oue into the other.

Home by Panama. —Several families who intend visiting the mother country have arrived in town for the purpose of taking their passages in the Kaikoura, which will leave for Panama on Saturday, the 23rd instant. Captain Vine Hall and Mr Crosbie Ward will also lake their departure by this fine vessel. —Wellington Independent, 14th June.

Financial Notice. —ln order that the financial accounts of the year ending 30th of June next, may comprehend and include all transactions relating to that period, it is requested that persons having claims on the Government will send in their accounts to the Sub-Treasury of the province before the 30th inst. Collectors of revenue are required to pay in their collections promptly ; and officers holding advances under imprest must forthwith render their accounts and refund any balances in their hands.—E. W. Stafford.

Postage Notice. —The following are now the postage rates from New Zealand to Ceylon :—For letters not. exceeding i oz., sixpence; for letters not exceeding i oz., one shilling, and one shilling for every additional ounce or fractional part of an ounce.

The Fortieth Regiment. —From our Auckland files, to hand per * Star of the South, 5 we observe that the head-quarters and right wing of the 40th Regiment, under command of Lieut.-Col. Nelson, embarked on board the hired transport ship * Holmesdale, 5 fnr England, on the 15tb. The number of the men was about 300, with a' few men of the 70th, several of the Commissariat Staff Corps, between 30 aud 40 women, and a few children.