WAIROA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 391, 5 July 1866, Page 2

WAIROA.

frilOlf A COBBESPOBDENT.] Saturday, 30th June, 3 p.m. The natives are still at work at the spit. They have made great progress, but it will take some time yet to finish it. The south entrance is as wide as ever, I think the Hero could get in if she was here to try. Even if she could not, the goods could be landed by boats without the slightest risk, as there is no sea whatever; in fact, it is much more smooth outside than in the river.

Three troopers arrived here from Waiapu on Monday last. On their road they were told by the friendly natives not to go by the inland road as the natives were assembled under the leaders of the new religion, and that they were waiting for Major Eraser to return overland, as they meant to waylay him and all the people with him. There is no doubt whatever but there will be more fighting on the East Coast.

Rueal Sections. —The attention of the public is called to the Government land sale of rural sections at Porangahau and Potutu (Wairoa), at the Crown Lands Office, Napier, To-Morrow (Friday), 6th July. (See advertisement in first page.) Alteration in the Dates of Arrival and Departure of the Steam Vessels.— We have received official information that owing to an alteration in the dates of arrival and departure of the steam vessels via Suez at Melbourne, a corresponding alteration has been made at the various ports on the New Zealand coast, commeucing with the present month. Complete tables of the new arrangement will be shortly published. In the meantime we are able to supply the following dates, which are correct as far as regards our own port: —Napier.— Arrive from North, I4th and 28th ; arrive from the South, 2nd, 18th, and 24th. De--part to the North, 3rd and 19th ; depart to the South, 15th and 29th.

General Government Gazettes —By the Lord Ashley we have received General Government Gazettes bearing date June 23, 28, and 29. These contain, amongst other matters of interest, a notification of the ap pointment of Mr Pearce’s woolshed principal polling-place for the Mohaka district of Hawke’s Bay ; Mr E. S. Curling's woolshed, Kopanga, principal polling-place for the Waimarama district ; Mr Mathews’s store, Hampden, and Mr A’Deaue’s woolshed, Aslicot, polling-places for the Waipukurau district; Mr A. M‘Lean’s woolshed, Muraekakaho, and Bev. S. Williams’s woolshed, Te Ante, polling-places for the Te Ante district; the Schoolhouse, Havelock, a poll-ing-place for the district of Clive; Colonel Whitmore’s' woolshed, Pekapeka, pollingplace for the Napier country district; and Mr H. S. Tiffen’s woolshed, principal polling-place for the same. Also, the appointment of John Lavin, Esq., Returning Officer for the Mohaka district; and the following gentlemen Deputy Returning Officers for the districts named respectively : John Baldwin Bedward, Esq., Poraugahau ; Alfred John Cooper, Esq., Mohaka ; Joseph Witherow, Esq., Waimarama; William Rathbone, Esq., Te Ante; George Willis, Esq., Waipukurau, There is also a proclamation offering a free pardon to any accomplice in the murder of the late George Dobson ; and a reward of .£2OO for information leading to the conviction of the murderers of the four men at Nelson.