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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 392, 9 July 1866, Page 3

A Specimen oe Mk Stafford's Economy. — The following letter appears in the New Zealand Advertiser, 2nd July, addressed to the editor of that journal“ Wellington, 29th June, 1863. Sir,—-It ill becomes any person occupying such a position as X do to find fault with the great powers who check the purse strings of the colonists, but there is one matter so very glaring with reference to Mr Stafford’s so-called economy that I cannot pass it over in silence. The usual sittings of the District Court were held on last Monday and Tuesday, but until the appearance of your journal on Wednesday morning I was not aware that they were about to take place, and I had two cases which ought to have been brought on during the sitting. I had no opportunity for calling at the office to ascertain the date of the sitting, but I naturally depended upon finding it in your advertising columns in the usual way. In this I was disappointed until too late, and in your issue this morning (Friday) I find a notice to the effect that the District Court would sit on Monday last, &c. Upon enquiry, I find out that the notice of the sitting is only inserted in the Provincial Government Gazette and not in the public journals. The Gazette is seldom seen in the town, and never in the country, and I cannot help thinking that if this is a fair specimen of Mr Stafford’s economy, the sooner he makes a final bow to colonial politics the better for us all.—l have, &c,, Thomas J. Beowne.”

Lost in the Bitsh.—Wo are in possession of the following information respecting the man lost in the bush while travelling with sheep near the Upper Adeloug:—lt appears that a person named Templar, superintendent for Messrs Wren and JDesailly, of Doniliquin, was travelling with a flock of sheep from Beago, and had occasion to call at Mr A. Watson’s, of Upper Adelong, for rations, which upon receiving he started again on his business, and nothing else was thought of him ; but a man named Charles Drew, while coming from Beago to Upper Adelong on Thursday, suddenly came upon two horses grazing, one having a pact and the other a saddle and bridle, and on looking round saw Templar lying, apparently dead, alongside a log; and on proceeding to examine him, found that, though not dead; he was insensible and at death’s door. Brew placed him on his pack-horse, and brought him to the nearest gold-diggers’s hut, five miles distant, where it was discovered that the unfortunate fello w had absolutely eaten the flesh off his wrist in his frenzy. A telegram has been sent to his employers to acquaint them of the circumstance, and also of there being but slight hope of his recovery.—Tumut Times, IBth dune.