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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 396, 23 July 1866, Page 2

Napier Exele Volunteers. —Ensign James Irvine has been gazetted to be Lieut., and Henry E. Webb to be Ensign ; date of commission, 28th June, 1866.

The English Mail may be expected in Napier by the s.s. Ahuriri on Wednesday next, 25th inst., just in time to be too late again to be despatched by the inland mails to-morrow.

The Weather. —Winter has now fairly set in. The wet weather which we noticed as having commenced about a fortnight ago, still continues. Saturday last and yesterday especially were very wet days; and even now, as we write, a keen south wind is blowing, and the rain is falling heavily. The Wairoa Mail. —Up to a late hour last evening there was no sign t f the Wairoa mailman. This is easily to be accounted for, when we consider the late uepropitious weather.

Supreme Court. —The days of sitting have been altered, in consequence of his Honor Mr Justice Johnston’s being unable to arrive in Napier before the time previously vertized. The sittings for civil and criminal business will now take place on the Gth prox.; debtors’ and creditors’ act, on the 9th ; minor sittings on the 10th ; and in banco on the 11th.

Revision Court.—rlt will be seen by advertisements in our first page this morning, that a sitting for the revision of the Napier and Clive Electoral Rolls will be held at the Court-house Napier, on Wednesday next, 25th inst., at 11 a.m.

Fatal Accident.—On Tuesday, 17th June, the body of a man was found under a cliff, on the Taipo-road, near Redcliffe. The deceased was not dead at the time of being found; and he was put into a cart, and conveyed to town ; but the poor fellow expired when the cart got to the beginning of the White-road. An inquest was held on Thursday, the 19th, at the Settlers’ Hotel, before T. Hitchings, coroner From the evidence it would appear that the deceased (whose name was Thomas Yance,) was intoxicated at the time he met with the accident which resulted in his death. The jury returned an open verdict. New Zealand Patriotic Fund.—ls Hawke’s Bay never going to subscribe anything towards the New Zealand Patriotic Fund ? We have repeatedly brought this subject before the attention of the public, and it is now many months since a public meeting w r as held at Wellington, at which a resolution was passed requesting Superintendents of Provinces to call meetings in their respective districts, for the purpose of setting on foot a fund for .the relief of the wives and orphans of soldiers of our colonial armies who have fallen in action, —yet nothing has been done in the matter, and we may now fairly ask, is. nothing going to be done ? What will the other Provinces say when they hoar chat nothing has been done in that pioviace, the rulers of which delight in saying, is the most flourishing of the whole Colony ? Even crippled Taranaki has made noble efforts in the matter; and really—we blush to write it—it is a disgrace to the people of Hawke’s Bay that nothing has been done here. We feel confident that the thing, once set on foot, would go ahead, and that a very few weeks would show a pretty respectable subscription list. But who is to take the initiative? We know who ought to do so—His Honor of " ours."