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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 397, 26 July 1866, Page 2

The * Advertiser’ on the Patriotic Fund,— ln another place we give from the ‘ Advertiser’an article on the apathy displayed by the various provinces of the Colony in relation to the above matter, in which it is stated that the Superintendent of Hawke’s Bay called a public meeting, and spoke in favor of the object. Now, ardent admirers of his Honor as we are known to be, we cannot suffer this to pass unchallenged, as though he had done all in his power and was not seconded, believing, as we do, that the Hawke’s Bay public has only wanted a leader in the matter, and that if such meeting had been held, committee organised, and speeches made, the subject would not have stopped there, but would have shown proof of the appreciation in which this community holds our gallant defenders. We have frequently directed attention to the subject, and do not see that it is yet too late for something to be done to redeem the credit of his Honor the Superintendent and the Province of Hawke’s Bay. We call attention to the fact that the Ahuriri will steam for Poverty Bay, tomorrow, the 27th Inst., and not this afternoon, as advertised in our first page. She will remain two days at that port, returning to Napier on the 31st, and depart for Wellington on the Ist proximo. We would remind the public that this evening will be produced, at the Theatre Royal, Hyderabad-road (for the second time in Napier) Shakespeare’s sublime tragedy of “ Othello, the Moor of Venice.” (See advertisement in fifth page.) The Maungatapu Tragedy.— We see by a recent Nelson telegram that tiie four men. Levy, Sullivan, Burgess, and Kelly, will be tried at Nelson, and not at Wellington. The Panama Service. —“ Again,” says the Independent of Tuesday last, “ an alteration has been made in the time of the mails via Panama starting, and arrangements have been entered into by which the dates of departure will be the Ist of each month. In consequence of this there will be no mail despatched by this route, after to-day, till the Ist of September, from here, when the Rakaia or Mataura will follow the Ruahine.” Lieut.-Col. Whitmore, M.L.C., was a passenger by the Ahuriri yesterday.