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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 412, 20 September 1866, Page 2

Election fob the Peovincial Council. —ln accordance with an advertisement which has recently appeared in our advertising columns, an election of a member to serve in the Provincial Council, in lieu of J. Buchanan, Esq., resigned, took place at noon yesterday, in front of the Government Buildings. There was a fair attendance of electors. The Returning Officer having read the writ, and requested ane of the electors to nominate a candidate, —MrH, R. Holdee proposed' and Mr Lindsay seconded, the nomination of Mr Samuel Locke, and there being no opposition, that gentleman was declared to be duly elected.

Valuable Eook Sale, Vautier tTaniscb*e sale of valuable books, &c., will take place at the mart, Eastern Spit, on Saturday next, 22nd inst, at noon.

Petane. —There are about eighty rebels assem* bled in the Petane district. They are very quiet, and say they have no desire to molest the white settlers. They belong to that fanatical order of Han-haus who have an idea that their bodies are bullet-proof.

New Papee. —Wo have to acknowledge receipt of the first and three subsequent numbers of a newsemi-weekly journal, the ‘Bruce Independent and Southern Districts Gazette,’ published at Tokomairiro, in the Province of Otago. It is a very neatly got up publication, and has a good show of advertisements. We heartily wish our youthful contemporary a long and prosperous career.

The postal committee recommend that a commission of two and a half per cent, bo given to sellers of postage stamps, and suggest that in all cases postmasters should have an open stamp account with the Government.

District Court.— James Grindell, Esq., of Napier, has been appointed Clerk of the District Court of Hawke’s Bay. The Annexation Question. —The House of Representatives was occupied all the afternoon yesterday discussing Mr M'Lean’s motion for leave to bring in a Bill to annex Poverty Bay to the Province of Hawke’s Bay, He argued that the distance of that district from Auckland, and the fact of the population being nearly allied to that of Hawke’s Bay, having come to the Colony in the same canoe, rendered the annexation most desirable. He also promised on the part of the Pro. vince over which he presided, to pay no less a stun than £50,000 in compensation to friendly natives, settlement of losses sustained, purchase of town and suburban lands, and contributions to pay off the Three Million Loan, if the district were annexed. Mr Whitaker, the Superintendent of Auckland, of course opposed the Bill, and argued that the district would be peopled by sheep, not men, if taken from Auckland, that it was unwise to cut up the Colony into small pieces, and that the petitions of the natives were of no value; but he forgot to say that Auckland had failed to put either sheep or men on the land, that taking from one Province and adding to another was not further sub-dividing the Colony, or that the Euro" peans of the district were as anxious for separation from Auckland as the natives, and that both races had unaminously demanded that separation. The debate on the subject is not yet completed, and is likely to be only second to that on the Stamp Duties or Separation in length. Want of space prevents our referring at any length to ths subject, but we may say that our sympathies are strongly in favor of Hawke’s Bay,—a Province which during the outbreaks on the East Coast proved herself the best friend that both Europeans and friendly natives had, and to whose Superintendent was it due that this district was not plunged into a bloody war, which the neglect of Auckland had rendered imminent.—New Zealand Advertiser, 14th September.j

The Wellington Fire Brigade hare decided that alarm bell towers should ha erected in different parts of town, and already several have been erected.

The Dayiesboed IVXo kdkk .—A. horrible rumor reaches us from Daylesford, Victoria—the scene of so many reTolting tragedies, that it seems to have become the natural source of ghastly details. It has been stated there, as a matter of fact, that the husband of Margaret Graham, so barbarously and mysteriously murdered about a year ago, has just died at Ballarat, baring previously confessed that he was himself the perpetrator of the crime.

The Bertrand and Kinder affair has again coma forward. The Attorney-General has obtained leaye from the Privy Council at homo to appeal against the decision of Sydney judges setting aside the conviction of Bertrand for the murder of Mr Kinder. His discharge has been refused. It is said that Mrs Kinder and her other paramour (Jackson) have returned to Sydney. Mrs Kinder has been living with her father in Hokitika where she was barmaid at an hotel.

Miss Isa Ceaiq haring yielded her position of Assistant Secretary of the Social Science Association to practise social science in a new capacity —to study practically, in fact, the law of marriage —a number of the members subscribed, and harq presented to her, a silver tea-service and salver u a wedding present, '

DISTRESSING OCCXTEEENCB NBAS DeEBT. —On Friday evening the Earl of Harrington, of Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire, left Elvaston Castle on horseback for Derby, accompanied by one of his daughters (Lady Caroline Stanhope) and his son (the Hon. Gerald Stanhope), also on horseback. They returned, and on passsing Omaston Park (about a mile out of Derby), Mr Stanhope’s horse began kicking, and threw him. The earl dismounted and picked his son up, putting him in a cart passing by which he was conveyed to the residence of Mr Hollis, surgeon, a mile further on. Deceased (only twelve years of age) was able to get out and walk into Mr Hollis’s, who took him to the castle in his own private carriage, and remained with him until 10 o’clock on Friday evening. At midnight a change took place, and Mr Hollis sent for Mr S. W. Fearn, surgeon, Derby, in consultation: that gentleman arrived at the castle at two on Saturday morning. The poor fellow had, however, become unconscious, never rallied, and died on Saturday afternoon. The cause of death was concussion of the brain, with rupture of a blood-vessel in the head.

The Natives.—ln its summary of the 11th iost, the Wanganui Times says ; —“ With the exception of the Patea district the ■whole of this island enjoys perfect peace. The native population is everywhere settling down to the cultivation of the land and other peaceable pursuits. The Patea River forms the boundary line between Taranaki and Wellington, and on Taranaki side the rebels have been rather troublesome. They have fortified a stronghold near Ketemarai where they have been joined by a few malcontents from Waikato, the whole is said to number 300 fighting men. During the month a force, under Major M'Donnell, has had some skirmishes with them, which will be found reported elsewhere. Should tho Government at once place the military settlers and the native contingent upon the land promised them at Manawapou, Waingongoro and Ketemarai disturbances in those quarters would soon cease, and the natives there as elsewhere, settla down to peaceful occupations.”

The Christian Index, an American paper, thus prefaces an obituary:—But a week since, we re» corded the death of one who was an old father in the Church, a careful reader of the Index, and who paid for three papers in advance.

Blackberries akd Magistrates. —Mr Justice Johnston, it would seem, is fond of a joke at times; what occasionally falls from his Honor has a tendency to remove, in a certain degree, tho characteristic dullness of the proceedings of the Supremo Court. Wo learn liom the New Zea* land Advertiser that, a few days since, while the Supreme Court was sitting in the Empire City, a witness residing at the Hutt, stated, in reply to a question, the nearest place from there at which a magistrate could bo found at home was Wo.iington! “ What ? ” —asked his Honor apparently in great astonishment —“ Ho you mean to toll mo that in New Zealand where magistrates are as plentiful as blackberries” (a laughj “none of them are to be found at home between the Hutt and Wellington ? Where is Mr Grace, Mr Fitzher. bert, Mr Ludlam, and Mr I-don’t-know-who ? '* The witness assured the Court that it was so. His Honor had thereby perpetrated a witticism, and demonstrated that in a country where blackberries are scarce magistrates are scarcer.