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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 431, 22 October 1866, Page 2

EiETHQUAKES. —Another of these rather unpleasant vibrations took place in Napier on Saturday last, at four p.m. The shock did not last many seconds, but was pretty severe. Body Found.— We understand that the body of a man was yesterday found in the marshes near the Tutaeknri river, by a young man named Robert Northe. It is supposed to be that of Capt. Valentine, late of the brigantine Balmoral, who, as wo stated in our issue of the 11th inst., has been missing since the 3rd. Death of One of the Maoei Peisonees. —Of the prisoners brought in wounded from the skirmish at Oinaranui on the 12th inst., one died from tho effects of his wounds on Wednesday last, and was buried the next day. There was one other whose wounds were believed to be mortal, but wiio, we believe, yet lives. There is something truly wonderful in the way these men recover from injuries that would leave a European without the slightest chance of life. Caution to Mastees of Vessels. —We perceive from the police reports in the Wellington papers that Capt. Flowerday, of the s.s. ‘ Ahuriri,’ was fined £5 for neglecting to deliver up a mail which had been brought on from Picton, Tho mail was for Port Cooper, and should have been delivered up to the Postmaster at Wellington, to be forwarded to its destination, but was omitted through inadvertanco. Land Sales in Canteebuet. —During the month of September, 13,323 acres of land were sold in the Province of Canterbury, realising £26,646. ° Feom New Zealand to England via Panama and New Yoek* —The Panama Star and Herald thus reckons up the voyage:—From Wellington to Panama, twenty-seven days j stay on the Isthmus, two daysAspinwali to New York, seven days; in New York to England, ten days : in all forty-nine days. Dobson’s Muedeb.— Sullivan will shortly be seat to the West Coast, in order to give evidence as aoprover, on the trial of the man Wilson, or Murrajj for the murder of Mr George Dobson*