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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 10 December 1866, Page 2

English Mail.— We would remind country readers that the English Mail for transmission via Suez closes at Napier, at the Chief Post OSi’e, at 3 p.m. on Saturday next, Isth inst., by P..N.Z., and A.R.M. Company’s b.s. Lord Ash’oy. All persons who wish to send letters or newspapers to the United Kingdom by this opportunity would do well to write on the face of each the words, “ Via Suez,” or “ Via Southampton,” This is rendered necessary in consequence of the recent determination of the Government to send letters, book packets, newspapers, &c., by the Panama route, unless specially ordered otherwise.

Impounded Stock. —Another saie of impounded stock will take place at Mcauot* to-mor-row (Tuesday,jat noon. IS’adieu Building Society. —We would direct attention to the special general meeting of the above Society to be held at the office, in the Government Building?, on Thursday evening next, at 8 o’clock, to consider the treasurer’s opposition to the resolutions of the committee. Notice to Grantees. —An advertisement will be found elsewhere, announcing that sixpence per month will in future be charged on all crown grants left in the custody of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Signs of the Times. —The Government, as will be seen by advertisement in to-day’s paper, request tenders for building a lock-up at Meanee. "We regret that there exists the necessity for such an edifice in so young a settlement.

FURTHER PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—A General Government Gazette published on Thursday, which; however, only reached this office yesterday afternoon, contains the following proclamation, by his Excellency the Governor, addressed to the members of both Houses “ Whereas on the eighth day of October last I thought fit to prorogue the General Assembly of New Zealand to the twenty-seventh day of December next, at which time you were held and constrained to appear: Now know ye, that for divers causes and considerations I have thought fit to relieve you and each of you of your attendance at the time aforesaid, hereby envoking and and by these presents enjoining you and each of yon, that on Tuesday, the nineteenth day of February next, you meet in Parliament, at the City of Wellington, there to take into consideration the state and welfare of the said colony of New Zealand, and therein to do as may seem necessary.” It is probable that the meeting of the Assembly will afterwards bo prorogued to a later date than February.—Wellington Independent, Ist December.

The Aphis. —A correspondent of the Bathurst Times states, for the benefit of farmers and gar deners, that be applies coarse snuff to his cabbage plants, cauliflowers, and fruit-trees, which, ha says, “ takes all sorts of aphis and crawling things away from them.” He says he has a good crop of cabbage now. The following is the prescription : —” Tut a small quantity of snuff, every night after sundown, around the root, and in the hearty of the plant, till you see the aphis disappear. About six or seven application w:ll suffice. Do the same to yourfruit-trees but with a little water to the roots. Scented snuff is useless.”

The Cholera occupies a large share of space in the London papers, and one of the statements published is that two fatal cases have occurred in that classic place—the Inner Temple. The consequence is that its three pumps have been chained up. Me Ssipiee, the inventor of the system, of converting hnfields adopted by the Government,.is suffering from paralysis of the brain, said to have been greatly accelerated by worriet and anxieties .caused by his uncertain and harrAtsing relations >ith Government board*.