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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 446, 13 December 1866, Page 2

English Mail. —We would remind country readers that the English Mail for transmission vis Suez closes at Napier, at the Chief Post Office, at 3 p.m. on Saturday next, 15th inst., by P.,N.Z., and A.R.M. Company’s a.s. Lord Ashley. 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, &0., by the Panama route, unless specially ordered otherwise. Napiee Building Society. —We would direct attention to the special general meeting of the above Society to be held at the office, in the Government Buildings, this (Thursday) evening, at 8 o’clock, to consider the treasurer's opposition to the resolutions of the committee.

General Government Gazettes.— Two New Zealand Gazettes have recently been published one on the 24th, and another on the 27th November. The former contains an order respect- J ing the regulation of telegrams. The latter con-i tains a proclamation bringing within the absolu-a tion of “ Indemnity Act, 1866,” the Act whereby J at Opotiki, the Margaret cutter was seized bv® Major St. John; also, a proclamation appointing . Messrs F. F. Ormond, S. Thorp, and G. J. Bussell, a board of medical officers for carrying out the provisions of the “ Military Pensions Act 1866 the granting of letters patent to 0. J. Pownal, of the Thames, for improvements in the preparation of flax ; the appointment of Charles Cowan, M.D., to be honorary assistant surgeon to the Auckland Troop E.C.Y. j the resignation of Captain B. Peacock, Auckland militia. Gratuities to Masters or llnsubsidizbo Vessels carrying Mails.— We observe from a General Government Gazette, published on the 27th November, that the following regulations under the Post Office Act, 1858, will take effect from the first day of January next.—* 1 Gratuities shall be paid to masters of unsubsidized vessels on mails despatched to any place out.of the colony at the rate of one penny per letter or packet, not including newspapers. Gratuities shall be paid to masters of unsubsidized vessels on mails despatched from any post-office in any province within the colony to any other post-offiee without the said province but within the colony, at the rate of one halfpenny per letter or packet not including newspapers. Gratuities shall be paid to the masters of unsubsidized vessels on mails con- , veyod from any post-office within any province to any other post-office within the same province, or to or from any post-office within the colony and any vessel lying in any port or outside of any port, but not being more than six miles from such port, at the rate of one farthing per letter or packet not including newspapers.”

Hosbibm!, rr Tbue. —We (Southern Crow) have been favored with the following extract from a private letter, dated Bussell, November 24, which may be of interest:—"There has been an affair at Kaikqhe; some ten men, headed by the Assessor, chasing and shooting a man, whom, when dead, they disembowelled. The murderers have absconded; but as influential people are concerned, trouble may arise from it. The pakehas are not in any way implicated. Mr Clarke, of Waimea, may manage to keep the natives from fighting."

The Gotibsok.— H.M. ss. Challenger, Commodore Bochefort MacGaire, arrived in harbor last evening, from Wellington via Tauranga and the Kawau. She brought to Tauranga his Excellency Sir George Grey and staff, and the Governor finding all quiet there, proceeded on to the Kawau, where he remains. The. Challenger will return on Wednesday; after coaling, and convey his - Excellency back to the South via Tauranga, so it is evidently his intention not tb visit Auckland.—New Zealand HerAld, 7th December.