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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 470, 15 April 1867, Page 2

Fruit. —A choice lot of apples and quin« ecs, we observe, are for sale ou board the cutter ‘Agnes,’ at the wharf. PruAiiA Block.—A Government land sale lakes place to-morrow (Tuesday) at noon, in the Crown Lands Olllce, when some 40 Sections in the Pukaha Block, adjoining ti e Township of Havelock will ba oli'ered to public competition. Suez Mail.—The Lord Ashley leave# ■ Napier to-day with the English Mail via jSuez, —the mails closing at-'ll am. at th* I Branch Ol’ico Shnkespearo-road and at 3 2 io'clock noon at the Chief Oiiice. Eastern jSpit. This is the first time that the return Suez mail leaves us before the Panama mail has come to hand. Kopu.—We sincerely regret to learn of the demise of this well-known Ma .ri chief at To Wuiroa. on Wednesday last, April 10. Kopu was, at the time of his death, and had been tor a length of time previously, a good friend to the European | population, and his example no doubt was he means of keeping within the bounds of peace a large number of the Native popuation. The actual services rendered by Kopu in tlie field have-be< n considerable—the last of which will not soon be forgotten by the people of Napier. We refer to ilia -pi ited engagement at Omarunui on ilia l.th of October. 1860, where the departed K.ipu and our other faithful ally Ihaka •Viianga, excelled in personal valor, even if their followers did not do quite so much as they might have been expected. Wa hope lo be placed in possession of soma | particulars of the lust days of Kopu.

Taue-anga.—Another Fight at Fotokva. —The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, under date March 30, write# as follows: News arrived last evening that ou; forces under Major M'Dounell had, on Thursday, attacked a strong pa near Katorua camp, and !md taken it—the Han-haui being beaten out of it with great loss. Many were kill d and more wounded; nine bodies were picked up and interred ; (hey were recognised as being from the Waikato. Our people came out of the affair scatheless Those inside the pa, ou its being approached by the Arawas and Volunteers, and challenged, said they were friends, and had come from Waikato to assist against the Uau-haus. On tint the Europeans ra»hed in with the result abovs stated. The Atlantic Telegraph.—The Atlantic telegraph was siieut from Monday, the 21st, till Saturday, the 2Slh January. Th® Spectator, in noticing the matter, Isays;—"The Atlantic Telegraph has been silent since Monday in consequence of a great snow-storm which broke a land cable on the American side, but the Atlantic Cable itself is uninjured. We wish that its silence were less unimportant. People who thirst to know the last price of gold and Five-Twenties are m suspense ; but a# regards political news or what stands for it, j the silence has been a change for the better jA ice-saw of baseless rumors aoout tli? j progress of the inquiry into the; reasons for I impeachment is the le»s objectionable tha i longer it is detained in New \ ork,”. , _