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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 486, 20 June 1867, Page 2

We beg to draw attention to Mr John Stuart's cxtensiv t sale at Havelock fAw da;/, at noon. (See A dvertisement ) The W i:mhi;h.--A cold, seasonal)!-south-wester si ill prevails, with invasions, showers, lint there hus been a marked improvement (Vont what we have lately experienced, still it is too heavy and 100 cold to bo plca'ant to pedestrians.

tin; K.VGl.tsn Mah..— The arrival on Tuesday of the Lord Ashley, llire* days alter date, afforded an op;> t!unity for the transmission of our Suez and Marseilles mails to Wellington, but, of course, they are too lute to be forwarded in the ordinary course ; we presume they will bdespatched via Panama on the Sill July proximo.

Telegraph Poles. —Our readers will noticed in our column? of lute, an rdvci tisement of the General Government, calling for tenders for the supply of telegraph poles along the road from Cast'll Point to Napier. Wo beg to remind nil whom it iu,.v concern that this is the last day on which tenders can be received. (\ ide advertisement). Ellictiox Notice. —To-day, at noon, takes place the nomination for one member of the Provincial Council, to Sll the seat recently vacated by the resignation of T. K, Newton, Esq. We presume that there will bo a candidate for the vacant seat, but "c have not heard of one being spoken of; with any degree of certainty, and the electors seem to exhibit but very little interest in the matter.

, The Plight Bird. —We have recently I noticed extensive (locks of a small bird of ithe linnet kind, which seem to be of recent jarrival from parts unknown, and we are informed by parties to whom wo have | mentioned the fact, that Hawke’s Bay is I not singular in the presence of these little i strangers, but that they are to be seen almost (perhaps quite) all over this Northern Island of the colony, hating been noticed in Wellington and Auckland, where they have received the name of the Blight Bird, from the fact of their destroying all the blight from the fruit trees. They seem to be of a species quite distinct from the linnet of the Mother Country, having several peculiarities, amongst which we may mention a ring of white round the eye, and a different note, which is, however, of a very pleasing nature. One of our contemporaries seems to refer to tin se birds having probably increased from a few imported and let loose in one of the southern provinces. Our contemporary also seems to regard it as the English bird, which we are informed it is not. They hare poweiful and vigilant enemies in the various species of hawk which we have observed in the act of chasing them, but they seem to increase and multiply in spite of all that. If it be tine that the numerous flocks of these birds be the progeny of imported birds, whether from the Jiorue country or some other land, their increase appears something wonderful; and if it le also true that they exterminate the blight from our fruit trees, they are a bles sing in a time of need. We trust that tin legislature w ill see fit to protect these birds from wanton destruction.

The Oroxiti AFFiiK.~?,y the arrirai yesterday from Tauranga there is no further news to hind Jrom Opotiki regarding tht tno missing men, Briggs usd Moore,— New Zealand iii raid, 10th June.