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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 496, 29 July 1867, Page 1

Veby Probable (?) —The Nelson Co lonist is responsible for the following anecdote;—As an instance of the bad weather and the state of some of the Wellington roads, we hear that in the vicinity of the residence of the Premier, a vouno lady, while attempting to cross the’street became so embedded in mud that the operation of‘digging out’ hud to be effected before she was released. Steam Subsidies. —The Wellington Tn-i dependent, "23rd July, is glad to announce 1 that the New Zealand Steam Navigation j Company have obtained the contract fori carrying mails on the East and West! coasts, for the next six months on remunerative terms. Their present tender which was for £l2O a month for each service is an advance of £2OO a month on the subsidy formerly received. Eakxh Wo km —A party of settlers recently engaged in making a road from Komokoriki to Mahurangi, Auckland, turned up an earth-worm five feet long. The truth of this was attested by many of the settlers of Komokoriki, who measured the same. Theft from thk Aucexakd Museum. Some visitor to the above institution quietly decamped with a small greenstone axe-head, and & large picoa of a very trampares* gum.