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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 506, 5 September 1867, Page 1

ihe Mail service to the Korth. M, J. o‘Neill, in unking the lion, the Postmaster-General whether it was the intention of the Government to make auj alterations ia the present arrangements for the mail service to the North, said that at present the vessels with the mails usually left Wellington for Auckland and the North on the Ist, Bth, and the 22nd or 23d of tin* month. if the G ivermnent could equalize the intervals of time between tin services, it would be felt as a great convenience and a boon to the public generally.| tie wished to know whether the Government were in a position to make any mod ideation in the exi-ting arrangements. Mr. Hall, felt obliged to the honorable gentleman fur putting the question, us a afforded him an opportunity of explaining the reason for the existing arrangements, .wliicli he admitted were found to be inconvenient, and were not unnaturally comiplained of. 'Die steamers at present arrived in Auckland or th-s Manusau at intervals of nine, seven, thirteen, and two days ; that is to say, there was an interval of only two days between two of the steamers. That arrangement had been in operation about eight mom ns. before that time vessels sailed from Port dial niers at regular ini rvais of seven or day s, aniving tn the Manukau at corres , onuingintervals. Some tuna atier the lust session of the Assembly, the Government gave effect! o the , ecommendation of a select committee, iliac tne two supple meritary services, to Napier on the one side, and Nelson and Taranaki on the oilier, should be abolished. They though, ihat the expense entailed on the public by these services pvas more than the circumstances warranted. One of these supplementary services had carried on to Napier the English mails brought both by the Panamt and Suez mail boats. Tnere was no other service by wli.ch the mails for rapier could be sent on without being detained in Wellington from the 22nd to the 2nd of the next month. On the dis continuance of the supplementary services some special arrangements had to be m ide. Ine English mails for Nelson, Taranaki, and Aueklaud are sent on on the 27tn ol the month. Unless Napier were to be lelt out altogether, it was necessary that a steamer should leave for that place abou; tlie same time, and as the Select Commit tee had decided that the supplementary services were to be discontinued, it was necessary to put back one ol the regain, services lo the 25tii of the month, so that it could take on the English mails In' Napier and Tauranga. That was the reason for the existing arrangement. That involved, of course, a nine tahlo which was found inconvenient to Auckland. He (.Ur. Hall) had under consideration a scheme far sending on lo Napier Hie letter portion of the nidi.s by an overland service. To provide a steam service would involve an expense of £1,500, widen was more than the Government considered they would be juslilied in devoting lo that purpose. lie noped to make such an' arrangement as! would ilo away with any’ reasonable grounds of complaint, an 1 that there would soon be a weekly service from one end of the Colony to the other. He hoped to eliect the objects to which he ha, alluded within a mouths time. J.UE 11 AN KKU PIC V CoAIMITTEE. The report of the bankruptcy Committee is as lohows; —“Your Committee have the honor to report that they have carefully considered the question referred to them, and have arrived at the unanimous conclusion that the best course to be taken is to repeal the existing laws, audio abolish the present system of administration with a view to the adaptation of the Scotch system as amended with the modifications necessary to adapt it to the English jurisprudence in the bill recently introduced in the English Parliament by the law advisers of the Crown. Your Committee have accordingly drafted a bankruptcy bill based upon the English Bill, wit lx the alterations necessary to suit the circumstances ol the Colony, which they recommend should at once be pa.-sed through the House. Your Committee further recommend the immediate abolition of imprisonment for debt, and have prepared a bill to carry out that object, taking as their guide til measure ncently introduced by the same authorities into the English Parliament.”

Tuagedt in the Stmeets oe Kojie.— A communication from Koine, iu tlie LTnivers, gives an account of a sanguinary | quaml which took place in the ihazza o! hrascati, on the Jete day’ of La Madonna del Divino Ainore. An inhabitant of the neighbouring village of (Jrotta-hcrata, on entering the square, was immediately recognised awd addressed by a Frascataa named Bruni, who was on the spot with his two brothers, in these words —“ You gave me a stab with your knife last, year, and now I will give you as good; ” on which he rushed in a transport of fury ou the other, who naturally endeavoured to defend himself, 'ibis scene took place in irout of the principal cafe of the town, where a brigadier, two Zouaves, and a sergeant major of that arm named Lie Quelan, were taking refreshment; a captain of the Balatine guard, named ifihpaui, was also present, the two iaaer in plain clothes, ihis party, in the interest 01

public order, interfered to separate the combatants, bat were in their turn assailed by Drum's two brothers, when a savaga engagement took place, which ended in I ho death of two persons—namely, Bruni. him* seif, allot by the sergeant in self-defence, and the man from GfoUa-Ferrota, who had received six stabs in the breast. One of ilte surviving Fraseatgns wn? arrested

just as ho was taking refuge in the cathedral, with the corpse of his brother in hia arms. Five more of the combatants were badly wounded, and amongst them the seigeant major, but his life is not considered to be in danger.