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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 547, 30 January 1868, Page 2

; Tn.i-i;’iapihc.—Tenders ate invited in ‘the Weyingtou papers for the erection and , maintenance, for twelve uio' iiis, opaline ;of telegraph between Foma Valiev atid l’ojragahaii. Til is will bo another stop to* ! wards completing communication with the ■southern pans of the Col my. Tue EumiQCAKES IX THE WEST Ixl'H.'s.—The Lord Ashley brings intelligence that earthquake shocks were still causing great destruction in the West locli •. It seems, however, that tiio loss cl iiu; at St Thomas’s lias been greatly exaggerated, and the latest accounts set it down r.t thirty. The subscriptions in lingland for tiio relief of the sufferers amounted, on the 27;a .November, to .Cod-10. Safety i-i- Dr Livxxstsxoxr. —A telegram bas been received by the Foreign - .'luce which will bo hailed everywhere with '.ensure. It comes virtually from Zanzibar, I? dated September tS, j.nd slates that r -li.'.i !e information h-;d reached that place of Dr 1 ivingstono having been seven .uon:i;s previously at lUuruvcn, on his voyage towards me north-oast, passing to ihe v. e.-t of Lake T-iukaailka. When the des; a'.rh was s -t oil', Mr I” u--chill was c.bj .l to proc. cl to the coast to obtain hirilicr iniennaiion. If it be true that Dr Li'-iug.-toue was raaily at the pNce uiei-t:oned xu Ala ch lust, it is quite clear that the story of his death was a fabrication of the men who ..■ra.e»ed to have seen him attacked. Ax accid.-nt he# occurred on the Arakt.ra Fiver on t;.c 2nd in#'., by which iivo persons lost their lives. —Urey Fiver Argus, 7th January. At last the work of driving the piles for the river embankment by steam Las been commenced, one of the donkey engines having started work on Saturday. The sa-ing in time and money by the use of steam is something considi rable, the piles costing fully three times us much by hand, and occupying three times the time in driving, in a few days a second engine w ill be set agoing.—Drey Fiver Argus, 7th. •J anuary. Joxaxhax Howard, a private of the Military Train Corps, who absconded from the camp at Woolwich with h;s master's horse, and was eaptu ed at Wakefield, (an account of whose exploit appeared in last Monday’s issue), has been tried by general court msriial at Aldershot, and sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment.