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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 561, 19 March 1868, Page 3

Lecture by Me Colknso.—We once more remind our readers of the contemplated lecture to-morrow evening at the Council Chamber, at eight o’clock. The Weather.—Dry weather still continues, the rain fallen scarcely having exceeded half an inch. It is astonishing that while the other parts of the Colony have had an excess of wet, Hawkes Bay alone should have to complain of continued drought. The Horse Stealing Cases. —Two cases of horse stealing were heard on Monday last before the .Resident Magistrates Court. The first was that of a horse taken from Waipukurau, about the Ilth February, which was traced step by step to Masterton, when it was found in the possession of a policeman named Donnelly, who had purchased it from the prisoners, John Campbell and James Hughes. The prisoners were further traced to Wellington and Marlborough where they were apprehended through the agency of the Electric Telegraph. The identity of the horse, and iis purchase from the prisoners by Donnelly, having been proved, the prisoners were remanded for the evidence of the owner of horse, who is now at Opitiki. The second case was that of a horse belonging to John Rose, of Clive. This horse, it appears, had been turned out about the 9th, and was found a few days after in possession of the prisoner, James Parker, (of the same place.) Tha horse, it seemed, bad been taken in mistake by the prisoner, who had cimno.nJ it- U - ~ J I J IV VV UUV UU UOU UUUU UUUVICU to take by a third party. This case was dismissed. On Dit.—There is to be no public ball given out of the Government funds on the occasion of the arrival of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, notwithstanding the large sum of money whicli has been expended in the erection of a ball-room. The natives are not to assemble at Auckland, but in the neighoorhood of the Jtiay of Islands and Wangarci. The Prince will land at Auckland, and afterwards take the following route : —From Auckland to the Bay of Islands, thence to the Thames, Maketu, White Island, Napier, Wellington, Wanganui, Christchurch, and Otago. Said an old toper to another one day; “If one swallow makes a summer, what a tropical region your stomach must be, old fellow!”