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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 573, 30 April 1868, Page 3

The Mails.—We (Evening News, 23th April.) learu by the arrival of the Falcon that the Suez mail had not been telegraphed at the Bluff up to the morning of the 20th inst. A large steamer, supposed to be the Kaikoura, from Panama, was passed on the 21st inat. in the Straits. Auckland Reoatta.—The Weekly Herald of the 25th April says ;—We are to have our annual regatta on the 29th of the present month. The programme Is certainly more attractive than in late preceding years. The Earl of Pembroke is President. The prizes are considerable, both in number aud amount, and the sports comprise canoe races, in which our aboriginal friends will be competitors. Shipment of Casks fob Naples fbox Hobart Town.—We extract as follows from the Hobart Town Mercury, of the 23th March :—‘‘Some well-made casks, of the silver wattle, partly together and partly in shocks, have been shipped to Napier, New Zealand, by Messrs. Belbin & Bowdell, of this city. This was the first shipment of the kind, and the casks wore intended to receive tailow.” Acclimatisation. —Wa learn from the Hobart Town Mercury that “on the 4th March Mr Graves, the hon, secretary of our Acclimatisation Society, shipped by the Wild Wave, for the kindred society at Dunedin, a pair of the brush kangaroo and about 200 parrots, of the Rosalia kind, under the especial and gratuitous care of Captain Fisher.” Accident. — w e learn from the Evening News, of the 25th April, that "a very sad accident occurred about 5 o’clock this morning to a youth named Tbos. Franklin, an employee at the Herald office. Whilst standing upon a box, attending to the machine, his baud slipped into it, and was terribly crushed. Dr Nicholson was immediately seat for, and applied the usual remedies, but we leara that the nature of the injuries are very severe, the fingers being broken aud mangled to a considerable extent. Accidentsfrom machinery are not, fortunately, of very frequent occurrence in Auckland, but when they do happen they are usually of no light character.” Dickens very seldom writes. Ho dictates walking around the room. The volume* which enchant the world aro phouograpbically taken down by his secretary