Hawke's Bay Times. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1868.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIV, Issue 627, 5 November 1868, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1868.

NitHttts ailtlctus jurare in verba magislri.

Hexrv Miller. —Aa will be seen by advertisement, the barque Henry Miller, Captain Dickson, will sail for Newcastle direct on Saturday. 14th November. Tin-: South, —We have to thank air 'White, steward of the s.s. Allurin', tor liles of papers from Southern j Torts, extracts from which will be found elsewhere. I Exfort of Live Stock. —-The export ot live stock from the Turf "t Napier lor the mouth ending 31st ()ctiith-r, has been as follows :—Cattle, 125 head ; sheep, I,OUI ; jugs, 45. All the above .shipments have | been made to Auckland, j SliliTiNo. Daring the mouth I ending 31st October the number ,'ul vessels entered inwards at the I Port of Napier have been 27, and Jthc departures 24, showing an aggregate tonnage of 3,023 and 2,95 l i respectively. I Exclish Mail.— Tiro s.s. Tararua. with the English Mail via Suez, arrived at T..rt Chalmers at live i o'clock yesterday morning. The; juiord Ashley, due here on Tuesday; j next, will, therefore, bring up the jNapier portion of the mail, j First Wool Snii' for Loxnox. —The barque Henry Miller, at present in this port, has been taken olf I the berth for London, and will leave tor Newcastle direct on the 1 14th. Her place, as first wool ship for London, will be taken up by the ;barque Excelsior, due here from iWellington in a few days. The Traxsit of Mercury.— The transit of the planet Mercury, predicted in the almanacs to occur yesterday, took place last evening shortly after 5. By moans of aj powerful telescope we distinctly observed the impingement upon the disc of the sun of the dark body of, the planet, but light clouds above the western horizon prevented favorable observation.