VOUCHER AND DUPLICATE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 653, 4 February 1869, Page 2

VOUCHER AND DUPLICATE.

To the Editor of the Bawkes Bay Times. I Sir, —Would you please niakffl room in your open column for the. following:— VOUCHER. " Mr. O. L. W. Bousfield, who is designed, ;, we. believe, Surveyor-General to the forces," &,' — Vide Haioke's Bay Herald, 2nd February. ! DUPLICATE.

" A certain Editor, who is designated, tM believe, Purveyor-General to the alarmists, what-V j ever that may mean, but whose real occupaU: I appears to be that of* pufßng Mr M'Lean up:: i every possible occasion, for which, doubtless, Is" . ; | is well paid by a suffering Province, has publish I letters in which Colonel Whitmore and otbers (unO fairly) liave come in for a laige share of abtufl Colonel Whitmore, who at one time was extolleiS day after day (ad nauseam) by this very Editc||a (when working with the M'Lean party, Omara;/! date, October, 1866) is, now that Colonel Wiii % more is serving the Colony in preference to sen I ing the M'Lean party, cried down as everything that is imperfect in a General and unamiable as ill private individual! '*' Yours, • | " A Roland," «fcc

Auckland Punch. —We have rt 1 ceived two more numbers of this p riodical, but must reserve our notic; I * :.,Jt! ; :: Tne usual fortnightly parade c ', Militia and "Volunteers, we won! remind our readers, takes placa o: 1 Saturdaj T next, at 6 p.m.

Major-General Sir T. Chut; • K.C.8., accompanied by Lieut.-Co. Page, was a passenger by the <u - Wellington on Monday, from Auci land, lie landed in Napier, and ii spected the detatchment of the 18t Royal Irish, under Captain Wit after which he returned on boas and resumed his voyage to Welliif 5 I ton. We hear that he instruct* 'jthe garrison to hold themselves; {readiness to proceed to Aucklanffl Thirteen of the 18th, in charge t||. four prisoners, left for Auckland i the Star of the South on Monds night. Supposed Death by DrowniO —We regret that the late flood 9 jthe Meanee river has, to all appeaSf! ance, been attended with a ; accident. On Friday a man nanifjjH-' ; Alexander Mansell, who had b«|| | engaged with others in bringii.jj j timber from the Pohui Bush, .vfrn employed in saving the posts whit™ were floating down the river. J9f pbout five o'clock he left his maifl and went lower down the river, atS has not been heard of since. Theli is too much reason to fear thatH , tatal accident has occurred. It unstated that, though usually a sotS man, he had been drinking on B«|

Middle Rakghtikei.—We observe tl the Rifle Volunteers of the above disti have been disbanded.

Mb "W. Bishop.—This gentleman hi we learn, gone officially on a trip to 1' bourne, in his capacity of Managing Di? tor of the New Zealand Steam JSavigati< Company, to see if some arrangements $ not be mado with Messrs. M'Meck* Blackwood, which may result in mut» benefit to both proprietors.—Welling Jan. 30.