MILITARY ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 656, 15 February 1869, Page 2

MILITARY ITEMS.

We learn that Lieut.-Colonel Lam-] berfc has been ordered to Wairoa, which district is included in the ISfapier command. This officer is kept actively employed. We believe that he will leave Napier either to-day or to-morrow. Two mounted men are under orders for duty in the Forty-mile Bush, to patrol as far as Palmerston. The usual monthly parade of the Napier Rifle Volunteers will take place to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, at half-past six o'clock. Tt was intimated last Saturday that a parade of Militia and Volunteers would take place on Saturday next, 20th inst., at 6 p.m. A general order has been issued for the whole of the 18th Eegiment to be at once concentrated in Auckland, and to make immediate preparation for embarkation in H.M. transport Himalaya, which is expected to arrive there about the end of this month.

J&ducatiom" Rate.—We learn that a meeting to take into consideration the above rate, will be held this (Monday) evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Oddfellows' Hall. Steamer for Auckland.—The s.s. Star of the South will steam for Auckland this morning, at 9 o'clock.

Colonial Society—We have to! acknowledge the receipt, from Sydney, of two numbers of a new comic magazine, bearing the above title. Gazette.—A Provincial Government Gazette, issued on Thursday, Feb. 11, notifies (1) that Mr Alfred Jarman has been appointed draftsman; (2) that Mrs Carr has been appointed schoolmistress to the Meanee school; (3). that Miss Watt has been appointed schoolmistress to the Waipukurau school; (4) a notification to all persons who may be desirous of bringing out relations or friends to this Province from Great Britain and Ireland; (5) an abstract of receipts and expenditure for the quarter ending 30th September, 1868; and an annual report on the state of the Provincial Hospital, Napier, the number of cases treated, &c, by Thomas Hitchings, Esq., Provincial Surgeon.

The Weather and the Floods. —The weather still continues wild and rainy. On Saturday there was some improvement, but in the evening rain again set in,accompanied by high wind. The floods have been considerable, especially in the Meanee flats, and at Waitangi. Com munication with Meanee was almost entirely suspended on Thursday and Friday, and on Saturday there was a depth of two feet of water on some parts of the road. Cobb's coach armed from Waipawa on Thursday evening, but the journey was difficult, and attended with some risk, especially at Waitangi, where the water reached in some places to the top rail of the fences on each side of the road. No mail was sent up the country on Friday, in consequence of the state of the roads. The Waipawa and Tukituki rivers were im passable on Thursday. Telegraphic communication with was broken on Friday, no doubt in consequence of damage sustained by the line from floods.

Earthquake.—A very smart shock of earthquake was felt at Napier yesterday at 10.20 a.m. It was of an undulatory character, and lasted over a minute. Many people were affected with a sick and dizzy feeling during the time it lasted. The apparent direction of the mo\ement was almost from east to west.