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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 661, 4 March 1869, Page 2

The Provincial Government Of fices will be closed throughout today and tomorrow, and from twelve o'clock on Saturday. This Day the annual treat to the children connected with the Band of Hope and the Presbyterian Sunday Schools, will come off in Mr Sturm's paddock, which has been kindly lent for the occasion. The Napier Races commence this day, and will be held this year in Mr Heslop\s paddock at Puketapu, the Meance course being unfit owing to late heavy rains. It will be seen by advertisement that Cobb's Coaches will run to the course on each of the three days, landing passengers inside! the gate. Return Tickets, we observe, are only ten shillings each. The coaches will leave the Spit at 9-30 a.m. The "Wreck of the Ida Zeigler was disposed of by public auction on Monday last, by Messrs Routledge, Kennedy & Co., and realised £52 3s in all, as follows :•• Lot I—Remnants of hull, spars, ropes, rigging, boiler, engine, distilling apparatus, &c.—LeQuesne ... £26 0 0 Lot 2—Anchors and chains—Warnes... 5 0 0 Lot 3—Life-boat and oars—Kinross ... il 0 0 Lot 4—Stores, tanks, and wool-screws —LeQuesne 9 10 0 Lot s—l pig, 2 sheep—LeQuesne 0 13 0 £52 3 0 An inquiry into the wreck of the late ship Ida Zeigler was held at the Custom-house on Tuesday last, a report of which appears in another The usual inquiry at the Resident Magistrate's Court will, it is understood, be held on or about Tuesday next, Mr J ohnson, of Wellington, will, we believe, act as Nautical Assessor, and may be expected to arrive in Napier by the s.s. Wellington on Saturday next. New Zealand Bonds.—According co the New Zealand Advertiser, the Go\ eminent has been informed, by the mail of the 2nd January, that a further conversion of New Zealalid bonds has been effected to the amount of £111,250, as under : General Government Bonds £53,500 Auckland ditto 3,750 Taranaki ditto 250 Canterbury ditto 43,600 Otago ditto 10,150 £111,250 Imported Sheep.—On Sunday last, the s.s. Ahuriri brought up a shipment of very valuable sheep, transhipped from the steamship Tararua. These sheep are from the flock of A. S Murray, Esq., of Adelaide, and are imported by Mr Burnett, of Poraite, with the view of forming a stud flock. The Ahuriri also brought up some valuable long woolled rams from Wellington for sale. The above shipment was all landed without the loss of a single sheep, notwithstanding the strong N.E. gale and heavy sea the Ahuriri had encountered on the voyage; and this fact goes far to prove the fitness of this favorite steamer as a stockcarrying vessel.