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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 707, 9 August 1869, Page 2

Major Withers, we learn, took his departure for Wairoa overland yesterday morning. Importation op Breadstuffs.— 845 bags oats, 25 tons and 150 bags flour, and 53 sacks wheat, have been imported during last week. Seed Oats.—The ketch Angelina, from Lyttelton, arrived in pore on Saturday last with a cargo of seed oats consigned to Mr J. H. Vautier, and comprising prime samples of Canadian and Tartarian* The Earthquake.—By a paragraph in another column from the Wellington Independent, it will be seen that the smart shock on Wednesday morning last was felt at Wellington exactly at the same time as at Napier. The Teleoaph.— Tenders (receivable up to noon this day) are invited for the supply and delivery of 250 telegraph poles, more or less, on the Taupo road, between Tupurupuru (near Turanga Kumu), and Itunansra, the commencement of the Kaingaroa plains. The Otago Daily Times Correspondence.—Our late strictures on the correspondence from Napier in the Otago Daily Times has excited the ire of the gentleman who is responsible for the same, and who has vented his indignation in the columns of our local contemporary. It is not probable that we should have noticed this, but for a further instance of his powerful imaginative faculty, in attributing our paragraph (or "article," as he terms it) to a gentleman who certainly knew nothing of the matter. We could, with very slight exercise of imagination, depict the person who, no doubt, is the author of the highly-colored correspondence alluded to. We fancy a nice old gentleman, v ith " plenty of money and nothing to do," taking his morning constitutional, his hands behind him, and conversing on the subjects to which he refers—very possibly making them "the chief topic of conversation " in his extremely limited circle; but it"does not follow that such is the case beyond it. He says now that if the Waipawa " programme was not carried out, it was from no fault of the projectors." Of course not, but what he said in his correspondence was that it had been carried out. We also know that about a month previously the Napier boys did consume a quantity of lireworks, in honor of her Majesty's birthday, but we have to learn that any political significance was involved in the act. Again, fireworks were some time afterwards consumed in honor of the officers and men of the 18th, when it was supposed that they were on the point of leaving Napier. In the case, we think, of those who ha've spare cash to devote to this object, they should wait and see for what the Fox government will give us cause to rejoiee, when it will be quite time to come out with a grand display of fireworks. As for the demonstration in " the second town in the Province," the following, from the Herald of the 13th July, will be a sufficient contradiction : —" The recent ministerial change must be a subject of universal congratulation, but not the slightest excitement has existed in this township. I believe a private individual has made a futile attenpt to get up a sensation, but signally failed. A few pops and bangs were a poor pretence for a display of fireworks, and the effigies would probably have been burnt, had they not, with appropriate decorum, walked off in a moist mysterious manner, to the utter discomfiture of their proprietor, but to the groat satisfaction of every sensible person in Waipaw T a."