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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 739, 29 November 1869, Page 2

■ Just as we go to press, the Star of the South has made her appearance outside. The Case of Te Waka.--We have been desired to publish a more detailed report of this case than appeared in our last issue. As it possesses some public interest, we comply with the request, and the report appears in another column.

j The Late Horse-stealing Case The men Floyd and Hampton, who 'were apprehended on the charge of [having committed this offence, were j brought up on Thursday in the Resident Magistrate's Court, and J committed for trial at the next icriminal sittings of the Supreme Court. Colonial Journalism.—The wellconducted weekly journal the "Tuapeka Press," Otago, has retired from the field, having sold its interest to its contemporary, the " Tuapeka Times." Its late proprietors have removed their plant to another part of the same province, and have already started a new paper, " The Cromwell Argus." We are glad to see our contemporary, "The Echo/' of Dunedin, in the field again; its publication having been long suspended in consequence of the charge of libel brought against the enterprising proprietor, Mr Henm'ngham, hy Mr Driver. "The Echo" appears in an enlarged and improved foi m, and is published weekly. We wish it every success. The last mail from Auckland brought us a single cojry of the new paper —'* The Auckland Daily News." It is well got up, and appears an independent and free spoken journal. It is a supporter of Mr Gillies, and is valuable to show " both sides," as the rest of the press in that Province, with the single exception of the Thames Advertiser, is in the Williamson interest, l