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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 761, 14 February 1870, Page 2

A meeting of the Napier Land and Building Society, No. 2, is announced for this evening at 8 o'clock. The lion. Mr Fox, accompanied by Mrs Fox, was a passenger by the s.s. Rangatira from Wellington on Thursday last. The Napier Bojs' School (undenominational), to be conducted by Mr Grant, recently arrived from Auckland, will be opened at nine o'clock this morning. A smart shock of earthquake was felt in Napier and its vicinity at a quarter to three o'clock yesteiday morning, its apparent direction being from east to we^-t. "General Government Economy. —Our attention has been drawn to the fact that the present Government —with a view, perhaps, to give the matter the greater publicity—have published a long advertisement relating to the new mail service twme over in the last issue but one of the Hawke's Bay Herald. The only difference between the two advertisements is that to the first one is appended a long time table, for which the other refers the reader to the Chief Post Office, Napier. The latest news with reference to the three prisoners who escaped from Napier Jail on Sunday, 6th instant, i« to the effect that ihey had been seen in the vicinity of Waipawa, and had been fired upon by a constable who was in pursuit. Further news is anxiously looked for,