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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 771, 21 March 1870, Page 2

Mr Locke proce?ded to the different East Coast settlements by the p.s. Sturt on Thursday last. Seven Flax Machines have been imported into the Province during the last few days from Auckland. George A. Oliver, Esq., has been appointed Revising Officer for the electoral districts of papier and Clive. The Harbor, this morning, presents an unusually bare appearance —the three lighters being the only vessels in port. The next meeting of the Napier Debating Club takes place to-mor-row evening. The following is the subject for debate :—"ls the present system of Provincial Government suited to the requirements of the Colony?" San Francisco Mail Route.— "We have been requested to state that mails for Europe, America, and the West Indies, via San Francisco, will be despatched from Napier by .the s.s. Wellington on Wednesday next, 23rd inst. The postage by this route is just the same as that by way of Suez. The Funeral of the late Mr W. F, Palmer took place on Thursday afternoon last, the attendance being very large. A striking feature in the procession was the presence of nearly a hundred children, belonging to the Sunday Schools and Band of J Tope. The service was impressively conducted by the Rev. G. Morice, and many of those present were affected to tears. In accordance with a wish which had been expressed by the deceased, the hymn which had been sung in the Port Sunday School on the last occasion of his attendance—" Childhood's years are passing o'er us,"—was sung around the grave by the children. Yesterday morning, in the Presbyterian Church, Mr Morice, in preaching from Numb, xxiii, 10, took occasion to refer to the life and labors of the departed elder of the church.