Untitled

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 795, 13 June 1870, Page 2

The s g. St. Kilda will steam for Wellington this day at 10 a.m. The s.r. Star of the South, from Auckland, may be hourly expected. The sale of Elsthorpe, advertized for this day at noon, has been postponed until further notice. A meeting of the Hawke's Bay Total Abstinence Society will take place to-morrow at 7.30 p.m. The inward mails via San Francisco had not arrived at Auckland up to the evening of the 7th inst. We are glad to be able to state I hat the schooner Three Brothers has arrived safely at Wairoa, and corn pleted discharge of cargo. To-morrow, at 12 o'clock, unless previously redeemed, a sale of impended horses and 1 pig will take place at the Meanee sale yards. The buoy moored off the Auckland rock drifted from it* position on Wednesday last. It is now off the bar, and will be picked up to-day.

Colonel Whitmore was a passenger hence by the s.s St. Kilda to Poverty Bay on the 2nd inst., and returned to Napier by that vessel on Saturday. One effect of the late heavy weather has been the closing up of the original entrance to the inner harbor. The Pilot will take soundings on the first fine day. Erratum. —In the Council report in our last issue, an awkward mistake occurred. In the first column of the third page, the third and fourth lines of the last paragraph, the word " Mangatarata " was substituted for " Maraekakaho." Fatal Accident. —We have this morning to record an accident of a very painful character which occurred last evening at Tareha's Bridge, the circumstances of which, as we are informed, were as follows ; —Mr Thomas Potter, butcher, a young man well known in Napier, was standing at the step of the toll-house about 9 p.m., talking to Mr Gilligan, the toll-keeper, when a flight of ducks passed. The toll keeper remarking that "there was a chance for a shot," loaded a fowling-piece with shot, but being called away, leaned the gun against the door (or the step) without having discharged it. A moment after lie heard a report, and leturning found that the gun had gone off, wounding Mr Potter in the lower part of the abdomen. He ran for Mr M'Murray, and Dr. Russell was sent for, but medical a-sisstance was of no avail, and the unfortunate young man, after lingering till about 20 minutes to 1 o'clock this morning, expired. Narrow Escape from Drowning. —About 6 p.m. on Thursday last a \ery narrow escape from drowning occurred in the entrance to the harbor. Mr H. Beukers, pf the Perry Hotel, and a man named Charles Newman, belonging to the Armed Constabulary, started from the Eastern Spit about the time mentioned, in a small boat belonging to the former, for the purpose of crossing over to the other side—the boat also containing a half-hogshead of beer. The tide was strong ebb, and a heavy fresh from the Meanee was running down. In crossing the current, the boat by some means getting broadside on to the sea, was swamped, and carried swiftly out towards the breakers. Upon the accident being discovered on shore, Mr Kraeft, HarborMaster, and a crew of four men, immediately put off in a boat belonging to Mr Symes, and succeeded in picking up the two men, in a thoroughly exhausted condition. A few moments later, and they would have met with a watery grave. We believe that neither the boat noi the beer have been recovered.