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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1091, 10 August 1871, Page 2

The as. Napier, from Wairoa, was in .sight v*hen we went to press. Mails for Wellington and Southern Forts, per s.s. Rangatira, close at the Post Office, Port Ahuriri, at 1.45 p.m. to-morrow (Friday.) A correspondent at Waipukurau has sent us an account of a melancholy accideat which occurred at that place on Tuesday last. An old man named Smith, a tailor, working for Mr Drower, but living on the opposite side of the river, in the Maori Bush, had been drinking during the day in question at the local hotel, and on crossing the river to return home was drowned. When hi* body was found, a bottle of brandy was found in his breast pocket. He is described as being a quiet inoffensive man, whose only failing was his fondness for liquor. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before R. Stuart, Esq., J.P, and J. A. Smith, Esq., J.P., Edward Allen, charged with stealing a meerschaum pipe, valued at 12s 6d, from Mc Hooper, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to thiee months imprisonment with hard labor. There is little doubt that the prisoner committed the theft in order to be lodged and provided for at the expense of the public. James Scott, who described himself as a frutcber, was brought up charged with vagrancy, having been found sleeping in a quarry early this morning. He said that he was without money, and had as yet been unable to find employment, though he had been three days in Napier. He had left Canterbury, being out of employment, and had gone to Wellington, where he stayed eleven days, until his money was gone, but was still unable to find work. He came on to Napier where he sold his blankets for 10s, and had since been living on the proceeds.--Dismissed with a caution.