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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1134, 30 September 1871, Page 2

The steamer Wellington, with the southern portion of the English Mail, will leave Wellington for the Manukau at noon to-morrow. A new Oddfellows' Hall in Auckland has just been completed, and was to have been opened on Tuesday evening last, by a dinner and a ball. The Ot-ago Daily Times states that a "heathen Chinee" has left Dunedin for New Plymouth in search of fungus and old metal. The Wellington Independent, Sept. 29, says : —Albert Hall, the poor boy who received a kick from a horse at the Hutt on the day of diivingthe first pile of the new bridge, has already been reported as having succumbed to the injuries which he received, but he survived until yesterday morning, when he died ab ten o'clock, lock-jaw having set in. An inquest will be held at eleven o'clock at the Mechanics' Institute at the Hutt. A partv organised by one or two public-spirited gentlemen in Te Papa (Tauranga) was intended to start for Kaimai on Saturday last, for the purpose of prospecting for gold which is known to exist there. That portion of the country has always been highly spoken of by persons who have "seen the various gold fields of New Zealand. The place is a spur of the great Coro mandel range, and at one portion of it the hills form a kind of amphitheatre, at the foot, of which there is supposed to be a large deposit of the precious metal,