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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1182, 27 November 1871, Page 2

The first, wool ship of the season now graces our noWe Bay with her presence —the clipper barque Ballarat having, yesterday foreuopn, arrived from Auckland. Besides the Ballarat, the barque Rapido and the brig Venus will both load woo] at this port this season, for the London market. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning there was one charge of drunkenness. Being a first offence, and the offender having been locked up since Saturday afternoon, he was dismissed with a caution. The Volunteer Artillery Band give their next open-air concert on Weurj.esday e-ening. As will be seen by the announcement in another column, one of the pieces then to be performed—the '*New Zealand Volunteers' Grand March " —is the work of a local composer. In the rifle, match between the Napier. Riiie Club and the Gteymouth Volunteer Rangers, fired on Saturday last, the latter scored 399 points, thus beating the local team by 24 points. About 11 aim to-day an excising, scene was witnessed under the veranda of one of the Port Aburh'i hotels. A large swarm of bees had taken possession of one of the upper corners of the. veranda, beneath the balcony, to the. no small di-may of the frequenters of the veranda in question, thus ousted from their place of resort. Active measures were taken to dislodge the Lilliputian enemy, and a vigorous vvas executed on a tea-tray—the result being, to use a Yankee term, the. "demoralization" of the, human assailants, and the triumph of the tiny foe. One champion, undaunted, resumed the attack wioh a broom, which he thrust into the stronghold of the. enemy, but perceiving a cloud of irritated insects descending upon him in skirmishing order, he tied, leaving his weapon on the field. The bees being. observed to cluster upon the deserted broom, a ' ; knowing ojie" deftly placed a gin-case over it, and the swarm was ; safely, hived.