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The Rev. W. M'Gregor will (D.V.) conduct Divine service at the Port Church at 7 p.m. to-monow. The opening of a Tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites at Meanee is fixed to take place in the Meanee Hall this (Saturday) evening at halfpast 7 o'clock. The steamer Napier, on her arrival from Poverty Bay this morning, went alongside the barque Ballarat, and discharged into that vessel her cargo of wool, consisting of 147 bales. The Daily Southern Cross, Dec. 9, says :—We understand that a woman residing in West-street, Newton, has died suddenly. It appears that she had been seen somewhat under the influence of drink on Thursday evening, and, not being seen going about on the following forenoon, inquiry was made, and she was found to be dead. Dr J. it. Nicholson was called in, but only to find that life was extinct. This was about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The matter was then duly reported to the police, and no doubt an inquest will be heid upon her remains to-day.

The cry for rain is becoming louder and louder at the Thames every day, and according to weather indications, says the Southern Cross correspondent, without any pro).ability of immediate response. The season is indeed a dry one : many wells have ceased to flow, and many others are following their example, and if it were not for the timely supply afforded by the new waterworks the plight of the inhabitants of Grahamstown would be indeed pitiful. More standpipes are however needed and it is to be'hoped that the expressed wishes of the inhabitants both of Shortland and Grabamstow 11. in this respect will be acceded to by the Government. Drinking water being so scarce, it U also superfluous to remark that the supply for mining purposes is lamentably deficient. Several of the up-creek batteries, including the Criterion, and the Moanaiaiari Company's are reduced to half-power. The batteries on the Hat, which obtain a supply from the deep mines and the sea, have not suffered nor are likely to suffer any inconvenience. A few days' steady rain would prove an immense boon to the district

Mr W. H. Webb was a passenger to Auckland by the steamship Nevada on her last ti'ip. Referring to Mr Webb's depat tinefrom Sari Francisco, the News of the World says :—" He will visit New Zealand, at the request of the Government, on business connected v ith his .steamship line. He will also visit Sydney and Melbourne, at the earnest desire of many leading merchants of those citits Mr Webb is sure to receive a hearty welcome from our colonial friends who will find in him a far-sighted business man, fully aware of the great importance of the splendid enterprise which he has inaugurated, and fully determined to cany it out. We feel persuaded that the liberal subsidy granted by New Zealand is only the fore-rnnuer of those which both the United States and the Australian colonies will ere long grant to the steamship line, the establishment of

which on a permament basis must "be of immense reciprocal advantage to both countries." The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser bays: —" It appears £0 be likely now \hat a strong effort will be made during the coming session of the American Congress to secure a proper subsidy for the Webb line of steamers between California and Ansttalia. The New York Chamber of Commerce will, it is said, memorialise Congress on the subject, and by a late telegram it is stated that Mr "Webb had an interview with President Grant on the 15th ult., "when he called attention to the danger of American lines of steamships having to give way to British lines unless something is done by Congress. Tlie failure to obtain a subsidy for the Webb line at the last session was owing to tho wide-spread diili'ce to subsidies generally, and mainly to the fact that an omnibus measure was presented to Congress, asking for grants, coveting large amounts, for a half dozen lines of steamers in every possible quarter. The magnitude of the demand killed the whole. It i« to be hoped that the matter will bo better managed this year.''

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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1199, 16 December 1871, Page 2

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Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1199, 16 December 1871, Page 2

Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1199, 16 December 1871, Page 2

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