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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1350, 15 June 1872, Page 3

The Evening Post, June 4, says : An amusing scene occurred at one of Mr R. J. Duncan’s auction sales yesterday. Acting under instructions from the Provisional Trustee in bankruptcy, Mr Duncan offered for sale the Hutt omnibus, horses, and plant in the insolvent estate of Walter Brown. The sale brought together a large number of spectators, and Mr Duncan mounted the bus for the purpose of commencing the sale, but he was interrupted by Mr Ollivier who, on behalf of several credi tors, protested against the sale proceeding. Mr Duncan and his client, acting under the advice.of Mr Borlase, proceeded to sell, and did so after some discussion. The whole pioceeding was so much enjoyed by the spectators that they at last became excited, and a number of them seizing the bus loaded as it was with the auctioneer, Trustee in bankruptcy, rival lawyers, and a number of other gentlemen, quickly run it out of the yard, down the street, where the bus and precious freight were allowed to remain. The Adelaide Assembly has expressed am opinion that a small tax should be imposed upon sheep coming into South Australia from New South Wales. Tkc Wanganui Chronicle stales that the West mere blockhouse was burned to the ground on the 2nd inst. Some workmen engaged in road-making have occupied it for- some time past, but we are not in possession of an} r particular s as to the origin of the tire. It will be remembered that this blockhouse was lor some time Colonel Whitmore’s head quarter’s while preparing for his last successful campaign against Titokowaru. Another Mongolian invasion is threatened. The Tnapeka Times says : “We have received authentic information that an immigration ot Chinese on a scale of unprecedented magnitude —at least for New Zealand —will set in to Otago next summer. The collection being made for the erection of a. Chinese immigration barracks in Dunedin seems confirmatory of this information.” The New York Yacht Club is making preparations to send a squadron of its be«t yachts to Russia next summer, to participate in an international fete.